Lending Library Request Form Please complete all information listed below, indicate the kit you are requesting, and email this form to [email protected]. An ECMI Project Coordinator will respond to your email to set up a specific date/time for you to pick up your requested kit at Duquesne University.

Teacher/Director Name: Teacher/Director Email: School Name: School Address: City: State/Zip Code: School Phone: Teacher/Director Cell Phone: Date Kit Requested:

Please request a kit by typing an X in the appropriate box below. For your reference, the next page includes a description of each kit.

Exploring Instruments Exploring Voices Keep a Steady Beat Winter Music Spring Music

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 Exploring Instruments: This kit contains a variety of unpitched percussion instruments, such as hand drums, rhythm sticks, cabasas, egg shakers, guiros, sandblocks, and more! Children can explore and discover different instrumental timbres and create sound effects to stories. These instruments can also be used for steady beat and rhythmic activities. Instructions and helpful hints for teachers are provided.  Exploring Voices: This kit contains a Snowy the Owl puppet, vocal exploration aids, and step bells to help children with vocal inflection and singing in tune. Instructions and helpful hints for teachers are provided.  Keep a Steady Beat: Children can develop a strong sense of beat with a small stuffed friend named Lovey Bear, heart icons to represent the heartbeat, hand drums, rhythm sticks, and a lollipop drum. A CD of listening examples is also included. Lesson ideas are provided.  Winter Music: Continue your wintertime classroom themes by incorporating music, movement, and children’s books. This kit includes hand drums, wind chimes, a Snowy the Owl puppet, snowflake manipulatives, a recording of the song High and Low, and various winter-related children’s books. Lesson plans are included.  Spring Music: Springtime themes can be reinforced with this kit. Songs focusing on rain, planting seeds, and springtime weather are included. This kit also includes a variety of instruments, children’s books, rainbow ribbons, and manipulatives focusing on this exciting time of year.