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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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)
Children's Music Archive - Familiar children's music (Y, M, O, T)
Didjeridoo - From the Aboriginal Australia Art & Culture Centre in Alice Springs. (Y, M, O, T)
Hotchalk.com - HotChalk is a learning environment for K-12 teachers, students and parents that includes a learning management system (LMS), a rich library of teacher-contributed lesson plans, premium digital content like NBC News video, and professional development for teachers in a Web-based environment. Available through any Internet browser, the HotChalk Learning Environment is an easy to use system and brings teachers, students and parents together to improve education. (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 musical Using common household items you can guide your students to make a banjo, bass, dulcimer, drum, rainstick, and thumb piano. Thanks to Iris B. fo (Y, M, O, T)
Paul Taylor Didjeridoo - (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, lyrics, and relate (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)
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 Unit Study - From Garden of Praise (Y,M)
Let Us Have Faith by Helen Keller - From MyHero.com (Y,M)
Our 5 senses - Hands on activities for teaching the 5 senses (Y)
Senses - from BrainPop (Y,M)
Senses, The Five - Kindergarten Unit (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)
Teaching children about the five senses - from the Illinois Extension office, lessons for teaching the senses (Y)
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 Senses Working Together - From Neuroscience for Kids, offers Touch Experiments for grades K-12 (Y, M, O, T)
Touch Experiments - From Neuroscience for Kids, offers Touch Experiments for grades K-12. (Y, M, O, T)
Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: The Life of Helen Keller - This lesson will teach students a little about the life of this great woman as well as how to appreciate those who face disabilities similar to what Helen faced. (Y)
We need all five senses - uses experiments to show our need for the senses (Y)