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Book 4, Fragmentation. Chapter 8, Lesson 1: The Emergence of Grunge
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In its early years, Grunge was largely a localized phenomenon, emerging out of the club scene in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle had been deeply affected by the economic recession of the early 1990s, when unemployment was at a high and Starbucks did not yet have the ubiquitous presence it does today. Grunge, with its dour visuals and indifferent lyrics, seemed to encapsulate the grey and depressed mood of the region at the time. As the 90s progressed, the commercial success of groups such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam catapulted the Grunge sound into a national spotlight for which its creators and adherents were largely unprepared.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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TeachRock
Date Added:
06/21/2023
Book 4, Fragmentation. Chapter 9, Lesson 1: The Historical Roots of Hip Hop
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In this lesson, students will examine raw documentary footage, demographic charts, television news stories, and song lyrics to connect the sounds of early Hip Hop to the substandard living conditions in American inner cities in the late 1970s, particularly the Bronx in New York City. Students will compose their own verses to Grandmaster Flash's "The Message," to be followed up with a research-driven writing assignment to further explore the urban environment depicted in the landmark song.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Full Course
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TeachRock
Date Added:
06/21/2023
Book 4, Fragmentation. Chapter 9. Lesson 2: Divergent Paths in the 1990s: Gangsta Rap and Conscious Hip Hop
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Gangsta Rap grew in part out of the social and political climate on the West Coast, where cities such as Compton, California, became engulfed in gang violence fueled by the crack cocaine epidemic. Longstanding tensions between the African-American community and the police came to a head in the Rodney King case and the announcement of its verdict. Gangsta rappers began to write explicitly about inner city violence. Songs were marked by a liberal use of profanity and images of the gun-toting toughs who lived amidst the brutality of the inner city. Gangsta Rap often overlapped with the East Coast-based "Mafioso Rap," whose practicioners cultivated personas of high-living, power-wielding gangsters who drove fancy cars, drank champagne, and sported intimidating weapons all while promoting a strong sense of kinship. Fiction seemed to become fact when rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. were victims of unsolved, highly public murders. Soon enough, a countermovement some called "Conscious Hip Hop€" began to emerge, primarily on the East Coast. Many fans saw it as an answer to the often violent and controversial lyrics common in Gangsta Rap. Though in many ways responding to the same conditions to which Gangsta Rap reacted, this subgenre sought to inspire positivity through its lyrics, much like some of the earliest Hip Hop music. Lyrics were intended to challenge and inspire while also questioning the social and political status quo.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Full Course
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TeachRock
Date Added:
06/21/2023
Book 5, Music Across Classrooms: English Language Arts. Chapter 2, Lesson 1: Heroes and Mortals in "Something Just Like This"
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In this lesson, students use the lyrics to "Something Like This" as an opportunity to learn the stories of Achilles, Hercules, Wonder Woman and Superman. Students will explore similarities between these gods and superheroes, finally considering why mortals still need superhumans, thousands of years later.

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Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Performing Arts
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Full Course
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TeachRock
Date Added:
06/21/2023
Book 5, Music Across Classrooms: English Language Arts. Chapter 5, Lesson 1: New Perspectives on the Great Gatsby's Daisy Buchanan
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In this lesson, students will explore these questions, comparing Lana Del Rey's "Young and Beautiful" with chapters 1-7 of The Great Gatsby to form their own characterization of Daisy. Students will view the music video for "Young and Beautiful" and analyze advertisements and headlines from 1918-1922 to consider the potential influence of cultural values and gender expectations on women like Daisy. Finally, using excerpts from the novel, the song, and the advertisements, students will work in groups to create an identity chart for Daisy.

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Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Performing Arts
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Full Course
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TeachRock
Date Added:
06/21/2023
Book 5, Music Across Classrooms: English Language Arts. Chapter 6: Celebrating Community With Art and Poetry (High School Version)
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In this lesson, students will consider the many kinds of communities that exist, and reflect on their own special ties to a community they are a part of. After watching the video for "Sunday Candy," and hearing the poetry of Chicago-based Kevin Coval, students will hold their own poetry slam featuring poems about community.

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Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Performing Arts
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Full Course
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TeachRock
Date Added:
06/21/2023
Book 5, Music Across Classrooms: English Language Arts. Chapter 8, Lesson 1: Blues, Poetry, and the Harlem Renaissance
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In this lesson, students will discuss how the ideals of the Harlem Renaissance and Locke's New Negro were exemplified by the poetry of Langston Hughes. Specifically, they will examine how Hughes incorporated the vernacular tradition of the Blues in his work, and identify the literary techniques Hughes employs to make his poetry so vivid.

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Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
TeachRock
Date Added:
06/21/2023
Book 5, Music Across Classrooms: STEAM. Chapter 1, Lesson 1: The Evolution of Sound Recording
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This lesson explores several of the recording mediums used throughout the early 20th century. Along the way, students learn how sound waves travel, how the human brain converts those waves to recognizable sound and how inventors learned to capture them on wax, magnetic tape, and finally as digital information. From there, this lesson then investigates the creative impulses and scientific developments that turned multitrack recording from a dream to a reality. Students also get hands-on experience using the Soundbreaking Mixing Board TechTool, which allows them to be sound engineers, playing with "the mix" of a multitrack studio.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Full Course
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TeachRock
Date Added:
06/21/2023
Book 5, Music Across Classrooms: STEAM. Chapter 3, Lesson 1: The Impact of the Electric Guitar
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This lesson investigates how electrifying the guitar was a contributing factor to the emergence of a sound that came to define Rock and Roll and, to a large extent, mid-20th century American popular culture. Featuring content from the PBS Soundbreaking episode, "Going Electric," which includes the guitar playing of luminaries Charlie Christian, Pete Townsend, Muddy Waters and Jimi Hendrix, this lesson examines the spirit of curiosity, adaptation and invention that characterized the early 1950s and in the 1960s led to the guitar's emergence as a versatile and attractive instrument for musicians and as the quintessential Rock and Roll icon.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Full Course
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TeachRock
Date Added:
06/21/2023
Book 5, Music Across Classrooms: STEAM. Chapter 4, Lesson 1: Sound Waves, Analog Synthesis and Popular Culture
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This lesson introduces students to the Telharmonium, the Theremin, the Moog and the component on which all of their sound syntheses are formed: the sound wave. Students learn what a sound wave is, how it travels and how our bodies convert it into intelligible sound. Using the Soundbreaking Sound Wave TechTool, students learn to recognize four basic waveform shapes by sound and sight. This lesson also explores the role the synthesizer played in relation to people's perceptions of technology and culture in the 1970s, 80s and beyond.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
TeachRock
Date Added:
06/21/2023
Book 5, Music Across Classrooms: STEAM. Chapter 5, Lesson 1:  How Records and Radio Shaped American Culture
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This lesson explores the technology of "records" and what it meant to the people who consumed them. Students will learn how a record works and why a needle on a disc can record and play back music. Moreover, students will investigate how these technological changes had far reaching effects, even in the domestic setting. Finally, this lesson follows the 45 rpm and LP record through the airwaves of both AM and FM radio, using excerpts of broadcasts by the pioneering DJs Alan Freed and Tom Donahue and investigating how the possibilities and limitations of each medium and their respective places on the radio dial provide a framework for historical analysis.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
TeachRock
Date Added:
06/21/2023
Book 5, Music Across Classrooms: STEAM. Chapter 8, Lesson 1: Cleaning Up the Plastic Beach (Middle School/High School Version)
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In this lesson, the music and visuals of the Gorillaz album Plastic Beach is used to introduce students to the issue of plastic waste. Students are asked to calculate the percentage of plastic that goes unrecycled internationally, and illustrate a model of polyethylene to better understand why the molecular makeup of plastic creates both benefits and drawbacks. Finally, they evaluate various projects that are currently being undertaken to curb plastic waste, and develop their own similar program or project that they could employ on a local level.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Full Course
Provider:
TeachRock
Date Added:
06/21/2023
Book 5, Music Across Classrooms: Visual Arts. Chapter 1, Lesson 1: Designing A Band Logo
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In this lesson, students explore band logos as examples of graphic design, and consider how logos derive meaning through association with the bands they symbolize. Guided by a handout that introduces Five Principles of Effective Logo Design, students study images of band logos and analyze their effectiveness. Armed with a new sense of what might make logos effective, students then design logos for their own fictitious, or real, bands.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
TeachRock
Date Added:
06/21/2023
Book 5, Music Across Classrooms: Visual Arts. Chapter 2, Lesson 1: Negotiating Native Identity Through Art and Music
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In this lesson, students begin by examining the ways their sense of identity might be affected by social pressures associated with different spaces. By watching clips from RUMBLE, students then discover how musicians Robbie Robertson, Stevie Salas, and Taboo have negotiated their Native identities, and compare these musician's journeys with those of earlier Native Americans.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
TeachRock
Date Added:
06/21/2023
Book 5, Music Across Classrooms: Visual Arts. Chapter 4, Lesson 1: Drawing To Music
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In this lesson, students explore the principles of synesthesia through drawing to music. By viewing and analyzing artwork based on multi sensory perception, students will become aware of the role of the senses in art, and how sensory stimulation such as listening to music can be used as a tool for inspiration. Guided by a handout outlining the basic elements and principles of art, students will engage in active discussions about how sensory perceptions can be interpreted through color, line, and form. They will then apply these reflections on their own artistic work.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
TeachRock
Date Added:
06/21/2023
Book 5, Music Across Classrooms: Visual Arts. Chapter 5, Lesson 1: Exploring Shapes in Pablo Picasso's "Guitar, Sheet Music, and Glass"
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In this lesson, students identify basic shapes and types of lines, and analyze how Pablo Picasso's might use such shapes and lines in Guitar, Sheet Music, and Glass. Drawing upon Guitar, Sheet Music, and Glass as an inspiration, students than cut out and paste shapes to create their own cubist collage of a musical instrument.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
Material Type:
Full Course
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TeachRock
Date Added:
06/21/2023
Book 5, Music Across the Classrooms: STEAM. Chapter 11, Lesson 1:  The Guitar: A Musical Transducer
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In this lesson, students understand the principles of transduction and the role of transducers by looking at the history of the guitar. They begin by examining how an acoustic and electric guitar function, and then construct their own "digital" guitar from cardboard, conductive tape, and a Makey Makey circuit board. After performing their own "riffs" on their digital guitars, they discuss how each type of guitar transduces sound waves, electrical currents, and/or digital signals.

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Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
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Full Course
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TeachRock
Date Added:
06/21/2023
Book 5, Music Across the Classrooms: STEAM. Chapter 12, Lesson 1: The Science and Civics of the Flint Water Crisis (High School Version)
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In this lesson, students listen to Flint-based rapper Jon Connor's song "Fresh Water for Flint" to better understand the sense of frustration and injustice people living in the city felt during the water crisis. Students then experiment with creating their own water filtration system to better understand the scientific and engineering principles behind water treatment. Lastly, they consider the biological effects of lead poisoning and determine specific, political, economic, and scientific causes behind the Flint water crisis.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
TeachRock
Date Added:
06/21/2023
Buzzing Bees, Read & Seed Activity, The Gardens on Spring Creek
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Bees might seem scary, but they are so important! During this virtual Read & Seed we will read Are You a Bee? by Judy Allen and Tudor Humphries. Participate in a Movement/Music/Finger Play activity: singing Bumble Bee, Bumble Bee. We will also create our own pinecone bee, and go on a bee hunt. This lesson is aimed at connecting young learners to their natural world and promote school readiness skills. This Read & Seed activity is presented by The Gardens on Spring Creek by the City of Fort Collins. https://youtu.be/kMF8TZ0TaN4

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Agriculture
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Early Childhood Development
Education
English Language Arts
Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Literature
Performing Arts
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
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The City of Fort Collins
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The Gardens on Spring Creek: Read & Seed
Date Added:
02/06/2023