Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Music Conducting: Classroom Activities

Turn the class into a percussive orchestra and let the kids take over as conductor. You'll explain a few ins and outs of what a conductor does. Then you hand over the baton and let your budding Beethovens conduct each other as they...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Have your students learning about calypso music with this engaging lesson plan. Learn about calypso rhythms and learn a calypso song.

A series of lesson plans geared toward elementary students. These lessons explore various musical cultures such as Germanic music, Korean songs, Ugandan music and Mexican music. You can use all of the lessons or simply choose which ones...

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 young scholars in a lesson about talking drums. Included are various activities that allow the students to experience the concept of the talking drum.