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Note Names and Note Values-An Interactive SMART Board Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students discuss note names and symbols. For this music lesson, students identify note names and values. Students play a game using the SMART board in which they identify note names and values.
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Storyline Drum Circle

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students perform story songs. In this rhythmic motives activity, students practice melodies, variations, and accompaniments as they read Peter Seeger's Abiyoyo and create compositions to present it as a story-song.
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Halloween Music Lesson Plans

For Teachers K - 5th
Halloween music lesson plans can provide students a motivating way to learn about writing, dance, and rhythm.
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Move Over, Beethoven

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create an ABA introductory composition using various, student-chosen sound sources. They create their composition in small groups and perform them for the class.
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Peter and the Wolf: Instrument Listening Game

For Teachers All
Listening to this piece of music will foster the students ability to recognize individual instruments and the sounds they create. The art of music inspires the students to become sensitive listeners able to make aesthetic judgements and...
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Peter And The Wolf: Instrument Listening Game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students match the instruments to the characters they represent in Peter and the Wolf. They also identify the instruments by name from listening to their sound.
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The Rhythm of Life - Episode One - Rhythm

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars investigate the role of music in their lives. They examine rhythm as the building block of music and examine how to appreciate music. They investigate music as a tool in health and healing.
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Folk Games

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Young scholars listen to the poem, "De Cunjah Man" and discover how and why this language came into existence. They are introduced to the idea that songs are a way of expressing human feelings and name a song that makes them feel happy...
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I Am A Musician- Musician as Listener

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners listen for sounds as they complete another activity. Hearing a triangle, they raise their hand once they hear it. They discover that to be part of an ensemble they must listen to themselves and others around them. They discuss...
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Learning Different Rhythmic Patterns

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders observe and demonstrate different rhythmic patterns including combinations of quarter and rest notes. They discuss how rhythm is created by using quarter and rest notes, clap to a rhythmic pattern, write a rhythm, and...
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"Braiding and Weaving" Dance Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore braiding and weaving through dance. They create their own braiding and weaving dance.
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Describing Clearly Ideas, Feelings, and Experiences

For Teachers 1st
First graders describe, using vocabulary words, ideas that relate to birthdays/birthday parties.
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Identifying Words That Name Actions

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify words that name actions as they discuss a variety of Thanksgiving activities.
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LET'S PLAY

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars explore music, patterns, notes, and instrumentation. They practice the proper technique at a keyboard and perform a simple three note pattern.
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Winter Wonderland

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore various pieces of holiday music. They select a piece of music, record an introduction that describes the style, and record a section of the music.
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Family of Musicians

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students view a video about street musicians/singers and then perform in a small ensemble, recognizing that there is no real star of an ensemble.
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Lesson Plans for 2nd grade Japan Unit

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the music and dance of Japan in this five lessons unit. Aspects of Janpanese and American culture are compared. The food, holidays, clothing, and the school day of the two countries are discussed.
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Dance

For Teachers K
Students participate in different types of dances in which they explore time, action and other elements of dancing. They dance with a group or a partner and explore how to work together.
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H1 Classic Presents: Paul McCartney: Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, Lesson 2

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students are introduced to the various songwriting techniques of Paul McCartney. They explore and compare the basic melodic, harmonic, and lyrical tendencies of the different types of pop music.
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Bossa Nova

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study the creators of a musical style that is a cornerstone of popular music today. They examine how that style was born, grew, and became accepted in its home and around the world.
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Melodic Rhythms of India

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students listen to and dance to the music of India. After listening to the music again, they identify the different types of instruments playing the melody. They explain the tabla tarang and view photographs of people performing the music.
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Ooooh, The Oud

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars listen to a performance of the instrument, oud. After watching a video, they discover how many parts of the world it is used in and locate the countries on a map. They compare and contrast the oud with other instruments...
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Jingle Bells In Four Parts

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students perform for the class a four-part arrangement of the holiday song Jingle Bells (provided) with each student performing one part of the arrangement. This lesson requires the use of a networked keyboard lab.
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Tap Your Feet

For Teachers K - 1st
Students access a website to examine how to follow a pattern. They find their own heartbeats and tap along with the beat. They access a second website to design a class composition before showing how they keep the beat. They use...

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