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It All Adds Up | Free Music Rhythm Worksheet V
In this musical facts activity, students play the musical notes while racing the clock. Students complete 30 musical facts in a set time limit.
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Music Terms
Students review and define music terms. In this musical vocabulary lesson, students are given a list of terms, asked to unscramble them, then write the meaning of each term.
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Music: Identifying Notes
Fourth graders read the note names in the treble clef staff, including the use of ledger lines above and below the staff. Using Music Ace II, they discover the note names in the treble clef, view examples, and answer questions about...
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Learning How to Sing Rounds
Learn about rounding by reciting songs alongside classmates, discovering the difference between singing together and singing in canon. In this musical lesson, students discover what a "round" is and the melodic effect it can have on a...
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Open Your Eyes To Art!
Pupils help create a colorful bulletin board for classroom art displays in this short lesson for the early elementary classroom. The lesson, which can use a variety of items, includes product ideas and resource links to find very bright...
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Sing a Song of Indiana
After hearing John Mellencamp's song "Small Town," 4th graders are introduced to a brief biography/history of John Mellencamp. They will perform the entire song at the annual 4th grade program at the school.
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Patterns in Dance and Math
Students analyze how repeated body movements and shapes can represent and extend patterns. In this pattern analysis lesson plan, students discuss patterns in dance, math, and everyday living. Students demonstrate a dance using a sequence...
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Standing Waves and Music: Suggested Demonstrations
There are four embedded links in this brief resource that take you to handouts or worksheets that assist young musicians in understanding standing sound waves. They'll play their instruments to show and then discuss different sound...
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Create a Composition
Students select an instrument and create a musical composition. In this musical composition lesson, students invent an original piece of music that is 16 measures long. Students hum and record their pieces.
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Graffiti Project
Students inspect performing arts by participating in a class presentation. In this art collage lesson, students examine the graffiti art created on New York subways and discuss the life of Keith Haring. Students create their own images...
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Singin' Around the Year
Students explore performing arts by singing with their class. In this music appreciation lesson, students collaborate in groups to read and sing songs based on specific holidays such as the Fourth of July or Christmas. Students define...
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Music and Interdisciplinary Connections
Students examine the interconnectedness of different art forms. They listen to music and watch a video while determining the similarities of the themes. They make connections between books, movies, opera, dance, and music.
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The 1980's Series - Music
Learners examine artwork by Keith Haring, and listen to music popular in the 1980s that influenced him. They develop storyboards, and film music videos for their favorite song.
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9 Easy to Make Musical Instruments for Kids
Students create various musical instruments out of everyday and recycled items.
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Musical Words and Pictures
In this musical words and pictures worksheet, students respond to 7 multi-step questions that require them to identify a piece of music and analyze it.
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Wordsearch 3 – Musical Instruments
In this musical instruments worksheet, students locate and circle or highlight twelve words associated with musical instruments in a word search puzzle.
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Musical Instruments Word Search
In this language arts worksheet, students will be searching for words are all musical instruments. Students will locate 34 vocabulary words all pertaining to the topic.
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Marvelous Music Matching Game
In this music worksheet, students match the name of 8 instruments from the left side of the page with the specific part of the instrument that is listed on the right. They do the same with a list of 10 musical terms and their definitions.
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Music
Fourth graders are introduced to the ABA form of music through singing and playing instruments. Using music, they practice reading the notations and improvising melodies. They also sing in duets and trios in various keys to end the...
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Fats Waller, Handful of Keys
Playing piano is great fun and playing jazz is even better. Kids watch a video of Fats Waller playing the song, "Handful of Keys," they then use either a piano key print out or Orff instruments to practice his signature stride piano...
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Treble Clef Quiz Part I: The Basics
This three-part quiz tests learners knowledge of the treble clef by asking them to name the parts of the treble clef, to write the letter names under the notes represented, and to write the note names on the correct line or space.
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Compound Time
To demonstrate their understanding of simple and compound time signatures, young musicians complete a chart by drawing quarter or dotted quarter notes equal in value to the note groups shown.
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Classification of Intervals
Major 2nd, Perfect 4th, Minor 3rd. The number and classification of intervals are the focus of a one-page worksheet that asks musicians to write the intervals above given notes and to indicate the classification of others.
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Writing Major Scales
Designed as an assessment of understanding, this one-page worksheet asks musicians to demonstrate their understanding of scales by drawing C, G, and F Major scales on the provided staffs.