ACTIVITIES
Use this guide to help you address the issues involved when introducing Native American music and culture to your class.
REFERENCE
Find out some of the many ways in which Native American influence is heard in popular genres of modern music.
Reference the history and present details of Native American music developed among many tribes.
Learn what materials were traditionally used to make Native American instruments, and the role these instruments played…
WORKSHEETS
Words and rhythm notation for a Nanticoke women's dance, in Native American call-and-response form.
Distribute a guide that is helpful with the transcriptions of Native American lyrics and vocables.
Reference this chart of the regional music styles of Native American tribes.
A discussion and strategies for integrating the Standards into orchestra rehearsals.
Suggestions for standard correlations and the benefits of teaching the guitar and keyboard in the classroom.
Students in grades 9-12 learn how their part fits into an ensemble by silently playing their instruments while another…
Students in grades 5-8 study African and Native American percussion, consider music's cultural relevance, and perform in…
Help students in grades K-4 with rhythm and melody by using the echo technique and basic percussion instruments.
LESSON PLANS
Have students in grades 9-12 perform a varied repertoire of instrumental literature with expression and technical…
Use chords to help students in grades 5-8 play simple tunes on a melodic instrument and simple accompaniments on a…
Students in grades K-4 echo short rhythms and melodic patterns by using their bodies.
Share an article that, from the Center for Disease Control, explains anthrax - how it is transmitted, the symptoms, and…
GAMES AND APPS
Have your students learn how to play an old Native American game. This Cheyenne game is fun and easy to learn!
Have your students read facts about why the Native Americans population dropped in the eighteenth century and have them…
Use equations to create secret messages on a graph. Solving the equation decodes the message.
Collect data from a phone book to discover the probability of certain numbers.
CLASSROOM TOOLS
By creating a paper snowflake students will learn how and why the perimeter is infinite. This is a fun math activity for…
Students learn how to graph points by using a function table.
Pizza pieces are a creative way to teach quadratic equations.
Students practice math skills by creating a three-dimensional mobile using this printable and algebraic equations.…
