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Lessons

Homestuck Masterclass

An advanced exploration of Homestuck's universe, focusing on Sburb/Sgrub game mechanics, Troll hierarchy, classpect taxonomy, and complex narrative timelines.

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Internet Alchemy

A highly niche, technical trivia lesson analyzing the creative paths, obscure internet lore, and overlapping fanbases of cult figures Ryan Ross, Toby Fox, and Andrew Hussie. Designed for adult or college-level pop culture and game design fans.

Lenny

Beat and Breath

A comprehensive poetry and music production unit for adult HSED students. It integrates poetry analysis, hip-hop lyricism, emotional self-expression (SEL), and digital audio production concepts into a cohesive, print-ready student workbook and teacher guide.

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V Lundgren

Feverish Quill

A creative lyric analysis and songwriting lesson exploring Ryan Ross's influential role as a lyricist in the mid-2000s alternative and baroque-pop music scene. Students analyze his verbose, theatrical style and write their own historically-inspired lyrics.

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Lyricist Lab

A comprehensive lesson that breaks down the structural, rhythmic, and poetic elements of hip-hop and rap lyrics. Students learn complex rhyming, flow cadence, figurative imagery, and wordplay, then plan and write a complete 16-bar verse using highly visual scaffolding.

VL

V Lundgren

Piano Scale Foundations

A lesson dedicated to learning the fundamentals of major scales on the piano, beginning with pentatonic scales. Contains an interactive multi-page mini booklet with keyboard coloring, staff notation trace-and-write, and fingering guides.

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eraymond

Maritime Melodies

An exploration of nineteenth-century Portsmouth shipyards through historical sea shanteys, teaching upper elementary students about rhythm, labor history, and call-and-response song structures.

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jconnors

Sonic Chronicles

A comprehensive digital music portfolio project where students curate, analyze, and reflect on their musical creations using DAWs, notation tools, and audio recordings. This unit guides students through selecting their best work, performing deep artist analysis, and presenting a professional digital portfolio.

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jditomaso

Magic Kingdom Learning

A Disney-inspired interdisciplinary choice board and support materials for 2nd grade. Students explore math, language arts, art, music, and science through engaging, magical challenges that promote agency and creativity.

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Jennifer.Beiers

Rhythm Rebels

An energetic introduction to syncopation and rhythmic complexity where students learn to identify, count, and compose 'off-beat' patterns. Students explore how shifted accents create groove in modern and historical music styles.

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Hector Parra

Scatstep Masterclass

Курс з екстремального скату та сучасного музичного продакшну, що поєднує абсурдну фонетику з агресивними бітами (phonk, hardbass, trap).

Lenny

The Hidden Hertz

An advanced exploration of microtonal music, covering the physics of pitch, tuning systems beyond 12-TET, and practical experimentation with quarter-tones and just intonation.

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jditomaso

Materials

Sylladex Showdown Key

The teacher answer key for the 'Homestuck Masterclass' trivia lesson. Contains the correct responses to all 12 questions, alongside detailed historical and creative explanations (the 'Lore Archive') for each answer, plus grading rubrics.

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Sylladex Showdown Quiz

The student trivia quiz sheet for the 'Homestuck Masterclass' lesson. Contains 12 highly advanced, technical questions about SBURB game mechanics, hemospectrum hierarchy, classpect taxonomy, and time loop paradoxes, styled in a retro PC terminal aesthetic.

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Web Lore Showdown Key

The teacher answer key for the 'Internet Alchemy' trivia lesson. Contains the correct responses to all 14 questions, alongside detailed historical and creative explanations (the 'Lore Archive') for each answer, plus grading rubrics.

Lenny

Web Lore Showdown Key

The teacher answer key for the 'Internet Alchemy' trivia lesson. Contains the correct responses to all 14 questions, alongside detailed historical and creative explanations (the 'Lore Archive') for each answer, plus grading rubrics.

Lenny

Web Lore Showdown Quiz

The student trivia quiz sheet for the 'Internet Alchemy' lesson. Contains 14 highly niche, technical questions about Ryan Ross, Toby Fox, and Andrew Hussie, styled in an elegant 'zine' or 'print archive' aesthetic.

Lenny

Beat and Breath Teacher Guide

A 3-page teacher facilitation and pedagogical guide with adult HSED instruction strategies, free DAW setup tutorials, SEL writing safety tips, and complete answer keys/student exemplars.

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V Lundgren

Beat and Breath Workbook

A 5-page printable workbook for adult HSED students combining poetry, hip-hop lyricism, SEL, and digital music production. Features reading passages, analysis, graphic organizers, and structured drafting sheets.

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V Lundgren

Feverish Quill Teacher Guide

A 1-page teacher reference guide for the Feverish Quill lesson. It includes historical and cultural context on the mid-2000s emo/baroque-pop scene, an answer key/discussion guide for the student worksheet, a songwriting rubric, and pedagogical extension activities.

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Feverish Quill Worksheet

A 2-page print-ready lyric analysis and songwriting worksheet for students. It explores Ryan Ross's two distinct songwriting eras—the theatrical baroque-pop of 'A Fever You Can't Sweat Out' (2005) and the retro psychedelic folk-pop of 'Pretty. Odd.' (2008). Includes context, two comparative lyric studies, analytical questions, and a songwriting template.

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Rhyme Blueprint Workbook

A 10-page expanded student workbook featuring visual graphic organizers, fill-in-the-blank rhythm charts, slant-rhyme matching activities, punchline generators, and a step-by-step drafting layout for a 16-bar rap verse.

VL

V Lundgren

Pentatonic Pioneers Scale Booklet

An interactive 4-page worksheet booklet that introduces Major Pentatonic Scales. Students learn C, G, F, and D Major Pentatonic scales through keyboard coloring, staff notation trace-and-write, and finger-number matching guides.

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eraymond

Rhythm Rigger Card Game

A collaborative shipyard rhythm card game where student crews arrange rhythmic maritime action cards to build and perform 4-bar labor song sequences.

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jconnors

Sequences

Web Culture Legends

An elite curriculum analyzing cult internet masterpieces, media cross-pollination, and experimental digital narratives from the 2000s and 2010s.

Lenny

Signal and Story

A 2-week comprehensive unit on podcast production, focusing on the intersection of journalistic research, interviewing, and technical audio mixing using Soundtrap. Students learn to craft compelling stories through sound while mastering professional digital audio workstation (DAW) workflows.

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Tom Ingram

Unity Anthem Project

A K-12 collaborative music video project where students across all grade levels work together to produce a 'Playing for Change' style cover of a protest song centered on equality and cultural identity. High school students lead production, while K-8 students provide the musical and visual heart of the performance.

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jditomaso

Rhythmic Roots

A comprehensive exploration of world music and dance, focusing on cultural heritage, musical elements, and creative expression through drumming, melody, and global fusion.

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Dóra Fülöp

Sonic Showcase Sequence

A comprehensive music technology unit where middle and high school students master digital audio production and collaborate to produce a multi-grade showcase concert, bridging the gap between classroom creation and public performance.

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jditomaso

Global Beats

A global musical expedition for 2nd graders to discover how geography and culture shape instruments and traditions across four continents. Students explore materials, physics of sound, and the cultural roles of music through inquiry and hands-on activities.

Lenny

Jazz and Folk Roots

An immersive workshop-style sequence for 2nd graders exploring the roots of Jazz, Blues, and Folk music through call-and-response, syncopation, and improvisation. Students trace American musical history from work songs to the Swing era through active music-making.

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Groove Makers

Students explore the world of Jazz through rhythm, syncopation, and improvisation. They'll meet legends like Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald while learning to find their own musical voice through 'swing' and scat singing.

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Rooted in Song

A 3rd-grade music history and appreciation unit exploring the roots of American folk and blues music, focusing on oral traditions, storytelling, and musical structures like call-and-response and the AAB blues form.

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Sonic Circuits

This sequence investigates how the technological explosion of the 20th and 21st centuries, from the electric guitar to AI, redefined music genres and creation. Students analyze production techniques, listen for layers, and explore the concept of technology as a musical instrument.

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Global Music Expedition

This project-based sequence takes students on a global tour as ethnomusicologists, examining how geography and culture influence musical instruments and sounds. Students classify instruments using the Hornbostel-Sachs system and explore rhythms and scales from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

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Videos

Exploring the Origins and Evolution of Hip Hop

This video from Crash Course Black American History explores the dynamic origins and evolution of hip hop and rap, tracing its roots from the streets of Harlem and the South Bronx in the 1970s to its status as a global cultural phenomenon. Clint Smith explains how the genre emerged as a creative response to the economic neglect of Black communities and the artistic legacy of the Black Arts Movement. The video breaks down the "four pillars" of hip hop—DJing, rapping, graffiti, and breakdancing—demonstrating how these distinct art forms coalesced into a unified counterculture.

CrashCourse

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