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Download full textBozung, Richard – 1996
This paper addresses the simplification of music as a way to introduce all beginners to making music. Creative play is emphasized to encourage students to feel ownership of the music they create. Suggestions are given for improvisation to known songs with small guitars, ukuleles and dulcimers. The paper advocates a return to the roots of music…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Expression, Early Childhood Education, Improvisation
Rubin, Janet; Merrion, Margaret – 1995
This book presents sequentially ordered activities designed to foster young children's native creativity. The book is organized in three parts. Part 1: "Unleashing Your Creative Potential," introduces the types of activities found in the body of the book and provides teaching suggestions. Part 2: "Activities, Activities, Activities," gives a…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Dramatics, Creative Expression, Dramatic Play
Shapiro, Stephen R., Ed.; Place, Richard, Ed. – 1973
Since 1970, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts has sponsored educational programs in which artists participate actively in the classroom with students and teachers. This book contains eight case studies showing the effects of visiting artists in eight Connecticut schools. Topics of these studies are song writing, dance movement in suburbia,…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Artists, Case Studies, Class Activities
McDonald, Nan; Fisher, Douglas – 2002
This book shows that children innately learn a great deal about the arts. The book argues that involvement and immersion are the ways in which children feel welcome to write, move, create, draw, and otherwise express ideas about art and music. It offers teaching suggestions to classroom teachers and non-specialists so classroom reading activities…
Descriptors: Art Education, Classroom Techniques, Creative Activities, Creative Expression
Morrissey, Muriel E. – Leaflet, 1969
Individually and in small groups, superior senior high school students in Belmont, Massachusetts, produced multimedia projects illustrating themes or moods through the synchronization of poems, original scripts, drawings, photographs, slides, and music. Projects ranged from a personal photographic interpretation of Delany's poem, "Solace," to…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Activity Units, Audiovisual Communications, Creative Activities
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1983
This curriculum guide has been prepared for use by both the music specialist and the classroom teacher in New York City. It outlines areas of musical subject matter appropriate for students in grades five and six. The materials are presented in six sections. "Rhythmic Experiences" introduces students to a variety of meters and rhythms…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Expression, Grade 5, Grade 6
