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

Down

1. Thelonius______

2. _______Brubeck

3. ____Basie

4. ______Fitzgerald

5. _______Davis

6. _______Armstong

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.

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Stacey Tyler

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