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AMBER LANE

Identity: My Name Song, Part 1

Grades: 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 3rd Grade
Subjects: Music, Character Building

Student Instructions

add Add response to open the activity. Watch the instructions on each page. It's important to practice along on the first and third pages to be successful when you create your own song. On the last page, you will mic audio or video video record yourself to share your own name song. check Green check when you've finished all four pages.

Teacher Notes (not visible to students)

Backing track created by Amberlynn Lane using GarageBand. There will be several more Identity activities as students will build this song. Additional Resources: A great book to help with identity work with young people is "This Book is Antiracist" by Tiffany Jewell. Additional teacher resources are available online. A great picture book to use to help students name parts of someone's identity is "When the Beat was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop" by Laban Carrick Hill. This picture book is what inspired this project. Here is a link to part 2 of the project, where we explore Social Identity: https://app.seesaw.me/pages/shared_activity?share_token=M_YvmE4PQ3GsErn5RSs50g&prompt_id=prompt.ceda33b3-a54a-4ce1-ada4-1d4a9101bf9c

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