An Awesome, All-American Teaching Resource

by Teresa Jennings

From the ABC song to TV commercials, one of the quickest, most enjoyable ways to learn is by singing. This clever musical unit helps teach all of the states with their capitals, all set to a hot rap track that your students are certain to enjoy. If your school is one of the thousands that has used Teresa's Rap Of The Presidents, you know how much fun this type of project can be... and how much the kids learn!

The Teacher's Handbook includes the entire rap with full accompaniment, as well as teaching suggestions, staging ideas, ideas for customizing the rap and even suggestions for using Orff and classroom instruments with the tune. It also includes several important reproducibles, including a complete Student Part (with rights to reproduce parts for every student, no matter how many you have) as well as a distinctive poster, a reproducible map of the U.S. and other resources for teaching this unit across the curriculum.

It's a great way to teach rhythms, grab the interest of hard-to-reach singers and get classroom teachers more involved with your music program.

This kit is available in electronic format, for download to your computer. These files are quite large and may take a long time to download. Users with a dial-up modem will have difficulty: A high-speed Internet connection is highly recommended. When you expand the compressed file, it will include two MP3s (one full-performance and one accompaniment only version) and a printable PDF of the written music. Questions? Visit the Download Help page (opens in a new window)

The Convenience Combo Kit includes both the Kit with CD and the Downloadable Kit.

Sound clips are available on MusicK8.com