Broadway Teaching Group
Acting the Song
Get to know the meaning behind the song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" from the legendary 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Groups of two take the roles of performer and questioner. Performers sing lines of the song while questioners...
Classics for Kids
Composers and Their Countries
How many of the world's greatest composers were born in Austria? Or Germany? Or the United States? An interactive map provides young musicians with information about prominent composers in the last few centuries, as well as the periods...
California Department of Education
Instruments of Change: Making a Simple Stringed Instrument (CTE)
What materials and skills does a person need to build a simple working instrument? With the first of four lessons from the Changing One's Tune: A Music Therapy STEM Integrated Project series, scholars learn about the basic structure of...
Curated OER
Music Conducting: Classroom Activities
Turn the class into a percussive orchestra and let the kids take over as conductor. You'll explain a few ins and outs of what a conductor does. Then you hand over the baton and let your budding Beethovens conduct each other as they...
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What's Outside the Window
What do your students see when they look outside the window? This project lets their imagination go wild, and lets you see what kind of daydreaming they do best. They each draw, paint, and color an image of what they imagine as they are...
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CREATIVE PRINCIPLES
Jr. high learners review the basic principles of design (balance, unity, movement, rhythm, pattern, contrast and emphasis) by watching a video by Gerald Brommer. Then they provide "aerobic exercise" for the right side of their brains by...
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Platinum Perspectives
High schoolers redesign a particular album cover of their choice in this excellent high school Art instructional activity. The instructional activity suggests using Adobe Photoshop and glossy inkjet paper for the final presentation of...
Oklahoma City of Museum Art
Harlem Renaissance
Individuals expressed the Harlem Renaissance in diverse forms of art, ranging from poetry to photography to painting. Learners explore pieces using a carefully curated collection from the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Included lessons ask...
MakingMusicFun.net
I Thought That I Was Crazy | Free Music Theory Worksheet (Treble Clef Note Names)
In this music poem instructional activity, students spell out the music words using the music notes instead of alphabet letters. They also determine the 10 note names and write them in the blanks to solve the puzzle.
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Musical Notes on a Score
In this music notes worksheet, learners cut out 9 music notes and paste them correctly on the lines and spaces of a music staff. There are hints for where to place each note.
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Music: The ABC's
In this music reading activity, students study a diagram of the notes on a music staff and draw the 3 groups of notes on a blank staff included at the bottom of the activity.
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CodeMaker! | Music Theory Worksheet - Bass Clef Note Names
In this music notes activity, students create as many words as possible using only the letters in the musical alphabet. They then turn the letters into code by writing the words in music notes on the staff above the word.
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It All Adds Up | Free Music Rhythm Worksheet II
In this music note activity instructional activity, students identify the music notes and add them together to complete the music note equations.
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Ready, Set, Go! Note Name Speed Test II - Music Theory Worksheet
For this music notes worksheet, students name 10 notes in a timed activity. Students then repeat the activity and try to better their times.
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Ready, Set, Go! Note Name Speed Test IV - Music Theory Worksheet
In this music notes worksheet, learners name 10 notes in a timed activity. Students record their times and try multiple times to improve their scores.
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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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Elements of Music
In this elements of music worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer as they add 4 elements of music along with their symbols and descriptions.
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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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CodeMaker! | Music Theory Worksheet - Treble Clef Note Names
In this musical alphabet learning exercise, students try to make as many words as possible using only the letters of the alphabet. Students try to make 16 words.
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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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Ready, Set, Go! Note Name Speed Test I - Music Theory Worksheet
In this notes worksheet, students name the notes C through G reading sheet music.
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Lesson Exchange: Musical Mathematics (other, Music)
Students explain note values and relationships, especially dotted rhythms and tied notes by giving them a visual, hands on representation
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Music and Emotions
First graders examine how certain types of music can evoke emotions and mental images. They fold a piece of paper into four equal sections, and create a picture of what they are visualizing in each section while listening to four...
San Francisco Symphony
Lesson Ideas for Any Music
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...