Students will share and compare the historical, cultural, geographical or musical significance of their song choices. The songbook can be used for listening or playing activities. How are state bird, etc. Introduce the activity and have students form groups to brainstorm how they will learn about jazz songs for possible submission. Students must engage in the activity they have agreed upon.
Teachers can facilitate with helping students draw up guidelines for activities.
Students should make a strong connection with the information they are presenting as it relates to their city or locale. Ideally, students would have access to listening to song selections via tapes, C.D.s or student-playing. Students could report back information with group presentations. Students and teachers can compare the types of endeavors undertaken by different schools as the summaries are viewed online along with the songlist. Students could design a Jeapordy-type test to test knowledge of information learned in class and from other cities.