Music Genealogy Project

An exploration of the historical, musical, and cultural impact of the pioneering alternative rock band The Cure. This lesson traces their transformation from late-1970s post-punk to global icons of gothic rock, accompanied by a comprehensive album chronology and cultural legacy analysis.

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.

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.

A comprehensive art reflection lesson designed for secondary art students to analyze their technical progression, artistic growth, and studio contributions across painting and ceramics.

A lesson introducing students to mobile and browser-based video editing. Students will learn core editing concepts like standard cuts, jump cuts, and J/K cuts, and complete a hands-on 30-second mini-documentary project.

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.

A comprehensive lesson bundle on 20th-century fashion history. Students explore how fashion serves as a mirror for social, economic, and political shifts from the 1920s flappers to 1990s grunge. Includes high-impact slides, a structured guided notes booklet, an interactive trend-spotting worksheet, and a reflective exit ticket.

A comprehensive self-evaluation and growth-tracking lesson for art students. Students reflect on their artistic process, compare initial drafts to final works, and evaluate their studio habits and citizenship.

Production plan and storyboard guide for the 'AI Superstar' promotional video. This lesson contains the visual storyboard detailing framing, presenter actions, and specific 3D cartoon image prompts to help the presenter record and edit the promotional video.

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.

A first-week music lesson that scaffolds decoding names into rhythmic patterns. Students map syllables to quarter notes (Ta) and eighth notes (Ti-Ti) to create a collective classroom rhythm groove.

A foundational art exploration framework designed for an 8th-grade semester rotation. Includes a printable student-facing 'Art Explorer Passport' with rubrics and stamp slots, and a comprehensive 5-week curriculum pacing guide across 2D, 3D, Photography, and Video specialties.

An end-of-year collaborative sculpture project for grades 8-12. Students dig through studio scraps, catalog their findings, and curate temporary artistic assemblages, turning cleanup into creative archaeology.

A collaborative art and reflection project where students design individual symbolic quilt squares representing their growth and memories, combining them into a grand classroom legacy mural.