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Bluegrass Lesson Plans

Below you will find award-winning lesson plans you may use to incorporate bluegrass music into your classroom or home school.  They have been organized by content categories and grade levels in order to easily identify a lesson plan that fits your needs.

If you have new content you would like to submit, be sure to read about the Lesson Plan Competition offered by the Foundation for Bluegrass Music.  

Discover Bluegrass DVD

The following lesson plans have been developed to go along with IBMA's educational DVD - Discover Bluegrass: Exploring American Roots Music.

Age level: grades 3-8 

DVD Lesson Plan 1

DVD Lesson Plan 2
DVD Lesson Plan 3
DVD Lesson Plan 4
DVD Lesson Plan 5
DVD Lesson Plan 6

 

Early Elementary, K-grade 2

Steady Beat & Fiddle Tunes  - Subject: Music

Crawdad Hole with the "Crawdad" Actors - Subject: Music

Upper Elementary, grades 3-5

Even 3rd, 4th and 5th Graders Can Play Guitars - Subject: Music

The Instruments & Sounds of Bluegrass - Subjects:

Citizenship, Language Arts, Mathematics


Bluegrass Vocal Harmony and the "High Lonesome Sound" - Subject: Music

Middle School, grades 6-8

Beyond Jam Sessions: Hosting a Bluegrass Festival
Subjects: Music, Social Studies, Science, Math, Technology

Bluegrass Band On The Road - Subject: Math

Star Quest - Subjects:  Language Arts, Technology
 
Bluegrass and Break-ups - Subject: Language Arts

Jed's Tennessee Journey    (Tennessee Land Form) - Subjects: Social Studies

Do You Hear What I Hear - Subjects: Music, Visual Arts, Language Arts, Technology

"I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow" : Bios of Bluegrass - Subjects: Music, Visual Arts, Social Studies, Language Arts, Technology

"The Good Times Are Past And Gone" : The History of Bluegrass - Subjects: Music, Visual Arts, Social Studies, Language Arts, Technology

Where in the World are Gibson & Martin G'Tar? : Bluegrass Around the World - Subjects: Music, Visual Arts, Social Studies, Language Arts, Technology

"Be Good To My Little Baby Girl" : Taking Care of our Bluegrass Instruments - Subjects: Music, Visual Arts, Language Arts, Speech,Theater, Technology

Immigration in the Mid-19th Century - Subject: Social Studies
High School, grades 9-12

Brothers, Sisters & The Lyrics of Bluegrass - Subject: Language Arts

Informative Speech - Subjects: Language Arts, Public Speaking

John Steinbeck's Use of Music in The Grapes of Wrath - Subjects: Language Arts

UTunes Your History as a Song - Subject: Social Studies


  



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