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Exploring Musical Instruments of the Orchestra
Young scholars listen to "The William Tell Overture," identify instruments, sounds and other characteristics of the music. They compare and contrast orchestra music to large band music. Students discuss the musical composition and how...
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Instrument Word Search
For this music worksheet, middle schoolers partake of the looking for the different musical instrument words and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Instruments of the Orchestra
In this music worksheet, students find the words related to the musical instruments of an orchestra. The Answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Acoustical Science
Students explore musical instruments and the pitches and tones they make. In this acoustical science lesson, students create their own string instruments and explore how pitch is altered.
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Musical Instruments
In this musical instrument worksheet, students will study a list of instruments. Students will focus on 20 instruments that are played with the hand and mouth together.
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Musical Instruments: Picture/Word Worksheet #2
In this tracing words activity, students study the musical instrument pictures and then trace the matching words: viola, cymbals, flute, cello, oboe, and bagpipes.
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Exploring the Families of Instruments
Students investigate the families of instruments. In this instrument lesson, students discuss how each instrument family makes their sound. Students then make their own instruments. Students write a paragraph about their favorite musical...
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MUSICAL MYSTERIES
Students explore the orchestra and identify the sounds of common musical instruments.
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Instruments Word Search
In this music worksheet, students find the words related to musical instruments and the answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Science of Sound- Music Sandwich
Students investigate the science of sound. In this music activity, students create sound and vibration by constructing a "music sandwich." Students use craft sticks, an elastic band, and a drinking straw to create the musical instrument.
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Analyzing and Describing Music
Students analyze instrumental music. In this instrumental music instructional activity, students investigate musical works of art. Students describe the instruments they hear and discover the relationship between music and...
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Sounds Like Music
Young scholars define and examine the connections between sound and music and how engineers design instruments. They listen to examples of musical instruments, view a demonstration of a tuning fork and bottles filled with varying...
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Music Listening-What's The Sound
For this lesson, Music Listening-What's The Sound, students practice playing different instrument. Students listen as the instruments are played to determine the sound of each instrument. Students will match the instrument to the sound....
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Write Your Own Rap
Third graders create a rap using basic AB form composition. Evaluation of performances are based on rubric formed during the first lesson by all students. This three to four day lesson culminates in student performances and evaluation.
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Composing Music
Students explore music appreciation by reading sheet music. In this musical score analysis activity, students utilize their individual instruments to play the song "Peter and the Wolf." Students listen to an online version of the song...
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Composing Music
Students explore music appreciation by creating their own music pieces in class. In this music composition lesson, students collaborate in small groups with their instruments and compose a short song which they will play for class....
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St. Patrick’s Day
Traditional Irish music can bring even the most stoic audience to tears. This St. Patrick's Day, explore the lilting flutes and mournful ballads of the Emerald Isle with a interactive and inspiring music lesson.
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The 5 Elements of Music
A series of activities teach young musicians that they don't need a room full of instruments to make music. The second activity in the Amani Project has participants use their hands, feet, and voices to demonstrate the five elements of...
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19th & 20th Century Composers: Exoticism
VH1 Music Studio has put out another great lesson plan that incorporates analysis, compare/contrast, and musical terminology. Kids will listen to the song "Habanera" considering the use of specific instruments in evoking a sense of...
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Alicia Keys, Songs in A Minor
Need a musical lesson for your drama or performing arts class? VH1 has put together a really neat lesson, in which learners use biographical information about Alicia Keys to write and perform a one-act musical related to her life. This...
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"Movies That Rock": Moulin Rouge
Upper graders explore musical film and the Bohemian lifestyle common in Europe during the turn of the century through the musical Moulin Rouge. After listening to (or viewing) songs from the movie, they discuss the Bohemian era and how...
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Jazz in America
Students participate in a class discussion about jazz music, compare improvisation with regular conversion, listen to various jazz musicians and compare and contrast their individual sounds.
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Recorder Fingering Worksheets
High notes and low notes. Sharps and flats. Recorder players perfect their fingering with a series of music worksheets that ask them to practice identifying correct fingering patterns and connecting these patterns to the...
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Instruments Used in Folk Music
In this folk music instruments worksheet, learners read about the banjo and the mandolin before they are presented with 2 activities they may complete to learn more about folk music.
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