Sheet Music Lesson Plans

Students create "Harp" pictures using harp shapes, shoe box lids, paints, old sheet music, and inspiration from Harp music in this inter-disciplinary Art and Music lesson for the elementary classroom. Resource links are included for successful implementation.

Students explore bird songs. In this music lesson, students examine human and bird vocal qualities by participating in an activity. Students then examine spectrograms and compare them to sheet music.

In this lesson students infer America's attitude towards aviation in the early 1900s. In this The Aerial Age lesson, students analyze early 1900s literature, music, advertisements, and popular culture in reference to aviation. In this lesson students represent their analysis of primary and secondary sources through creating a collage, essay, exhibit, compact disc, cartoon, editorial, or sheet music cover.

Students participate in activities in which they apply various techniques of melodic variation. After reviewing sheet music for the song "Marianne", they compare lines 1 & 3, then 2 & 4 and discuss the variations in the song. They continue the lesson on the computer using the program Music Ace in order to create a variation using any of the methods previously discussed.

Students explore how music shapes public opinion.  In this history of music lesson, students examine music lyrics that discuss historical events by examining sheet music and other types of music.

Students examine the relationship between real events and popular culture. They analyze the parts of a patriotic song and its impact on a society. They write their own song to end the lesson.

This lesson has students explore caves. In this cave lesson students participate in scientific observation, research, inference and deduction, in addition to reading, vocabulary, and writing about caves.  The students participate in follow-up activities for each reading selection.

Learners analyze and perform an American social protest song. They describe its historical setting, consider the effectiveness of the music and recognize that popular music is a reflection of American culture.

Students listen to and share thoughts about a piece of classical music. They write a piece of music or poem, and analyze their peers and their own creative processes.

Students analyze and compare two songs from different periods through the Virtual Gramophone website.