St. Mary's School is a training ground for prospective music teachers enrolled at the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam. Students from the Crane School taking the Practicum in Teaching Elementary General Music course teach half-hour collaborative lessons twice each week to children at St. Mary's. In the fall of 2003, six Crane students embarked on a themed music-composition project implementing all nine National Standards for Music Education. This article describes how the preservice teachers incorporated all the nine National Standards for Music Education into their themed music-composition project. Some ideas for themes are also included in this article.