This Month™ Jazz Instruments Instant Lesson is a teacher-supported, smartboard-ready learning experience for grades K–5, designed to accompany the Jazz Instrument Matching Game during African American Music Month. Students open the lesson with a listening moment — Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, or Miles Davis, differentiated by grade band — before exploring the origins and cultural significance of jazz, an art form created by African American musicians in New Orleans around 1900. Grade-differentiated cultural context, musical concept flip cards covering terms like improvisation, swing, timbre, and bebop, and a rich set of discussion questions with embedded teacher facilitation notes make this a complete classroom resource. Standards aligned to National Core Arts, Georgia GSE, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, and Michigan.
