Teach more through music. . .

Recently, as I've been thinking about the presentations I'm doing on We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song, I've been exploring the excellent website for Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.  I've visited the site many times before, and there are too many inspiring ideas for classroom and other activities to list here, but I am definitely taking notes from these two:  "If You're Angry and You Know It" (have young children use the familiar song "If You're Happy and You Know It" to write their own songs of tolerance and conflict resolution) and, for older students, "Music and the Movement."  Click on over; you're likely to find something of interest.