Abstract
This project is a culminating experience for a Master of Arts in Education: Curriculum and Instruction with an Emphasis in Arts Education. It creates a curriculum to present jazz, blues, and improvisation to fifth grade students. The author researched in the area of theory and practices in arts education, history of jazz, blues, and improvisation as well as jazz pedagogy and learned new technology to produce background materials for student use. The curriculum was delivered and refined through the research and reflection process by the researcher and students together.