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Tools for Teaching

Tools for Teaching from Smithsonian Folkways provides ideas and resources for educators to inspire their use of Folkways music from around the world. Information about these sounds and the cultures that create them are a valuable resource to courses in history, geography, language arts, social studies, visual arts-and of course music and dance.

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Shintaro-san of the Mountain: Mountains, Minyo, and Japanese Culture

ASIA. Suggested Grade Levels: 3-5. View Full Lesson Plan: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/docs/lesson_plans/FLP10119_Japan.pdf Shintaro-san of the Mountain: Mountains, Minyo, and Japanese Culture. This tutorial provides an introductory view into Japanese traditional ballads, known as minyo, and folktales involving the cultural heritage of Japanese mountains. Traditional music and Japanese mountain folklore will be discussed; musical activities, experiences, and stories support this lesson.

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Jíbaro to the Bone! Puerto Rican Music for the Classroom

Suggested Grade Levels: 9-12, C/U. View Full Lesson Plan: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/docs/lesson_plans/FLP10130_PuertoRico.pdf Jíbaro to the Bone! Puerto Rican Music for the Classroom. This lesson is intended to develop musical and literary skills using jíbaro music from Puerto Rico. In a series of three lessons, students will learn typical instrumentation and forms, augment their vocabulary, and listen to the lyrics in jíbaroas a means of understanding modern Puerto Rican culture.

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Fish Tales: Exploring the Folk Music of Newfoundland

Suggested Grade Levels: 4-5. View Full Lesson Plan: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/docs/lesson_plans/FLP10132_Newfoundland.pdf. Fish Tales: Exploring the Folk Music of Newfoundland. In this series of lessons students will learn about the culture and economy of Newfoundland, learn to sing the folksongs “I’s the B’y” and “Jack Was Ev’ry Inch a Sailor,” learn a folk dance, play recorder and hand chimes, and create a dramatic play.

An Exploration of Spanish Music and Dance Traditions

EUROPE. Suggested Grade Levels: 3-5. View Full Lesson Plan: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/docs/lesson_plans/FLP10128_Spain.pdf An Exploration of Spanish Music and Dance Traditions. These lessons are designed to introduce the history, traditions, and music of Spain. The first lesson covers the flamenco dance and discusses the Romani people. The second lesson is designed to teach students a fun Spanish children’s song. The third lesson introduces some Christmas traditions in Spain.

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Latin American Protest Songs: New Song of Chile and Cuba

Suggested Grade Levels: 9-12, C/U. View Full Lesson Plan: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/docs/lesson_plans/FLP10129_Chile_Cuba.pdf Latin American Protest Songs: New Song of Chile and Cuba. Students will learn about the music of the New Song movement by engaging with the melodies, rhythms, and lyrics of four selections. This will teach them about the role music can play in social protest, as well as the specific historical, political, and cultural contexts of the songs.

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ASIA. Suggested Grade Levels: 3-5, 6-8. View Full Lesson Plan: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/docs/lesson_plans/FLP10122_Philippines.pdf Two Children's Songs from the Philippines. This lesson consists of two children’s songs from the Philippines. Students will be exposed to Tagalog language and translation; culture, manners, and geography of the Philippines; 3/4 time, steady beat, dance and movement; unison singing, Orff playing and accompaniment, etc.

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Langston Hughes Poems

National Poetry Month

Culture Media

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The Voice of Langston Hughes | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Suggested Grade Levels: K-12. View Full Lesson Plan: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/docs/lesson_plans/FLP10134-music-in-poetry.pdf The Music in Poetry. The lessons in this issue introduce students to the rhythms of poetry. The exercises take poetry off the page and put it into terms of movement, physical space, and, finally, music.

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Bluegrass Music: Chopping and Singing Songs of Sorrow

Suggested Grade Levels: 9-12, C/U. View Full Lesson Plan: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/docs/lesson_plans/FLP10133_Bluegrass.pdf Bluegrass Music: Chopping and Singing Songs of Sorrow. Students will be introduced to bluegrass music through exercises that emphasize important components of the genre, including feel, form, and common themes. Lesson segments are designed to stand alone, but a progressive study would lend itself to a more complete understanding of the genre as a whole.

AFRICA & CARIBBEAN. Suggested Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12. View Full Lesson Plan: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/docs/lesson_plans/FLP10127_Caribbean.pdf Spirits Across the Ocean: Yoruban and Dahomean Cultures in the Caribbean Brought by the Slave Trade. This lesson explores the journey of people from Yoruban and Dahomean cultures to the Caribbean through forced migration of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Students will learn about the similarities of the music found all over Latin America. Calypso Music, Papa Legba, Latin American Music, National Language, Slave Trade, Trinidad Tobago

Spirits Across the Ocean: Yoruban and Dahomean Cultures in the Caribbean Brought by the Slave Trade

AFRICA & CARIBBEAN. Suggested Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12. View Full Lesson Plan: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/docs/lesson_plans/FLP10127_Caribbean.pdf Spirits Across the Ocean: Yoruban and Dahomean Cultures in the Caribbean Brought by the Slave Trade. This lesson explores the journey of people from Yoruban and Dahomean cultures to the Caribbean through forced migration of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Students will learn about the similarities of the music found all over Latin America.

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NORTH AMERICA. Suggested Grade Levels: 3-6. View Full Lesson Plan: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/docs/lesson_plans/FLP10126_American_Folk.pdf Hootenanny, Hootin' Annie, Will You Dance with Me? Music of the American Folk Music Revival. This lesson is intended to introduce students to the music of the American folk revival that developed between the 1940s and 1960s with notable figures such as Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, Jean Ritchie, Paul Robeson, and many others.

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Danish Music: Tall Tales, Melodies and Movement

EUROPE. Recommended Grade Levels: 3-5. View Full Lesson Plan: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/docs/lesson_plans/FLP10124_Denmark.pdf Danish Music: Tall Tales, Melodies, and Movement. This lesson is designed to teach students about aural tradition and the Danish hero Peter “Tordenskjold” Wessel. Students will discuss tall tales and draw parallels to similar characters in American culture. When considering these heroes, they will collaborate and compose new verses.

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Chinese New Year Music

Drinking Songs

New Year Music

Music Around The World

Suggested Grade Levels: 3-5. View Full Lesson Plan: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/docs/lesson_plans/FLP10131_China.pdf Finding the Musical Clues within the Music of the Chinese New Year. We can often find musical clues to help us figure out what story the music is telling us. In this lesson we will examine some traditional Chinese New Year music and instruments and determine what stories are intertwined within the music.

Delicious Peace: Music of the Ugandan Mirembe Kawomera Coffee Cooperative

AFRICA. Suggested Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12, C/U. View Full Lesson Plan: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/docs/lesson_plans/FLP10125_Uganda.pdf Delicious Peace: Music of the Ugandan Kawomera Coffee Cooperative. The Mirembe Kawomera Coffee cooperative in Uganda is a movement designed to promote the sale of Ugandan coffee, but also to unite several culture groups, including Christians and Muslims, to promote a common cause of world peace.

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"Love Is the Thing to Make it Fall": African-American Music in Alabama before and during the Civil Rights Movement | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

NORTH AMERICA. Suggested Grade Levels: 3-5. View Full Lesson Plan: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/docs/lesson_plans/FLP10123_African_American_Music.pdf "Love is the Thing to Make it Fall": African-American Music in Alabama before and during the Civil Rights Movement. This set of lessons is an introduction to African-American music in Alabama through children’s songs of the 1950s as well as freedom songs of the 1960s. Students will listen, sing, play instruments, improvise, move, and play.

CARIBBEAN. Suggested Grade Levels: 3-5. View Full Lesson Plan: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/docs/lesson_plans/FLP10121_Jamaica.pdf Jamaican Song, Dance, and Play: Experiences with Jamaican Musical Traditions. This lesson is intended to develop knowledge about certain aspects of Jamaican music and culture. Students will experience glimpses of Jamaican culture through listening, performance, game play, and discussion. Vintage Album Covers, Fiddle Music, Jamaican Culture, Jamaican Music, Island Pictures, University Of Alberta, Drum Music, Song Dance, Vinyl Graphics

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Drum Music

Song Dance

Vinyl Graphics

Jamaican Song, Dance, and Play: Experiences with Jamaican Musical Traditions

CARIBBEAN. Suggested Grade Levels: 3-5. View Full Lesson Plan: http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/docs/lesson_plans/FLP10121_Jamaica.pdf Jamaican Song, Dance, and Play: Experiences with Jamaican Musical Traditions. This lesson is intended to develop knowledge about certain aspects of Jamaican music and culture. Students will experience glimpses of Jamaican culture through listening, performance, game play, and discussion.

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