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Behind the Beat
Subject Area:
    Social Studies
Use music to explore African American history, from the time of slavery, when African beats were brought to the Americas on large slave ships and spirituals were used to communicate across the fields of plantations. Watch the evolution of ragtime to jazz while studying the Great Migration, Jim Crow laws, and the amazing arts of the Harlem Renaissance. See rebellion in action in Motown music and the Rock and Roll of the Civil Rights movement. If you want to understand history, you just have to look "Behind the Beat".

This ICN will use music, videos, and the Iowa Core Essential Concepts listed below to create an experience that is both fun and educational. It is presented by the African American Museum of Iowa.

Following this ICN session, confirmed registrants receive the complimentary book Eagle Song or alternate title.

Suggested Prerequisites:

Vocabulary:

  • Shakere
  • Caxix
  • Spiritual(music)
  • Underground Railroad
  • Plantation
  • Slavery
  • Jazz
  • Ragtime
  • Renaissance
  • Civil Rights

Additional Teacher Resources:

  1. Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles
  2. If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine
  3. Harlem Renaissance Traveling Trunk. Free to borrow. Must be picked up and dropped off at the African American Museum of Iowa.
  4. Africa Traveling Trunk. Free to borrow. Must be picked up and dropped off at the African American Museum of Iowa.
  5. PBS: Jazz
  6. **Children's Online Activity** National Geographic: The Underground Railroad

Standards: (Hide Standards)

Iowa Core Essential Concepts Applied

Social Studies: Behavior Sciences

  • Understand the changing nature of society.
  • Understand the influences of individual and group behavior and group decision making.
  • Understand the process of how humans develop, learn, adapt to their environment, and internalize their culture.

Social Studies: Economics:
  • Understand the role of scarcity and economic trade-offs and how economic conditions impact people's lives.

Social Studies: History

  • Understand historical patterns, periods of time, and the relationships among these elements.
  • Understand the role of culture and cultural diffusion on the development and maintenance of societies.
  • Understand the role of innovation on the development and interaction of societies.
  • Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues.
Notes:

Sessions are provided at no cost by Iowa Public Television in collaboration with the Iowa Communications Network to PK-12 students and the adults working with or on behalf of PK-12 students in Iowa. If you are not employed by a school district or an AEA please register at library sites only.

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Contact Person:
Abby Brown or Marcia Wych

(800) 532-1290 or (515) 242-4181 or (515) 242-3100
abby@iptv.org
Offering Dates & Times: Registration Deadlines:
October 10, 2012
 Wednesday, 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Audience: Grades 3-5
 		Friday, October 5, 2012
October 10, 2012
 Wednesday, 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
Audience: Grades 3-5
 		Friday, October 5, 2012
January 23, 2013
 Wednesday, 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Audience: Grades 3-5
 		Friday, January 18, 2013
January 23, 2013
 Wednesday, 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
Audience: Grades 3-5
 		Friday, January 18, 2013
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