A 30-minute Valentine's Day paper craft lesson where second-grade students create their own 'Love Bug' creatures using heart-shaped templates to practice fine motor skills and creativity.

A fun and engaging 30-minute craft session where young students create their own 'Love Bug' characters using paper shapes. This lesson focuses on fine motor skills, shape recognition, and creative expression.

A block-building music lesson where students 'craft' rhythms, 'survive' rapid direction changes, and explore Orff percussion through a pixelated world theme. Includes singing, dancing, and body percussion activities.

A high-energy, low-pressure 15-minute music lesson designed to engage disengaged students and build vocal confidence through rhythm and stealth games. This lesson moves from non-verbal rhythmic games to collective vocalizing to bypass the fear of singing.

A short, impactful drama lesson centered around a school assembly script about Ruby Bridges. Students explore themes of bravery and segregation through performance, visual storytelling, and personal reflection.

An interactive, game-based lesson where students use body percussion to perform quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rests at varying tempos.

A 2nd grade music and science integration lesson where students investigate how vibrations produce sound and classify musical instruments by their vibrating parts.

A collaborative art lesson where 1st and 2nd-grade students explore the concept of community by creating a layered mural of rainforest animals based on their habitats.

A music and science integration lesson where students analyze animal classifications and write their own verses for the 'Animal Song' using AABB rhyme schemes.

A hands-on art and science lesson where students explore the anatomical structures of fungi through clay modeling and painting, using visual references from nature.

A creative art lesson focused on positive and negative space through the lens of Kirigami snowflake cutting. Students create a dual-image composition using both their snowflake and the leftover scraps to explore spatial relationships.

A visual arts and science lesson where students explore the concept of fog as a 'cloud on the ground' through watercolor painting and sponge-dabbing techniques.

A music lesson where students compose and perform a new verse for 'Going Green Song' about environmental issues in their own school.

Students explore how the brain uses patterns and expectations to process music, learning about the 'tonic' and 'resolution' through a rhythmic composition game.

A music and literacy lesson where elementary students learn about musical resolution by connecting it to narrative arcs in stories. Students will use the concept of the 'tonic' note to create soundscapes for specific story prompts.

Students will explore the biological and neurological connection between music and the human body, learning about brain patterns, the tonic, and physiological reactions like increased heart rate and blood flow.

Students explore the concept of tempo and rhythm through a catchy song about the solar system, using rhythm sticks to match shifting speeds.

A fun, interactive music lesson where students use a balloon analogy to understand how vocal folds create different pitches and how breath control changes volume. Includes a slide presentation, a comprehensive teacher guide, and a student activity sheet.

An art and science integration lesson where students explore the Aurora Borealis through scientific inquiry and chalk pastel landscapes. Students learn about Earth's magnetic field and solar particles before recreating the shimmering sky.

Students explore the intersection of science and art by using homemade or primary watercolors to create original artwork, focusing on the magic of color mixing to create secondary colors.

Students become weather reporters in this ELA and Drama lesson, learning the scientific requirements of a blizzard and performing a 'Breaking News' broadcast using domain-specific vocabulary.

An integrated Art and Science lesson for 2nd-4th grade focusing on bioluminescence and high-contrast art. Students explore the 'Midnight Zone' of the ocean through the lens of the Anglerfish, culminating in a scratch-art activity that mimics the glowing lure against a dark background.

A hands-on STEAM lesson where students explore the physical transformation of Ivory soap through heat, then use the resulting 'cloud' material to create sensory soap dough sculptures. Students practice observation, descriptive language, and tactile art skills.

A creative art and social studies lesson where 2nd-grade students explore the anatomy of US currency and design their own unique bank notes. Students identify key features like portraits, denominations, and intricate borders before creating their own masterpiece.

Students explore how physical action and decisions drive story and reveal character traits without using words, featuring a 'Silent Scenes' activity and a video analysis.

Students learn the visual language of comics—including iconography, panels, and gutters—to design an original superhero and introduce them in a three-panel 'Hero Launch' comic strip.

Students will explore the intersection of language and visual art by identifying onomatopoeia in Pop Art and creating 3D 'Sound Sculptures' that represent the visual feeling of a sound.

A cumulative review where students synthesize their knowledge to build a complete timeline of music history. They categorize genres by their technological and musical characteristics.

Students deconstruct modern pop songs to find the 'Verse-Chorus' pattern. They use a 'Song Sandwich' analogy to understand how most modern music is structured.

An introduction to the digital age of music, where students explore synthesizers and drum machines from the 1980s. They compare electronic sounds with traditional acoustic instruments.

Learners dive into the 1970s Funk era, focusing on the bass guitar and the importance of 'The One.' They practice rhythmic grounding through movement and listening exercises.

Students explore the birth of Rock 'n' Roll, focusing on the electric guitar and the shift from acoustic to amplified sound. They learn to identify the backbeat and understand how electricity changed the energy of music.

A culminating lesson where students compare musical celebrations from the cultures studied, synthesizing their understanding of music's role in global traditions.

Introduction to the Sitar and the concept of a 'drone' note in Indian classical music, focusing on listening endurance and harmonic texture.

Students investigate the pan flutes of the Andes Mountains, discussing how natural materials shape sound and constructing straw flutes to learn about pitch.

Learners discover the Erhu and Pipa and explore the five-note pentatonic scale common in traditional Chinese music through listening and xylophone exploration.

Students explore the djembe and talking drums of West Africa, learning how drums can mimic human speech and layering simple rhythms to create polyphonic textures.

Bring all skills together in a classroom 'Swing Band' performance that highlights group collaboration and individual creativity.

Learn the art of vocal improvisation using scat syllables, inspired by jazz legends like Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.

Master the concept of syncopation and off-beat rhythms inspired by the Ragtime style of Scott Joplin.

Introduce students to the 12-bar blues form and 'blue notes' as a way to express emotions and tell stories through music.

Students act as 'directors' by creating a storyboard for a mystery piece of music, mapping an emotional arc to their own story.

Explore the origins of call-and-response in American music history through work songs and spirituals, focusing on vocal matching and coordination.