Discovery Kits

Reserve one of these free traveling kits filled with lesson plans, CDs, DVDs, books, image cards and transparencies to enhance your classroom instruction. Kits may be borrowed for two-week periods. Kits are mailed to your classroom free of charge. The borrower is responsible for return postage to EMP|SFM.

• American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music
  
• Folk Music as Revolution: A Context for Bob Dylan
  
• The Blues as Oral History: Briefcase Full of Blues
  

If you have any questions, contact celebrateeducators@empsfm.org


How to Borrow a Kit:

1. Download and complete the lending agreement >>
2. Return your form by email to celebrateeducators@empsfm.org, by fax to 206.262.3663, or by postal mail to:
   
   330 6th Avenue North, Suite 200
   Seattle, WA 98109
3. We will contact you when your kit becomes available to arrange a mailing or pickup date. We will do our best to accommodate advance kit reservations.
4. Enjoy teaching with the Discovery Kit for two weeks!
5. Complete the enclosed evaluation form and return the kit, either by mail in the enclosed envelope, or by delivering it to our offices during weekday business hours. If you choose to mail the kit back to EMP|SFM, you will be responsible for arranging and paying for postage with a tracking number. If mailing the kit with USPS Priority Mail (suggested) from within the Pacific Northwest, postage will be approximately $6, depending on the kit chosen. Outside of the Pacific Northwest, the cost of USPS Priority Mail will differ depending on distance from Seattle, up to a maximum of $15. Please note that UPS or FedEx may be more inexpensive if your school has a regularly scheduled pick-up.

American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music

EALRs: Social Studies, Music, Spanish Language, ESL-ELL
Grade Levels: Elementary, Middle School and High School

Description: In Spanish, sabor means taste or flavor and is commonly used to refer to good music. What makes the music of the United States flavorful? What flavors distinguish it, and where do they come from? This kit explores the many contributions that Latinos have made to American popular music by focusing on five major centers of Latino music since World War II: New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, San Antonio and San Francisco. See our Web site for preview copies of curriculum materials.

Materials include:

• Curriculum introduction
• Teacher's guide (elementary school, middle school, and high school)
• Student handouts in English and Spanish (elementary School, middle School, high School)
• Student resource materials for classroom use in English and Spanish (all grades)
• 12 Laminated, full-color image cards and notes
• 12 Full-color transparencies of image cards
• Playlist - songs in the curriculum CD and liner notes
• Playlist - additional music CD and liner notes
• Bilingual guided listening CD 1: Bugal� � Hip-Hop
• Bilingual guided listening CD 2: Latin Rock � Rumba
• Bilingual guided listening CD 3: Women with Attitude
• Oral history excerpts DVD
• Laminated, bilingual full-color American Sabor map and timeline Poster (you may keep for your classroom)
• Five laminated, full-color interpretive maps of dynamic cities in Latino Music: Los Angeles, New York, San Antonio, Miami, and San Francisco
• Six Newspapers in Education articles

Delivery method: This kit can be mailed to teachers anywhere in the United States. There is no cost for mailing the kit to your school, however teachers are responsible for arranging the return mailing back to EMP|SFM.

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Folk Music as Revolution: A Context for Bob Dylan

EALRs: Social Studies, Communication, the Arts, Reading, Writing
Grade Level: Middle School and High School

Description: From the roots of traditional folk songs to the civil rights ballads that shook our society to its very core, no other form of music has the amazing revolutionary potential of folk. Folk music offers teachers and students alike the opportunity to generate transformation in the classroom and beyond�to change our world for the better by increasing awareness and empathy across race, gender, and class lines. The artifacts and music included in this kit will help supplement our unique curricular focus on Bob Dylan, his music, and the times he helped change. For teachers of American history, the curriculum kit offers unique perspectives on trade unions, the Red Scare, and the 1960s, particularly the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War through primary and secondary sources. To preview an adapted version of the curriculum, visit the curriculum page.

Materials include:

• Teacher's guide for grades 9-12
• Six laminated image cards
• Joan Baez - Greatest Hits CD by Joan Baez
• Bob Dylan: Folk Music as Revolution CD produced by KEXP
• The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan CD by Bob Dylan
• Folkways: The Original Vision CD by Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly
• Bob Dylan's American Journey 1956-1966 CD produced by Experience Music Project
• Early Dylan photography book by Barry Feinstein, Daniel Kramer, Jim Marshall, and Arlo Guthrie
• No Direction Home - Bob Dylan DVD directed by Martin Scorsese
• The Bob Dylan Scrapbook, 1956-1966 with text by Robert Santelli
• Bob Dylan Primary Source Investigation Kits, with instructions for using with the "Dig Deep" Grade 11 Washington State CBA

Delivery method: This kit can be mailed to teachers anywhere in the United States. There is no cost for mailing the kit to your school, however teachers are responsible for arranging the return mailing back to EMP|SFM.

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The Blues as Oral History: Briefcase Full of Blues
EALRs: Social Studies, Communication, the Arts, Reading, Writing
Grade Level: Middle School and High School

Description: This kit explores the concept of oral tradition and its importance in African-American culture. By studying the content of blues songs, students can learn about the experiences and struggles of working-class southerners who created the music genre, which spanned the legacies of slavery and the South, the development of Jim Crow, the Great Migration, and the Civil Rights Movement. Accompanying films, artifacts, and music will serve to paint a more complete picture of our country's history through the stories and the feelings expressed in the blues.

Materials include:

• Curriculum introduction
• The Great Migration and the Blues lesson plans
• Muddy Waters: A Case Study in the Evolution of the Blues lesson plans
• Nine laminated image cards
• Blues Masters, Vol. 8: Mississippi Delta Blues CD
• The Best of Chicago Blues CD by various artists
• Oral Histories of the Great Migration and the Blues CD produced by Experience Music Project
• Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Muddy Waters CD
• Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues teacher's guide
• Five DVDs from the Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues PBS Documentary Series, including Feel Like Going Home, Godfathers and Sons, Piano Blues, Warming by the Devil's Fire, and The Road to Memphis
• Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues text companion to the PBS documentary series
• The Great Migration text with illustrations by Jacob Lawrence

Delivery method: This kit can be mailed to teachers anywhere in the United States. There is no cost for mailing the kit to your school, however teachers are responsible for arranging the return mailing back to EMP|SFM.

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These Discovery Kits are made possible in part by the Travis Thomas Memorial Fund.