Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Caribbean Music: Calypso and Found Percussion

An excellent lesson plan that helps students learn the role of a music conductor. Students will engage in various activities that allow them to have a hands on approach to conducting their classmates.

Learn about the Mexican Christmas tradition La Posada in this activity. Provided is the music and lyrics to a traditional posada song. The lyrics are available in both Spanish and English.

Two Christmas carols are taught in this lesson plan, Silent Night and O Tannenbaum. Students will learn the carols in German and English. They will also learn the background and history of each of these well known carols.

Engage your students in a lesson that uses music to identify multiples and fractions. Your students will enjoy participating in this activity as they learn and explore music and math.

Here are some great ideas to assist you in helping your students make their own percussion instruments with little or no money.

This is a great resource for understanding and teaching musical forms to students. It thoroughly explains the various forms and provides activities to do with your students.

Explore a set of activities covering motif, opera motif, and melodic themes and movies. Several ideas and procedures are listed to help you teach this musical concept to your students.

This lesson focuses on the use of dynamics in music. Learn what the most common terms mean. Includes several activities to use with your class.

Provided on this website are three fun traditional Mexican songs for children to sing and enjoy. The songs are The Poll Parrot, To Jerez We Will Go and The Gruel. Printable pdf files of the music and lyrics are available for download.

Students identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in school, specifically math, are interrelated with those of music.