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Sherwood, Connie; And Others – Insights into Open Education, 1994
In 1993 Lake Agassiz School in North Dakota received a Knight Foundation grant so teachers and students could participate in a program to learn how to create an opera. The program instructed teachers on how students could maximize their understanding about producing an opera. The school formed a partnership with the Metropolitan Opera Guild of New…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools, Music Education
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White, David A.; Sprague, Cynthia – Gifted Child Today, 2002
This article discusses how a social studies teacher taught her middle school students about the components of an opera and prepared her students for putting on an opera. The development of the opera and how the opera training related to the social studies, language arts, and music curriculum are addressed. (Contains 1 reference.) (CR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum, Enrichment Activities, Gifted
Tunks, Jeanne L. – 1999
A study examined teachers' strategic use of a recommended curriculum through the lenses of the three perspectives of fidelity, mutual adaptability, and enactment. The recommended curriculum under consideration was an integrated curriculum developed to prepare middle school students to attend a performance of the opera "Turandot." For 40…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach