International Projects Model – Hit Parade
Age range: 11 to 14 years old (Primary School)
Duration: 2 months
http://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/hit-parade-project-space
You and your students will select the 5 most famous national songs in your
region. You will research the biography of the singers and/or the history of the
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band that composed each of these songs, the lyrics, the melody and other
curiosities. After this stage, you will share the researched material with the
other project participants, thus enabling the interchange amongst the different
cultures. The final product will be a “Talent Show”, with the students performing
many songs from their own region or another country.
Ask your students to find out about the most famous songs in their region
together with their friends and families. Make a list to discover which are the
1st week most played songs and select the five most voted ones. Organise your
students per interest groups to make a research and prepare a presentation,
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which will be shared with the other project participants.
Support your students to carry out a research on the Internet and other sources
on the music they’ve selected to study: the singer and/or the band, the lyrics,
curiosities and other information that they may find interesting. It is important
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that they also get the audio, so that they can listen to the songs and learn
them. Students will organise all data collected to prepare a presentation for the
following week.
With the material researched, students will organise a presentation that will be
shared with the other project participants. As a suggestion, students may
prepare a PowerPoint presentation with info on the songwriter/band, pictures of
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main events, the song lyrics and the melody. This presentation may also be
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made using Movie Maker or any other multimedia production software. Use
your creativity!
Visit the School Online website and access our exchange area at
http://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/exchange-area-for-hit-parade-project and
share the material produced by your students with all the other participants.
Visit the webpage http://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/exchange-area-for-hit-
parade-project in our portal and collect materials uploaded by other
participants. Share them with your students, so that they can learn songs from
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another region or country. Each student shall choose the one he/she liked the
most and get together with classmates with the same taste in order to organise
a “Talent Show”.
Students will get prepared for the “Talent Show”. Besides studying the melody
in order to sing it, they may use creativity to introduce the song with a
performance or choreography. They may also create costumes and
accessories for the show. If a group has someone who can play a musical
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instrument, he/she may share that talent with the others and help them to play
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the song. Share it in the process record area, available at
http://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/process-record-area-for-hit-parade-
project, pictures, statements and videos to illustrate the outcome of this
initiative.
Set a presentation date at the school to share the results of the project with the
other groups.
Organise a performance programme and send out invitations including the
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shows’ dates and times, so that everyone can join in. On those dates, it is
7th week important that you also invite students’ parents, so that they can watch the
“Talent Show” and learn more about the project.
After this stage, tell us more about the worked carried out in your school. Take
pictures of the show and share this material with us at
http://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/share-final-product-for-hit-parade-project.
Ask someone to film the shows and suggest your students to organise the
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videos produced and upload them to the Connecting Classrooms website. If all
of you agree, you may also upload them to the school website or blog or to an
Internet video sharing website.
Suggestions and Tutorials:
Resources
Click on the links below to find music clips from several artists:
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http://music.com/
http://www.youtube.com/music
Access the tutorial on how to post activities in the sharing area.