Learning through The Duke Students will learn about the important contributions made by Duke Ellington to the field of...		Defining Jazz Music These lessons and activities explore sound and how sound is defined in jazz.
Can You Hear a Story? Students will explore creating moods with music, analyze a story, and the create a musical...		Jazz and Math: Rhythmic Innovations Learn about the use of fractions in music.
Assessment of Learning Through "The Duke" Lesson Assessment sheet for Learning Through The Duke lesson.		Jazz and Math: Improvisation Permutations In this lesson students explore how many different rhythmic combinations can be improvised in a...
Interactive Timeline Students will explore ragtime music and gain an understanding of its development in relation to...		Student Guide to Web Research Learning to Read on the Web Lesson plan 3, about reading on the Web, in a series for middle-school students learning to use...
A Jazz Talk Show Students will explore the lives of various jazz musicians, studying the social and historical...		Student Guide to Web Research Lesson 3: Learning to Read on the Web Deliver a lesson plan that will help you teach students to read on the Web, a skill that is...
Classical Music: Improving Children's Development Classical music has been touted as improving memory, emotion, mood, even test scores. Whether...		Web Research Lesson 3: Learning to Read on the Web Lesson plan 3, about reading on the Web, in a series for middle-school students learning to use...
Tap Your Feet Students will practice following a pattern and become familiar with the concept of beat in...		Virtual Field Trip: Underground Railroad Take your students on a Virtual Field Trip through Underground Railroad sites in New Bedford,...
All About Wolves Rubric Use this scoring guide in conjunction with the "All About Wolves" lesson. This rubric outlines...		Exploring Suffragists Students will do research to learn about suffragists, those who fought for the right of women...
Exhibit Scoring Guide Rubric for use with the Visualizing Jazz Scenes lesson.		Sample the Solar System Deliver a lesson plan that presents a research project on the solar system.
Visualizing Jazz Scenes of the Harlem Renaissance Students read and respond to literary selections that either portray the Harlem jazz scene or...		75-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Voice Heard Again Read about the re-creation of the sound that a Parasaurolophus dinosaur made.