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Worksheet
Sheet Music

Sheet Music and Fingering: When the Saints Come Marching In

For Students 3rd - 6th
Here is a great resource for all those music teachers! Included are two sets of sheet music, for the songs, "When the Saints Come Marching In" and "Ten Little Indians." Learners are given their own sheet music. They write in which...
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Interactive
Hookshot Creative

Compose Your Own Music

For Students K - 12th
Channel the masters with an interactive music composition activity! Learners use the online tool to create their own masterpieces one measure at a time.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Kindergarten Music Lesson

For Teachers K
Singing, clapping, moving up and down with the melody, it all sounds like a great music lesson. Kinder-musicians sing three different songs to practice memory, speaking, and movement skills. They'll move to the melody, build memory with...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Musical Accent Activity

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Budding instrumentalists take on the task of reading accent marks and playing them correctly. They practice playing the provided rhythm or beat, focusing on emphasizing notes that have accents over them. The handout included provides...
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Curated OER

A Guide to Great Home Music Practice

For Teachers 6th - 12th
To be the very best musician one needs to be wiling to practice at home. Here is a handy guide to give your young musicians a leading edge on home music practice. It includes a warm up, cool down, suggestions for setting goals and for...
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Handout
Midwest Clinic

Latin Rhythms: Mystery Unraveled

For Students 6th - 12th
There is an indescrible energy to Latin American music—but if you know your music theory, it's not so indescrible after all. A thorough packet provides definitions for terms like bolero, charanga, shekere, and tumbao before listing...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Transferring Rhythmic Patterns From Music to Movement

For Teachers K - 5th
Students identify and demonstrate movement elements in relation to musical notation. They clap to rhythms, beat on drums, match musical notes to speech patterns and use the rhythms of the their names to create a dance.
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Handout
Music Fun

Time Signatures

For Students 2nd - 12th
You'll never miss a beat with a resource packet filled with puzzles, quizzes, and activity worksheets that focus on time signatures. Don't quaver or rest until you score this packet.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Parallel Harmonies

For Teachers 4th - 8th
What is a parallel harmony? You and your class can explore musical terminology through song. You define what a parallel harmony is, the class identifies parallel harmony in music they hear, and then you all sing some examples together....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Identifying the Beat

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders listen to various songs. In this musical properties lesson plan, 6th graders work in groups to identify musical selections, practice tapping the beat, review time signatures, and identify the meter of different songs.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reading Basic Music Notes

For Teachers 1st
First graders develop skills in reading music notes. In this reading music lesson, 1st graders clap and chant rhythm patterns and learn music vocabulary. Students also match patterns by listening to the teacher perform the pattern.
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Printables
Music Fun

Printable Keyboard

For Teachers K - 12th
Music teachers can scale back their workload with a printable keyboard that can be used to teach young musicians how to read sheet music. The template includes two labeled images; one of the piano keyboard and one of bass and treble cleff.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Learning Refrain and Verse

For Teachers 1st
Instruct your young musicians on the terms verse and refrain. They listen to two songs, and point out the verse and refrain as they occur. Students then play drums when they hear the verse and the refrain. Note: Song lyrics, sheet music,...
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Lesson Plan
North Carolina Standard Curriculum

Rhythm Counting

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Understanding time signatures and rhythm counting are two very important parts of playing an instrument well. Here are three basic lessons rolled into one that prompt upper graders to play their instruments with care. They'll practice...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Keys and Scales are Sets

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Music theory lessons can be very tricky for some people. Children with a basic understanding of musical concepts take on the task of transposing music and identifying scale sets. This would be a good topic to address prior to discussing...
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Fun Music Company

Treasure Island Clues: Intervals

For Students 2nd - 12th
You may know about A, B, and C, but now you can include "arrrrr" to the list of music notes to practice! Here is a fun pirate-themed activity in which young musicians determine the intervals of various notes in the treble clef to work...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Basketball Notes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students add the value of various musical notes to win a chance to shoot a basketball. They compete in teams and consider the values of quarter, half and whole notes to complete related math problems.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Musical Alphabet-Stepping Up

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars explore the music alphabet. They step up from any letter of the musical alphabet. Students practice stepping up or skipping from various letters within the musical alphabet.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Music Notes

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students identify music notes. In this music notes lesson, students toss bean bags between partners the number of times of a note (quarter, half, dotted half, etc) value.  Students also practice underhand tosses. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson Exchange: Musical Mathematics (other, Music)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explain note values and relationships, especially dotted rhythms and tied notes by giving them a visual, hands on representation
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Handout
Fun Music Company

Completing Measures with Rests

For Students 2nd - 12th
Rests. Eighth rests, quarter rests, and half rests are the focus of a one-page worksheet that asks music theory students to complete a series of measures with rests and bar lines.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Jazz and Math: Rhythmic Innovations

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students watch a segment of the PBS Ken Burns JAZZ documentary about Buddy Bolden creating the "Big Four." They compare and contrast the rhythms of marches and jazz based on the examples in the film, and explore notation, subdivision of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Music Twister

For Teachers 3rd
Distinguish the sound of musical notes and correctly name them. In this music lesson, participate in a game of musical twister where the circles are renamed with musical note names. Additionally, display recognition of eighth, quarter,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Learning Musical Terms

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners observe and discuss the following musical terms and their symbols: staff, measure, bar line, double bar line, treble clef, bass clef, time signature, common time, cut time, quarter note, half note, dotted half note, whole note,...

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