Baltimore City teacher Gena Proctor and Music Educator Murray Piper developed these resources to help students make deep connections between Ned from Code Talker and how he was impacted by WWII. Students will explore body percussion and visual art, learn about fluency and the connection to musical rhythms, and complete a simulation that puts them in Ned’s shoes as a code talker.

Murray Piper and Rachael Barillari embrace percussion as an arts-integrated medium for exploring concepts in the SABES 4th grade unit, "Music to My Ears." Through an exploration of body percussion, unusual sounds and instruments, and music notation, students will come to a new understanding of how sound can become music.

Explore democratic and authoritarian systems and create a persuasive song about one of the government types.

Explore the 13 Colonies through designing a map & composing a free-verse poem.

Create a visual timeline to illustrate key events of the Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1896) and elaborate on main ideas by creating simple songs.

Teaching Artist Linda Whelihan worked with Sarah Aguda, Arts Integration Coordinator, to create a vibrant and colorful exploration of the second grade Wit & Wisdom Module "A Season of Change." Students will explore the changing seasons by learning how to create visual vocabulary decks, making chameleon-shaped printing plates, and creating crayon-resist nature journals.

Get students on their feet with drummer Murray Piper for a deeper understanding of kinetic and potential energy and circuits! Resources align with SABES Grade 4 "It's Electric!" Unit.

Students examine how music unified labor movements during the Industrial Era by analyzing historical protest songs and creating their own using lyrical substitution.

Students explore the Harlem Renaissance through visual art, historical texts, and Blues music by composing and performing an original 12-bar Blues song from a historical perspective.