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Acoustic Mirrors

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Investigate sound waves with acoustic mirrors. Using audio software, groups make recordings of musical instruments, both with and without acoustic mirrors. They compare the recordings to see the effect of acoustic mirrors on sound...
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Comparing Values: Comparisons Between Musical Notation and Money

For Teachers K - 6th
Students identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in school, specifically math, are interrelated with those of music.
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Which Instrument is Your Favorite To Listen To?: Graph

For Students 1st
In this favorite instrument bar graph worksheet, students will ask their classmates which is their favorite to listen to: drums, guitar, flute, piano, saxophone, or trumpet? Then students will record the responses to complete the graph.
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Rubber Band Banza

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review ideas about sound and vibration to make their own stringed instrument. They review what a pictograph and bar graph are. Pupils conduct a survey within the classroom to choose the four favorite string instruments and...
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Simple Subtraction with Musical Instruments

For Students 1st
For this simple subtraction with musical instruments worksheet, 1st graders use pictures of three musical instruments to solve the equation.
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Melodies and Math: Creating Music with Non-Traditional Instruments

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Review the 4/4 and 2/4 time signatures in music with a helpful music theory lesson plan. Young musicians experiment with electronic sounds and create their own musical performance using instruments made from materials found in the...
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Musical Teddy Bears Number Cards 1-12

For Students Pre-K - K
In this musical teddy bears number cards worksheet, students cut out and color 12 cards. Each card has a number on the hat of a teddy bear. Coming out of the bear's trumpet are the correct number of music notes to match the number....
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Name That Tune: Matching Musical Tones Through Waveform Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Pupils detect the waveform of musical notes to determine the code for the "safe" in this forensics simulation lesson plan. They use a microphone and tuning forks along with Vernier EasyData on their graphing calculator to analyze five...
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Making Music

For Teachers K
Students create auditory musical patterns. In this patterns lesson, students create a pattern using their hands, feet, dancing, and snapping their fingers.  Students use a recorder to recreate a pattern.
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The Math Of African Music

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students practice rhythms and fractions on African drums in this Music lesson plan mixing Math skills and music notation. The lesson plan also includes ideas for assessment and state and national benchmarks met.
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$1 Math

For Teachers 2nd - 7th Standards
Captivate your class by having them find the value of their names, different zoo animals, musical instruments, etc.,with a mental math lesson. Using the coding formula listed, children learn to fluently estimate and calculate...
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Extendable Bonko

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students create musical instruments to see how the length effects the pitch. In this Bonko activity, students use various size tubes to create a Bonko. Students experiment to observe the difference in the pitch.
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Identifying Coins and Their Value

For Teachers K - 1st
Use the special Tennessee State Quarter as a learning tool. During this instructional activity, discuss why the Tennessee Quarter has musical instruments on it. You can also utilize a worksheet embedded in the plan to help your class...
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Musical Patterns

For Teachers K
Students use musical instruments to create simple patterns. They, in pairs, come to the front of the classroom and create a pattern.
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Musical Match Boxes

For Students 9th - 11th
In this algebra worksheet, students match the boxes with connecting lines by using the same letter. They fill the boxes with the names of instruments. There are 10 names to be found with an answer key.
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Math: Musical Patterns

For Teachers K
Students employ their five senses to interpret and duplicate instrumental patterns. Following the teacher's patterns, students clap their hands and later use instruments such as bells, triangles, or cymbals to create their own "songs."
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Math, Music and Architecture: Kindergarten Geometry and Aesthetics in Music and Architecture

For Teachers K - 8th
Students identify and name different geometrical shapes. In this math instructional activity, students distinguish odd from even numbers. They describe the properties of 2 and 3 dimensional objects.
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Music and Sports

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
With so much talent in the classroom, do your musicians and athletes have related interests? This problem has your learners taking data from their classmates to decide whether there is an association between the two activities. The...
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Tally and Graph

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this survey and graphing activity, students take a survey of 10 friends by asking them to vote for their favorite musical instrument. They fill in a tally chart, track the tally marks, and develop a bar graph with the information.
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American Indian Flute and Math

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate the Math behind Musical instruments in this cross-curricular Math lesson plan on the Native American Flute and waveforms. The lesson plan can be accomplished in 6 days and includes an extensive materials list for...
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Be Sharp and Never Flat

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
An outstanding lesson on music awaits your young composers! They learn about patterns found in music, the different sections of an orchestra, and see the differences between musicians and a composer. Excellent streamed videos and good...
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Music Activity at Family Math Night

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students work with a family member in placing all of the music notes on a staff board. They try to match the rhythm on the rhythm board and show their completed song to the teacher.
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Exploring Number Patterns to Discover Common Factors

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students listen and watch a video to see a drummer beat and find a pattern, while learning about the least common factor. In this lesson, the concept of least common factors is being taught through the use of musical instruments, and...
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Skip Counting to Music

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Your youngest mathematicians skip count by 2's, 5's, and 10's as they sing along to a Hap Palmer song that helps them remember the patterns. Students practice in whole group and then individually with the worksheet provided, using the...

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