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Math, Fractions, and Music

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover the relationship between musical rhythms and fractions. They add musical notes together to produce fractions and create addition and subtraction problems with musical notes. Students complete worksheets and create their...
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Education Closet

Equal Rhythms

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Engage young mathematicians in learning about fractions with this cross-curricular math and music instructional activity. After listening to and repeating different beat patterns, children realize that musical notes are just another way...
Worksheet
MakingMusicFun.net

It All Adds Up | Free Music Rhythm Worksheet IV

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this rhythmic values instructional activity, students explore musical notes and their values. Students add the note values together to get a total number of beats for the two notes in each of the 30 sets.
App
JSplash Apps

Music Tutor (Sight Reading Improver)

For Students 1st - Higher Ed
Elegant in its simplicity, this app accomplishes precisely what it sets out to do: improving the user's sight reading of musical notes. Taking the concept of flashcards to the next level, the designers also add in the element of sound so...
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MakingMusicFun.net

It All Adds Up | Free Music Rhythm Worksheet II

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this music note activity worksheet, learners identify the music notes and add them together to complete the music note equations.
Handout
Music Fun

Time Signatures

For Students 2nd - 12th
You'll never miss a beat with a resource packet filled with puzzles, quizzes, and activity worksheets that focus on time signatures. Don't quaver or rest until you score this packet.
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Curated OER

Note Bowling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice recognition of different music notes and their values and work on throwing cues, scoring, and addition.
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MakingMusicFun.net

Ready, Set, Go! Note Name Speed Test II - Music Theory Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this music notes worksheet, students name 10 notes in a timed activity. Students then repeat the activity and try to better their times.
Worksheet
MakingMusicFun.net

Ready, Set, Go! Note Name Speed Test IV - Music Theory Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this music notes worksheet, students name 10 notes in a timed activity. Students record their times and try multiple times to improve their scores.
Worksheet
MakingMusicFun.net

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

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

It All Adds Up | Free Music Rhythm Worksheet I

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this music worksheet, students add up three columns with the totals for the whole, half, and quarter notes. They also add up the values of each pair of notes and then calculate the column totals. No hints or examples are provided;...
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MakingMusicFun.net

It All Adds Up | Free Music Rhythm Worksheet III

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this music addition learning exercise, students add the musical notes in each equation to find the correct rhythm beats.
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MakingMusicFun.net

It All Adds Up | Free Music Rhythm Worksheet V

For Students 3rd - 5th
For 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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Curated OER

Note Names and Note Values - An Interactive Smart Board Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Using the Note Names and Values SMART notebook file, review the whole, half, quarter and eighth note with students. Students sing "Apple Tree Song." They add body percussion, and then instruments. Students use the SMART apple tree, they...
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Putting Pitch In Its Place

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students focus on reading musical notations. They see, hear, practice and write notations in the lessons to become more independent readers of music. They complete a Rubric for Pitch Worksheet.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Musical Fractions

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this math and music worksheet, students add notes to 4 bars of music so that each measure will have 4 beats. There is a chart provided with the notes and values.
PPT
Curated OER

Humor and Iconicity in Classical Music

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Scherzo, cappricio, divertimento, and rando are all addressed in this look into humor through this classical music presentation. The slide show is very basic, but has some good background on Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Bach. The...
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Protest Music Video

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use iMovie to express the meaning and context of a protest song from the '60s or '70s. They explore different views of the protest movement and gain an understanding of the emotional and political overtones of the times.
Worksheet
MakingMusicFun.net

Ready, Set, Go! Note Name Speed Test I - Music Theory Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this notes worksheet, students name the notes C through G reading sheet music.
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Curated OER

Focus on Harmony

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Harmony is the focus of this band lesson. Upper graders play the Star Spangled Banner, while focusing on harmony, chords, and musical voice. This lesson includes several suggested cross-curricular activities.
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Fun Music Company

Completing Measures with Rests

For Students 2nd - 12th
Rests. Eighth rests, quarter rests, and half rests are the focus of a one-page worksheet that asks music theory students to complete a series of measures with rests and bar lines.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Math and Music: Fibonacci Sequence

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate the mathematical patterns of the Fibonacci Sequence. They determine how math is connected to music, specifically looking at music the uses the pattern sequence found in the Fibonacci Sequence.
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Curated OER

Jazz and Math: Rhythmic Innovations

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students watch a segment of the PBS Ken Burns JAZZ documentary about Buddy Bolden creating the "Big Four." They compare and contrast the rhythms of marches and jazz based on the examples in the film, and explore notation, subdivision of...
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Curated OER

Melodic and Harmonic Intervals

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
If you are teaching music and need a resource to demonstrate melodic and harmonic intervals, you're in luck. This hand out describes and shows what melodic and harmonic intervals look like on a staff. 

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