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Students will visually and audibly identify a variety of instruments, experiment with different sound sources and classify instruments. Over the course of the project, students will learn how the African culture used music and developed its form of expression throughout history.

Each class will create a mural, giving parents and students an opportunity to collaborate in an effort to beautify the school environment.

Inspired by the Navajo poem, "In Beauty, I Walk," each K-5 student will create a mosaic stepping stone to beautify the schools new playground.

Students will work with fused glass artist Laurie Siegel to create a public art project of fused glass windows for School Without Walls.

C3 is a nine-week project where students use computers to create and refine their own musical compositions. The project culminates with a class performance and recording of each piece.

6th graders will produce a 4-5 minute "Claymation" short film. The films will highlight aspects of the historical or contemporary figure chosen by each student to feature in the biography. The project integrates social studies and language arts curriculum.

4th - 8th grade students interested in pursuing study in vocal music, a quality vocal/choral music enrichment with rigorous study in vocal music and choir are provided a repertoire of the choir activities that also enhance character education.

Maryland

Students will experience African drumming circles, spirituals and songs of hope, as well as a symphony trip highlighting Jazz.

The club offers 6th - 8th graders an after-school improvisational theatre program and musical production workshop to create, produce and perform for the community.

Students will work with a professional poet, on several styles of poetry where students will read, write and recite their original poems to each other and to younger students. The culminating activity is an evening of "coffee house" poetry reading of student works.

Severely handicapped students will connect paint and music to motivate them to develop the freedom to express themselves in connecting the two media.

Students will attend performances of, "Once Upon an Opera," where they will learn that opera is a powerful combination of many art forms including music, drama, dance and visuals. Students will then participate in opera workshops where a story is acted out in song and dance.

Seventh graders will learn Shakespeare and experience, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," through hands-on instruction under the direction of actors from the Maryland Shakespeare Festival.

Students will work with Cantare musicians Patricia Vergara of Brazil and Cecilia Esquivel of Argentina. The will learn songs, dances, rhythm and about instruments of the Amazon to help increase their understanding of the rainforests.

Fourth grade students will implement "Understanding Poetry through Soundscapes" by creating the literary scene of the poetry through rhythmic sounds and melodic patterns.

All grade levels will create reproductions of ancient Chinese artifacts that will be combined to create a tomb display in conjunction with the school's international night celebration.

This project is a dance residency that complements the middle school physical education curriculum and promotes an appreciation of the diversity of the student body.

Students will examine pre-Columbian artwork and myths attached to the jaguar as the embodiment of the concept of duality. They will work with photographic media to craft a duality self-portrait.

An artist in residence has been commissioned to compose an instrumental and choral piece inspired by the life of Roberto Clemente. The schools music students will perform the commissioned work.

Professional storyteller and oral historian, Candace Wolf, will bring together students and seniors in the community in a six-seek residency to share personal stories. The students listen, compose and present their oral histories back to the elders.

Students will experience the meaningful connections between art forms and other curriculum areas such as social studies, language arts and creative writing. Through drama, students will learn to establish an emotional connection with someone other than themselves.

All students will take part in the design, creation and celebration of a nature-themed mural. The project endeavors to bring the importance of art alive to a student body that does not have an in-school art instructor on faculty.

Students will learn basic skills in animation/computer art and will create an original computer animation short using a script they have developed and written in Language Arts classes.

This project aims to teach students that images can be understood by both the written word and dance. They will discover how to communicate powerful ideas through an 8-dance workshop linking poetry and hip-hop.

Primary children will be introduced to the art of weaving as a part of Montessori Practical Life curriculum and should be more fully integrated into the classrooms.

Students will attend a workshop on Shakespeare and his plays in the Elizabethan Period and transform the classroom into a stage as they undertake literature, art, drama and language exercises set in the Bard's plays.

A collaborative project with the City of Greenbelt where all 5th thru 8th grade students will walk to the community center for a series of visual arts workshops throughout the school year.

Virginia

Students in Autism classes will use the music of J.S. Bach to develop skills in singing and playing music. They will learn to identify the subject of a fugue and understand the concept of reverting and augmenting chords.

Students will paint an 18' x 44' backdrop for one of the dances performed by selected Kenmore dance students and Bowen McCauley Dance Ensemble. The backdrop will be designed and painted by the students in an elective class at Kenmore Middle School.

Students will build a stage installation made of analog television sets. They will create images on the TV screens by manipulating the color tubes and then transfer the video images that appear from one screen to the next. While images play on the screens, the symphonic band will perform as the dance ensemble performs an interpretive piece.

A community-wide program designed to bring experienced music educators and professional musicians to our students and community.

This project seeks to create an opportunity for teachers, students and parents to all participate in the arts together. Teachers will be able to demonstrate their arts-based teaching strategies, students will showcase their learning through the arts and parents will participate in the creative, collaborative and reflective artistic process for themselves.

Students will work together to plant a garden on school grounds and grow their own musical instruments. They will plant, harvest, dry, assemble and finally decorate the musical instruments.

Dana Fisch, Artistic Director of Undertoe Dance Project will create a work to rock music for 3 classes. Students will be involved in all aspects of the creative process and will also learn about being a choreography and/or dance company director, arts manager and more.

For 2nd graders, Artquake means learning about the lives of great artists Matisse, Picasso, Lictenstein, Kahlo, O'Keefe Rivera and Pollock through viewing some of their works at the National Gallery of Arts' East Wing and the Smithsonian's Museum of Art. Students will study reproductions, read biographies and then cut geometric paper shapes, draw or paint in imitation of these masters.

Students with physical disabilities and visual impairment will create works of art after studying various musicians and artists. Students will choose a piece of music as inspiration and using a variety of switches and adapted computer access will create computer-generated pieces of art.

The Young Artist Development Project is designed to help improve self-expression and develop life skills in teenagers with emotional disabilities. The program will allow music students to explore the music industry and create a professional portfolio.

Students will visit the National Gallery of Art to see Robert Frank's "The American." They will re-interpret the themes in their own work and create a Polaroid transfer scene about "Their America."

Third graders will participate in a hand papermaking and printmaking workshop presented as a bridge between the Social Studies and Art curricula. The experience of making paper and printing by hand will help students realize the importance of paper and printing in their own culture - drawing attention to the vast changes that have occurred over time in both Western and Asian cultures.

60 selected students will participate in an upper level workshop by cartoonist Richard Thompson that will last for 3 Saturdays.

Students will consider the question, "What does art tell us about culture?" while designing an art brochure featuring ancient civilizations. The project includes a field trip to the Walters Art Museum to expose students to a wide variety of world art.

All Pennington students will display original art at a school festival. Music students will perform mini-concerts during the day. Special needs students will actually make their own original art - Gyotaku Fish Prints and Cuban Bongo Drums - during the daylong festivities.

Brazilian composer Ney Rosauro will write a 7 to 9-minute commissioned work for the Bishop Ireton Wind Ensemble. This project includes a residency from Thursday evening through Sunday evening. Dr. Rosauro will conduct the premiere performance.

Pre-K students will participate in a play by, Catriona's Castle, by becoming actors and making their own props.

Express Your Self gives students the opportunity to work on stretched canvas instead of paper while exploring 20th century Abstract Expressionism. When the project is complete, each student artist will have a permanent painting that does not require framing, to be kept and appreciated for years.