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Learning Musical Terms

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students observe and discuss the following musical terms and their symbols: staff, measure, bar line, double bar line, treble clef, bass clef, time signature, common time, cut time, quarter note, half note, dotted half note, whole note,...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Indian Music Revision

For Students 3rd - 7th
In this music worksheet, students will complete 11 cloze sentences by using a word list. Then students will find the same words in a word search.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Musical Rhythm and Pulse

For Students 4th - 5th
In this music worksheet, students examine the use of rhythm and pulse in musical pieces. They practice clapping beats that include rests in the given rhythm boxes. They compose their own beat in a rhythm box.
Worksheet
MakingMusicFun.net

Intervals! (Fifth) | Free Music Theory Worksheet (Digital Print)

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this music intervals worksheet, students study the music notes in fifths. Students write the fifth notes up and down in the treble and bass clef. Students label the two notes with the correct alphabet letter.
Worksheet
MakingMusicFun.net

Ready, Set, Go! Intervals (Unison-Octave) Speed Test | Music Theory Worksheet (Digital Print)

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this music worksheet, learners identify 10 musical intervals based on the musical notes they see.
Worksheet
MakingMusicFun.net

Intervals! (Seconds) | Free Music Theory Worksheet (Digital Print)

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this music intervals worksheet, students learn the exact size of an interval by counting the number of notes from the first to the last. They write seconds up and down from the printed note in the treble and bass clef. Then, they...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Learning Musical Terms

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate musical instruments and sounds by defining musical terms.  For this music appreciation lesson, students define many vocabulary words and utilize a study sheet for memorization.  Students are quizzed on the...
Worksheet
MakingMusicFun.net

Intervals! (Thirds) | Free Music Theory Worksheet (Digital Print)

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this music learning exercise, learners work with thirds as intervals in sheet music. They write thirds up and down before labeling the notes with their correct alphabet letter. They complete two examples.
Worksheet
MakingMusicFun.net

Intervals! (Fourth) | Free Music Theory Worksheet (Digital Print)

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this music intervals activity, students write fourths and name the two notes in their correct alphabetical order. Students name fourteen notes.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Topic - Musical Instruments Word Search

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this musical instruments word search puzzle learning exercise, students locate and identify the 20 instruments from the word bank. The words may appear horizontally or vertically.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pop Art Ice Cream Painting

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create paintings of ice cream treats using Pop Art as an inspiration while developing skills in painting in this 4th through 6th grade Art lesson. Included with the lesson are possible extensions and suggested evaluation rubric.
Lesson Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

Jazz music, Dance and Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students view video and become familiar with the type of movement in jazz dance.  In this jazz dance instructional activity, students write a cinquain about jazz dance.  Students recognize the elements of jazz dance and the...
Writing
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Music In Our Schools Month

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this writing an essay about music worksheet, students use writing prompts to write about their favorite type of music. Students write 1 essay.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Musical Alphabet: Skipping Down

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners explore the concept of skipping down while reading music.  In this skipping down instructional activity, students review how to step up, skip up, and step down when reading music.  Learners then learn how to read music...
Lesson Plan
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Pictures at an Exhibition

For Teachers K - 8th
Students discuss how the musical composition was created. They listen to "Pictures at an Exhibition." Students discuss how the Promenade in the beginning of the opus is based on Mussorgsky walking through the exhibit of paintings....
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Play a Painting

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine music and art together and see the distinctive elements of each form. It can also demonstrate how their characteristics are interrelated. They create musical interpretations of two works of art.
Lesson Plan
Weston Wood

Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th Standards
Create a cross-curricular learning experience based on the children's book Joseph Had a Little Overcoat with this collection of learning activities. Starting with a class reading of the story, children go on to learn about the...
Activity
San Francisco Symphony

Lesson Ideas for Any Music

For Teachers K - 12th
Music is a wonderful tool you can add to enhance the learning process for every subject. Here is a list of music selections that are categorized by subject, along with some neat teaching suggestions. You'll find songs suited to...
Lesson Plan
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Northwest coast Button Blanket Art

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars explore artistic design by viewing video clips on the Internet. In this blanket making lesson, students view tutorial videos in which they discover the creative process in button blanket designing. Young scholars create...
Lesson Plan
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Investigating Brass Instruments and Pitch

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students observe the sounds of different brass instruments in order to understand how to create different pitches. In this musical instructional activity, students create a "brass" instrument from everyday household objects. The students...
Lesson Plan
The Kennedy Center

Fairy Tale Variations

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Here are two great lessons that work together and are inspired by the Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods. Young writers and actors will retell the story of "The Frog Prince" through games, improvisational script writing, and...
Worksheet
Music Fun

Practice Boards

For Students K - 8th
FACE it. Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit! (And so do girls.) Provide young musicians with music worksheets that enable them to practice musical notation. The six boards included in the packet are templates that focus on notes, rests,...
Handout
Music Fun

Overhead Transparencies

For Teachers K - 12th
Classroom and studio music instructors will find this packet of 10 transparencies of major value. Images of treble and bass clefs, notes and rests, note values, time signatures, and music language are included. Nothing minor about this...
Unit Plan
University of Kansas

Newspaper in the Classroom

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Newspapers aren't only for reading—they're for learning skills, too! A journalism unit provides three lessons each for primary, intermediate, and secondary grades. Lessons include objectives, materials, vocabulary, and procedure, and...

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