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- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn how public opinion influences the way historic events are remembered via music. Study several historic songs and why and how they changed over time. Rewrite a modern song to reflect recent history.
Cowpens National Battlefield
Patriotic Music
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
How are songs and music influenced by our country's history?
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Use catchy music videos to introduce your students to memorable places and stories.
National Park of American Samoa
Enviro Musical Chairs
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
There's a certain mystique about the word “biodiversity” that seems to be associated with images of steamy jungles or wondrous new medicines, but the word more specifically refers to the number of species or 'species richness' of an area. One reason why tropical areas are so fascinating is that they contain the highest numbers of plant and animal species found anywhere on earth.American Samoa sits squarely in the tropics, so we should have a high biological diversity here, but we do and we don't
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this student activity for middle and high school, students listen to popular songs during the Vietnam War and analyze changing perspectives of the war revealed through the lyrics and musical style. Then students create their own playlist or write lyrics to support a cause or critique a current issue.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
The Sound of Buffalo Soldiers! A Musical Bridge to Communities
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Adult Education
How has music influenced your connection to a community? Throughout the history of the United States military, music has been part of the sound experience of soldiers. For the Buffalo Soldiers, music also served as a tool to build a connection to the communities they served.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
LESSON 1 - SAN MALÓ AND INTRODUCTION TO UNIT
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This lesson is an introduction to the book Le Ker Creole. Students will learn about the language of Kréyol, and about Creole culture and music, with a focus on the folk hero Juan San Maló. They will hear a song in Kréyol about San Maló and examine the lyrics to become familiar with the historic figure upon which the folk hero is based.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
Lesson 1 - THE CULTURE CONCEPT
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This curriculum is based on the collaborative ethnography Talk That Music Talk: Passing on Brass Band Music in New Orleans the Traditional Way, by Bruce Sunpie Barnes and Rachel Breunlin, published by UNO Press in 2014. Visit https://www.neighborhoodstoryproject.org/talk-that-music-talk for information on obtaining the book and a full book of lesson plans.
Cowpens National Battlefield
Material Culture: the Fife and Drum
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How does music from the Battle of Cowpens help us understand this historical event?
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
Lesson 2 - THE SOCIAL CATEGORIES OF RACE
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
One of the main conversations in Talk That Music Talk is around race and music. This lesson is designed to be able to prepare students to participate in the experiences that the activists and musicians share with them. Physical anthropologist Ashley Montague called race “man’s most dangerous myth.”
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Bleeding Kansas
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Travel trunk containing math activities, music activities, and science activities relating to the Bleeding Kansas period.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
Lesson 7 - BECOMING A CULTURAL INVESTOR
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
In this unit, students will move beyond the days of the classic Civil Rights Movement and into contemporary times. Reading Jerome Smith’s chapter in Talk That Music Talk, they will learn how Civil Rights and music were combined together in a youth organization in New Orleans called Tambourine and Fan. Using the concept of a “cultural investment,” students will then create a presentation about their own community.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
Lesson 5 - IN SEARCH OF HARMONY
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Anthony Bennett explains he encourages young people to get involved in music because, “it affects the way you live, and the way that you deal with people. To say it simply, it creates a harmony in you. This peace. It comes in colors.” This lesson will look at how music brought people together in New Orleans by doing a photographic analysis, and then linking the images back to the story lines in the book.
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
“The Rockets’ Red Glare”: Francis Scott Key and the Bombardment of Fort McHenry
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Few people remember the War of 1812 today, but the poem it inspired, almost immediately set to music as "The Star Spangled Banner," has become the national anthem of the United States and a potent source of inspiration and community for Americans in times of crisis.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
LESSON 8: SHANGO AND DANSE CODAN
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This lesson uses two songs that will emphasize the African influences on Zydeco music and the Kréyol language. The song SHANGO references an African spirit/diety that became important in the Creole and Black American community in Louisiana, especially among those who practiced the syncretic religious faith of Vodou, often popularly referred to as Voodoo.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
1958 logo for Billboard Hot 100, Bilboard, wikimedia commons.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
LESSON 2 - REMEMBERING SAN MALÓ
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
In the previous lesson students were introduced to the concept of Creolization, to the historical figure of San Maló as presented in the song, and to Creole/Zydeco music. In this lesson students will focus on gaining greater historical knowledge of Juan San Maló. This will be done through a deep reading of an adapted version of a thesis paper on San Maló by Erin Elizabeth Voisin.
Ninety Six National Historic Site
Lives of Backcountry Children Traveling Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
The Lives of Backcountry Children trunk is designed to enrich your students' studies of the daily life of frontier boys and girls in the 18th century. Along with a variety of artifacts the trunk also includes various lessons and activities. Just a few examples of lesions and activities included are Colonial Clothing, Colonial Children’s Chores, and Colonial Games and Music.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
FLAMBEAUX GLEAUX: THE NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAS FLAMBEAUX STRIKE OF 1946
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
This lesson concerns a strike by FLAMBEAUX, men (generally African American) in New Orleans who carry large torches to light the parades. It concerns reasons a community might become militant and the role of solidarity in such struggles. It uses music created by the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park that is found on the cd Remembering 300- Arrowhead Jazz Band.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
Lesson 6 - THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
When you take the time to sit down and learn from someone who is of a different age with different experiences, the teaching and the learning experiences go both ways. For this lesson, students will read Ray Lambert’s chapter where he discusses growing up before and after segregation with a young musician named Xavier Michel.