Title - Jazz Musician Crossword
By - Stacey Tyler
Primary Subject - Music
Grade Level - 7-12
Students will find this either very simple or at least fun. If you a have a method of creating a crossword puzzle on your PC, pick at least 16 - 20 jazz legends to enter. Here are some suggestions:
Note from lessonplanspage.com: we took Stacey's suggestions and entered them at the Discovery School site www.puzzlemaker.com/CrissCrossSetupForm.html with the following results.
Across
2. _______Ellington
7. _______Holiday
8. Wynton Marsalis's instrument
Give the puzzle to students as a fun sheet or have them to go to swingmusic.net to find the answers.This is a great extra credit activity.This is a great site for research papers for black history month also.