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Handout
Naxos Digital Services

Naxos Digital Services: Composers

For Students 9th - 10th
From a major publisher of classical music, this website provides a brief biography and picture of literally hundreds of composers of classical music. The discographies at the bottom of each biography allow you to find CDs and often...
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Lesson Plan
Other

Nearpod: Composing & Decomposing Numbers 11 19

For Teachers K Standards
In the lesson plan on composing and decomposing numbers, students will use number bonds and ten frames to help them compose and decompose numbers 11-19.
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Unit Plan
Purple Math

Purplemath: Composition of Functions: Composing Functions With Functions

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Explanations and examples of composing functions with functions.
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Website
Other

Judtith Lang Zaimont Composer

For Students 9th - 10th
Website list current performances and latest news releases regarding American composer Judith Lang Zaimont. Includes composition and discography information, along with personal and professional biography.
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Website
Other

Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers: Josquin Des Prez

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting page with some brief biographical information on Josquin des Prez (1440-1521 CE) and analyses of some of his music.
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Website
Other

Ascap Official Website

For Students 9th - 10th
The official site by The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Of interest is the history of ASCAP as well as articles for those wanting to learn more about the music business.
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Website
Other

Ralph Vaughan Williams Society

For Students 9th - 10th
The official site of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society which was created to broaden the appreciation and encourage the performance this composer's music. By clicking through the menu, you can learn much information about his works.
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Handout
Other

Internet Cello Society: Luigi Boccherini, Cellist

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains an excellent biography on cellist and classical composer, Luigi Boccherini. Hyperlinks to additional information.
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Article
Naxos Digital Services

Naxos Digital Services: A to Z of Opera

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the left navigation to access a solid history of opera as developed in various countries. You can also find synopses of opera stories, full opera libretti, and an index of opera composer's works.
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Interactive
Other

The Math Learning Center: Pattern Shapes

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Students use pattern shapes to explore geometry and fractions, creating their own designs, or filling in outlines. As they work with the shapes students explore geometric relationships, think about angles, investigate symmetry, and...
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Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Preface to Sancho: An Act of Remembrance

For Students 9th - 10th
Paterson Joseph describes how his research into Black British history led him to write his first play, Sancho: An Act of Remembrance. In this one-man show, Paterson Joseph inhabits the life of Ignatius Sancho, the 18th-century composer,...
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Article
Other

Millersville University: Women Artists

For Students 9th - 10th
This site introduces Herrad of Landsberg, along with other medieval composers.
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Curated OER

Baroque Composers and Musicians

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides a listing of some of the prominent composers and musical personalities of the baroque period. Those underlined as links will take you to a short biographical article on that particular composer.
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Article
Scott Alexander

Alberta Hunter

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains an article on the singer and composer Alberta Hunter. It also includes audio clips of some of her most famous songs. Excellent resource.
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Primary
Other

Classical (Period) Music

For Students 9th - 10th
A nice website discussing music of the classical period. It provides detail into the style of classical music, lists some of the composers associated with classical music.
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Website
Other

Zygote: Zygote Anatomy Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
A 3D anatomical product that allows students to explore the muscles, bones, organs, skin, and blood vessels that compose the human body.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Classics for Kids: Lesson Plans

For Teachers K - 1st
Teach the basics of classical music to your students with this collection of lesson plans. Study a classical music composer and a selected piece of music with these lesson plans that are based on national and state standards.
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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Grade 3: Rock N Art

For Teachers 3rd
In this arts integrated unit, 3rd graders will explore Rocks and Soil. These projects focus on bringing multiple art forms to the Earth Sciences for third graders. Students will focus on comparing and contrasting the 3 types of rocks, as...
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Handout
Other

Medieval: Hildegard Von Bingen (1098 1179)

For Students 9th - 10th
A discography of Bingen's work accompanied by a brief biography.
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Website
Other

The Duke Ellington Society

For Students 9th - 10th
The Duke Ellington Society maintains this wealth of information on Duke Ellington and his works including news, information on the singers who worked with him, audio clips, and links to other Ellington sites.
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Handout
Songwriters Hall of Fame

Songwriters Hall of Fame: Stephen Foster

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about Stephen Foster.
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Article
Other

Goucher College: English 211: Edmund Spenser, Amoretti and "Epithalamion"

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a discription and literary analysis of Edmund Spenser's Amoretti, a love poem composed of 89 sonnets, and "Epithalamion," a wedding song composed of 24 complex 18-line stanzas.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Teaching Character Traits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Inspired by the music "Free to Be. . . You and Me" by Marlo Thomas, this lesson, which will take several days, asks students to compose stories that teach character traits that will be shared with elementary school children. They will...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: "Where Is the Love?"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using the song "Where Is the Love" by the Black-Eyed Peas and "Excuse Me, Mr." by Ben Harper, students will begin to think about injustices that exist in our world. Ultimately, student writers will compose an essay based on a persuasive...