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Respect - an original song

For one monthly "Respect" theme, a special emphasis was to encourage students to respect their bodies. After searching resources for a related and appropriate song and finding none, the music teacher composed the original song, "Respect Your Body."

Cooperation - an existing song

For "Cooperation" related themes the song, "Cooperation Hop" (Helvering, 1991) has been a big hit. This song is from Sandi Patti's Open for Business album, a great resource for citizenship songs.

Drug Prevention - an existing song

All elementary students were taught the song, "All You Gotta Say is NO" (Brady, 1983) which they enjoyed singing for the Red Ribbon Week during an October assembly.

For more info contact:
Michelle Swanson

Elementary Music Teacher
Price Laboratory School
Telephone (319) 273-2600


For more information contact:
Michelle Swanson at michelle.swanson@uni.edu (319-273-2600)
 Clare Struck at clare.struck@uni.edu (319-273-6189) 
Kim Miller at kim.miller@uni.edu (319-273-3127)