"Take Me Out to the Ball Game"

Perfect for music specialists, classroom teachers, and substitutes, a packet of 18 games includes complete lessons as well as short activities for when you have some extra time at the end of class.

Young musicians experience song, dance, and play of the Jamaican culture. Scholars listen for and recreate beats, they play tunes, make up original dances, and play a game that challenges pupils to pass stones to a specific beat.

Students explore decision making by seeking out advice. In this life problem solving lesson, students discuss problems they encounter in daily life and listen to their classmates discussions of all the available options. Students...

For this review and test-taking practice lesson plan, the classroom is set up like a baseball field. The class is set up into 2 teams and has to answer questions that moves them along the bases like in baseball. The team that wins has...

Pupils review different rhythmic patterns. They identify one pattern as their "magic pattern." Then the game begins of musical chairs. The same rules apply that are part of the original musical game.

You need not be a music resource teacher to play these games with your young musicians. The activities stress dynamics, beat, and rhythm, while flashcard familiarize kids with musical terms.

Young scholars sing and chant various songs keeping a steady beat, or pulse, while performing as a group in this early-elementary level General Music lesson plan. Emphasis is placed on the use of Solfege syllables and the song "Singin'...

Students identify quarter, half, whole and eighth notes and rests, use the different colors of M&M's to represent the different notes and rests and learn a new song and associate song with actual rhythmic patterns

Young scholars practice and focus on keeping a steady beat. They review tempo the speed of music. Students access the playing of instruments on both a steady ostinato and also with a steady rhythmic pattern. They improve their hand-eye...

Sherlock Holmes had fantastic skills of observation. Your super sleuths will examine the pattern, rhythm, texture, and color of a painting to uncover the symbolism beneath. A great lesson, that incorporates observation, art analysis,...