Musical Instruments Teacher Resources

Here is a complete workbook which leads children as they work through the art of making a musical instrument. The instrument made must be a percussion instrument. The workbook is incredibly thorough and does a good job of leading pupils...

Music, culture, social studies, and plant growth all in one! Kids explore the various type of traditional African instruments that are made out of gourds. They then grow their own gourds and use them to create a wide variety of...

In this inventing a musical instrument, tool and toy activity, students look at all the materials they have available to them and as a team design a unique musical instrument, tool and toy.

Bring some music to your language arts lesson with a reading comprehension activity. Learners read an informational passage about different musical instruments before answering a series of comprehension and vocabulary questions.

Sound, vibrations, resonance, and frequency are explored as learners use music to foster scientific inquiry. They engage in three different sound experiments and follow up discussions to foster a better understanding of how musical...

Using graphics, and an easy-to-understand format, this resource outlines the different kinds of instruments and their characteristics. This presentation could be used as an introduction to instruments for learners getting ready to...

First graders identify different musical instruments.  In this music appreciation lesson plan, 1st graders discover the different groups and sounds of instruments while learning their names as well.  Students write about an...

Students apply the principles and concepts associated with energy and the transfer of energy in an engineering context through the designing and making of a musical instrument. After the accomplishment of the design, students must...

In this spelling by picture-musical instruments worksheet, students use pictures to identify and spell names of musical instruments. Students spell eight words.

In this word scramble worksheet, students choose a letter from each box to create a word about musical instruments. Students complete 8 examples.

Pupils construct and play various musical instruments made from straws and bottles. They investigate how changes in their instruments result in tone changes. Learners change the lengths and amount of water in the instruments and...

Students create various musical instruments out of everyday and recycled items.

In this musical instruments worksheet, learners locate and circle or highlight twelve words associated with musical instruments in a word search puzzle.

In this musical instruments learning exercise, students search for words in a wordsearch that represent musical instruments. Students search for 12 words.

Students study about musical instruments and group them into these categories: percussion, strings, woodwinds, and brass. After discussing these instruments, they independently complete the worksheet.

In this writing prompt worksheet, students learn that May 22 is 'Buy-a-Musical Instrument Day.' Students write whether or not they plan an instrument, how long they've been playing, and why they decided to play the instrument. If...

In this ESL musical instruments worksheet, students assemble the booklet and read about various musical instruments. Students then respond to 6 fill in the blank questions and 4 matching questions regarding the information they read.

In this ESL vocabulary activity, students unscramble names of musical instruments, then fill in blanks with the correct instruments described.

In this Language Arts worksheet, students discover the definitions to 4 vocabulary lists. The lists are organized by category, such as clothing, shopping, and musical instruments.

In this language arts worksheet, students will be searching for words are all musical instruments. Students will locate 34 vocabulary words all pertaining to the topic.

In this music instructional activity, students write the name of a musical instrument that they would like to play. Students do research and list as many instruments as they can find.

Students identify musical instruments.  In this musical instrument lesson plan, students groups instruments into brass, percussion, string or woodwinds. Students complete a worksheet. 

In this musical instruments word search puzzle worksheet, students locate and identify the 20 instruments from the word bank. The words may appear horizontally or vertically.

Mix it up and engage learners in a lesson on music and physical science. Using cups, strings, guitars, and voice, the class will experiment with sound vibration and frequency. They'll use each instrument and fill out a worksheet that...