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Sunday, September 23, 2012

New Promotion!! Receive FREE MP3s of all 50 HistoryTunes for you and your students with download of our 187 page Resource Packet

HistoryTunes has released a 187 page resource packet to accompany the 50 song HistoryTunes collection which tells the 400 year history of America through 50 pop/rock tunes. This packet includes the following:

- A synopsis of the topic of each song.
- The lyric of each song with the key terms (vocab) in bold.
- A full vocabulary and definition sheet for each song.
- A leveled work sheet for each song which provides tiered and scaffolded questions for each student depending their individual abilities. These questions are based upon Bloom's Taxonomy and Depth of Knowledge principles and many TIER 3 questions provided an opportunity for higher order thinking.

To celebrate the release of this resource packet we are offering the following promotion for you and your students.

1)You, the fantastic teacher, purchase the HistoryTunes Resource Packet from our website for 9.99. This 187 page packet arrives immediately as a downloadable and printable PDF file.

2)Email us at historytunes@gmail.com, tell us about your purchase, and let us know the email address you would like your HistoryTunes MP3s to be sent.

3)You will receive the MP3s by 8pm of the day you ordered the resource packet.

4) Now you have the resource packet, your own copy of HistoryTunes, and the ability to give all 50 songs to your students (put them right on their iPods!). Once you have, the possibility is endless!

If you have any question, email us at historytunes@gmail.com. If you are ready to get started, visit our site at www.historytunes.com and look for the big blue button on the bottom left! Offer ends 10/31/12.

Saturday, September 8, 2012

New From History Tunes: Downloadable and Printable PDF Resource Packet!!

We are happy to announce that History Tunes has a new resource available for your Social Studies classroom! A downloadable and printable PDF of ALL of our worksheets is now available from our site. The resources included in this file are a topic synopsis, the lyrics with bold vocabulary, the vocabulary and definitions, and the tiered questions work sheet for EACH of the 50 songs! This comes to 182 pages that YOU can use in your classroom! Now you can print out the lyrics and the vocabulary for your students when introducing the topic/song and use the tiered question work sheets to differentiate and assess!

Here is an example, using the History Tunes song Articles of Confederation, of what you will be able to do in class:

1) Play the song!!



2) While they listen they read the lyrics which have the key terms in bold.


3) They can use the Key Terms sheet to learn the vocab.














4) You can pass out the Tiered Question before or after to assess understanding.














If you are interested in incorporating music into your social studies classroom History Tunes plus the 182 page History Tunes downloadable resource packet is a great choice! Check out our website to get started! www.historytunes.com