Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Land That We Love

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students perform "Land that We Love" using correct posture, correct rhythms, and accurate pitches. Emphasis is also placed on analyzing the purpose and meaning of patriotic songs. Students correctly identify and perform repeats and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Quatrain

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students analyze the quatrain structure and rhyming in the song, "Puddles". They use this format to create their own quatrain lyrics for a song then they share their song ang revise it.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Laideronette, Empress of the Pagoda" from"Mother Goose Suite" by Maurice Ravel

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students are introduced to the active teacher, composer and pianist Maurice Ravel and his masterpiece "Laideronette, Empress of the Pagoda", from Mother Goose Suite by Maurice Ravel. They utilize aural skills to notate the rhythm of the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Major/Minor Chord Building and Aural Recognition in a Computer Lab

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students examine the difference between major and minor chords after hearing them played through Practica Musica. They listen to a song in both major and minor keys using headphones attached to a computer. They describe the differences...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Compare Numbers

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this number comparisons worksheet, students use the table for the 'Enrollment in a Music School' to compare numbers and answer the six word problems.
Interactive
Curated OER

Prepositions of Time--For, During, While

For Students 4th - 6th
In this prepositions of time worksheet, students discover the rules for using the prepositions "for," "during," and "while."
Website
Other

The Piano Education Page

For Students 9th - 10th
"The Piano Education Page" includes a piano lessons and tips, an audition room, a competition calendar, and biographical information on several famous pianists. Have fun listening to piano tunes while learning about this instrument and...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Making Piano Fun

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Angela and her experience with piano lessons. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Unit Plan
Other

Piano Nanny: Piano on the Net

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides extensive piano lessons, utilizing helpful guides complete with audio. Detailed information on the computer configuration needed for this site is given, as well as a 12 note keyboard.
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Music Theory

Music theory.net: Keyboard Trainer

For Students 9th - 10th
A fantastic resource for music teachers and students learning to play the piano. This online quiz can be customized to test students on specific keys. Students can click "Toggle helpers," to check answers along the way.
Activity
Shmoop University

Shmoop: The Piano Lesson

For Students 9th - 10th
This Pulitizer Prize winning play explores looking at the past of many African Americans. Read about the characters and their motivations.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Forte and Piano

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson plan where students learn what forte and piano mean and idenitfy them in music and pictures that represent sounds. Students also will demonstrate forte and piano while singing a song that they learn from a video.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Group Theory 101: How to Play a Rubik's Cube Like a Piano

For Students 9th - 10th
Mathematics explains the workings of the universe, from particle physics to engineering and economics. Math is even closely related to music, and their common ground has something to do with a Rubik's Cube puzzle. Michael Staff explains...
Website
Other

Piano Music Sight Reading Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
Actually this clever site drills pianists on note names and note placement on the keyboard. Kids can access this site at home for practice. Both treble and bass clef are used.
Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: August Wilson

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn more about the famous playwright August Wilson when you visit this educational site. This site features links to several resources ranging from biographical information to lesson plans.
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Music Theory

Music theory.net: Phrases and Cadences

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of phrases and cadences with illustrated examples. Also provides audio clips, and a printable chart at the end of the lesson. By MusicTheory.net.
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Music Theory

Music theory.net: Introduction to Chords

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough description of chords, roots, and triads. Provides illustrated examples as well as audio clips to supplement this lesson.(You may need to download Flash Player to view this site.)
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Music Theory

Music theory.com: Introduction to Chords

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of augmented and diminished triads/ chords. Provides illustrated examples with highlighted vocabulary words,a printable chart, and audio clips to supplement the lesson.
Interactive
Music Theory

Music theory.net: Generic Intervals

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough description of generic intervals with a printable chart at the end of the lesson. MusicTheory.net provides illustrated examples, and highlighted vocabulary terms. (You may need to download Flash Player to view this site.)
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Music Theory

Music theory.net: Diatonic Triads

For Students 9th - 10th
Descriptions of diatonic triads: major, natural minor, and harmonic minor. Provides animated illustrations, and a printable chart at the end of the lesson.
Interactive
Music Theory

Music theory.net: Interval Trainer

For Students 9th - 10th
This online quiz is a fantastic tool to check your knowledge of intervals. Keeps score, and can be customized to fit specific lessons (augmented intervals, diminished intervals, double accidentals.)
Handout
OpenStax

Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Pitch Sharp, Flat and Natural Notes

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the meanings and uses of pitch and accidentals. Including sharp, flat, natural and double sharps and flats, this lesson explains why they are necessary.
Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: August Wilson

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the life of African-American playwright, August Wilson, author of a cycle of plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century, about black American life. He won Pulitzer Prizes for Fences (1986) and The Piano Lesson...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sounds Like Music

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Music can loosely be defined as organized sound. The lesson objectives, understanding sound is a form of energy, understanding pitch, understanding sound traveling through a medium, and being able to separate music from sound, can...

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