Animated Lessons
Babar, To Duet or Not to Duet
Babar, To Duet or Not to Duet
Based on characters created by Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff. Based on a story by Elaine Waisglass.
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Go-Alongs:
Online Units and Resources for Babar, To Duet or Not to Duet
Our Five in a Row Adventures Vol. 2
Highlights and sugggestions from someone who has "rowed" before you. (Y,T)
Go-alongs about Music
Appalachian Riddle Song - Capture your students' attention with this lesson focusing on “The Riddle Song” to show the pentatonic scale and Appalachian culture. (Y, M)
Blueberry Teacher's Help - This site has games for every subject that will turn learning into fun for your children. (Y, M, O, T)
Boombox Classroom - Boombox Classsroom is a series of curriculum-based music lessons for kids in grades K-5 based on the national standards for Music Education. We have more than 200 artists on the shows each year, performing live — both world and classical music. We celebrate diversity and promote appreciation of other cultures.
Boombox Classroom teaches kids the fundamentals of music, such as rhythm, harmony, melody, timbre and form. We integrate the music lessons with geography, science, anthropology, math, language, literature, and a lot of history. (Y)
Children's Music Archive - Here you will find lyrics, sing-along suggestions, colouring sheets and activities for many children's songs. (Y, M, O, T)
Didjeridoo - From the Aboriginal Australia Art & Culture Centre in Alice Springs. (Y, M, O, T)
Ideas for teaching music - Includes links to some wonderful Music toys and games,
recommended books about Music, and some links to other useful Music sites.
(Y,M)
Making Musical Instruments - Carol Raedy, a musician and educator from Charlotte, NC, has put instructions online for making simple music. Using common household items you can guide your students to make a banjo, bass, dulcimer, drum, rainstick, and thumb piano. (Y, M, O, T)
Paul Taylor Didjeridoo - Australian storyteller, didjeridoo player and traveller. He comes to the U.S. from Adelaide, South Australia, on the invitation of Bobby Bridger and the Adelaide-Austin, TX, sister city program. Bridger is a descendent of the legendary western pioneer, Jim Bridger. In 1986, Paul acted as guide for Bobby Bridger on an extensive tour of South Australia. Bridger performed his acclaimed one-man show “Ballad of the West," on a tour of the outback and to the Pitjantatjara Aboriginal community in the red heart of the country. (Y, M, O, T)
Popular Songs in American History - If your student loves music, he will love learning these songs and their place in history. My kids have enjoyed learning songs like Wait for the Wagon and Yankee Doodle Dandy and this site offers not just the songs, but the background and lyrics. (Y, M, O, T)
The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame - This art-deco museum honors great jazz artists with ties to the state of Alabama. While furnishing educational information, the museum is also a place for entertainment. Exhibits convey the accomplishments of the likes of Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton and Erskine Hawkins and the music that made them famous. Within this fine musical collection, visitors travel from the beginnings of boogie woogie with Clarence "Pinetop" Smith to the jazz space journeys of Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Space Arkestra. (Y, M, O, T)
The Sound Site - The Sound Site is part of the Sound Project, a partnership between the Science Museum and the Minnesota Orchestra. The site's purpose is to present activities, discussions and multimedia explorations about sound, both from a scientific and artistic perspective. (Y, M, O, T)
Go-alongs about Senses
American Foundation for the Blind: Helen Keller - Deaf and blind from infancy, Helen Keller played a leading role in most of the significant political, social, and cultural movements of the 20th century. Throughout her lifetime (1880-1968) she worked unceasingly to improve the lives of people who were blind and deaf. (Y, M, O, T)
Audition (Hearing) - Neuroscience for kids (Y)
Braille - From Omniglot - writing systems and languages of the world (Y, M, O, T)
Braille Name Tag - Fill in the dots to write your name in braille. (Y)
Come to your senses - Use an online Mr. Potato Head to learn about the senses. (Y,M)
Decibel Levels - From CoolMath4Kids.com (Y, M, O, T)
Ear Anatomy - From Enchanted Learning. (Y)
Eggs filled with sound - Plastic eggs will be filled with various objects and children will need to use their sense of hearing to figure out what is inside. Preschool, K, 1-2 (Y)
HELEN KELLER - From Garden of Praise (Y,M)
Helen Keller - From Surfing the Net with Kids (Y,M)
Helen Keller Biography - From The Braille Bug (Y,M)
Helen Keller Birthplace - Ivy Green is the birthplace of Helen Keller. "The map shows you around Tuscumbia, Alabama and the local area... There is something spiritually uplifting about touching the actual well-pump where Anne Sullivan reached into the dark silent world of young Helen Keller's mind and opened the window of communication." (Y, M, O, T)
Helen Keller Kids Museum Online - An interactive virtual experience from the American Foundation for the Blind (Y,M)
Helen Keller resources - From KidsKonnect.com (Y,M)
Helen Keller Unit Study - From Garden of Praise (Y,M)
Let Us Have Faith by Helen Keller - From MyHero.com (Y,M)
Louis Braille Biography - From the American Foundation for the Blind (Y,M)
Louis Braille:A Touch of Genius - From National Braille Press (Y, M, O, T)
Our 5 senses - Hands on activities for teaching the 5 senses (Y)
Senses - BrainPop movies explain balance, hearing, taste, vision problems, eyes, smell and touch. (Y,M)
Senses, The Five - Mathematics, Science and Language objectives; Vocabulary and Concept Web Grades K, 1, 2, 3 (Y)
Sight (Vision) - From Neuroscience for Kids, offers vision lesson plans for grades K-12 (Y, M, O, T)
Smell (Olfaction) - From Neuroscience for Kids, offers Olfaction lesson plans for grades K-12 (Y, M, O, T)
Stick out your tongue and say "aah" - from Kids' Health, lots of info about the tongue and taste (Y,M)
Taste (Gustation) - From Neuroscience for Kids, offers gustation lesson plans for grades K-12 (Y, M, O, T)
TEACHER HERO:LOUIS BRAILLE - From My Hero Project (Y, M, O, T)
Teaching children about the five senses - from the Illinois Extension office, lessons for teaching the senses (Y)
The Braille Bug Site - From the American Foundation for the Blind (Y,M)
The Incredible Human Body: The Five Senses - Designed for a group, but contains good questions to spark discussion. Lessons fore different age levels. (Y, M, O, T)
The Life of Helen Keller - About the life of Helen Keller, the deafblind woman who became a role model for millions of people (Y, M, O, T)
The life of Louis Braille - From the Royal National Institute of the Blind (Y, M, O, T)
The Senses Working Together - From Neuroscience for Kids, offers Touch Experiments for grades K-12 (Y, M, O, T)
The Sound Site - The Sound Site is part of the Sound Project, a partnership between the Science Museum and the Minnesota Orchestra. The site's purpose is to present activities, discussions and multimedia explorations about sound, both from a scientific and artistic perspective. (Y, M, O, T)
Touch Experiments - From Neuroscience for Kids, offers Touch Experiments for grades K-12. (Y, M, O, T)
We need all five senses - uses experiments to show our need for the senses (Y)