Star Spangled Banner Stations

Third Graders have started their Star Spangled Banner unit.  For the next couple of weeks they will be working in cooperative groups and cycling through various workstations.  By the end of this unit, students will be able to sing the national anthem from memory, recall key elements of the history of our national anthem and be able to define vocabulary from the lyrics like "perilous" and "ramparts".
 The listening station has several examples of our national anthem.  These boys are listening to Jimi Hendrix's version.
 The story of the writing of the "Star Spangled Banner"
 Write on!  Racing to write the lyrics!
 Sticky note songs
 Lyric Word Search


 Patriotic Poetry Writing Station
 Who was Francis Scott Key?
 So, what IS a rampart?
Star Spangled Treble Clef workstation.  Whew!  This is a hard one!

Teachers:  Get the workstations HERE.

4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 1, 2011 at 2:17 PM

    I love your SSB stations, I tried to develop something like this last year. What exactly are the reading/working on in each of the blue folders?

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  2. Tracy KingJanuary 2, 2011 at 2:31 PM

    You can get more info and even download the workstations at this link:
    http://www.musicbulletinboards.net/purchasepages/otherResources.htm

    Enjoy!

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2012 at 3:53 PM

    Mrs. King,

    How long were the students at each work station? I just purchased your SSB kit over the holidays. It looks great!

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  4. Tracy KingJanuary 4, 2012 at 9:56 AM

    We spent about 12 minutes at each station. This is MORE than enough for some stations and not quite enough for others. This is why I have them keep their papers and we finish at the close of our centers unit. The transition from station to station took a couple of minutes at first, but as they got used to it we could transition in less than a minute from one to the next. Hope this helps!

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