ACTIVITIES
Incorporate movement into your music lessons with these fun singing games for "The Telephone Rings", "Ring Around the…
LESSON PLANS
Students learn how to solve music and math problems by finding patterns.
Have students choose a familiar song and work with them to develop individual and ensemble singing. Meets National Music…
Students in grades K-4 echo short rhythms and melodic patterns by using their bodies.
Students discover that patterns in music that relate to the Fibonacci Sequence.
CLASSROOM TOOLS
Distribute a group activity that explains the musical relationship between length of instruments and their pitch.
Connect music and math through the study of jazz. In this music lesson, students learn about the use of fractions in…
Use children's literature to help teach music. Explore nursery rhymes with your students and make musical connections to…
Students read and respond to literary selections that either portray the Harlem jazz scene or were written during the…
Use chords to help students in grades 5-8 play simple tunes on a melodic instrument and simple accompaniments on a…
Improve students' breath control and posture with this lesson of singing exercises. Meets National Music Standard 1.
Using children's songs, these lessons show how to teach music while meeting curriculum standards. There are activities…
Teach students to understand relationships between music and other art forms.
In this lesson students explore how many different rhythmic combinations can be improvised in a jazz/blues piece of…
Improve students' vocal techniques while they sing a four-part round with one student on a part. Meets National Music…
Young children can learn to understand the organization of language by learning song lyrics. These music lessons include…
These lessons and activities explore sound and how sound is defined in jazz.
Students will explore creating moods with music, analyze a story, and the create a musical composition that reflects and…
Students will explore ragtime music and gain an understanding of its development in relation to jazz. They will also…
Capture your students' attention with this lesson focusing on "The Riddle Song" to show the pentatonic scale and…
This lesson plan is designed for 3rd grade but can be used in grades K-5. Students will read the definition of poetry,…
Try this Halloween game that is an adaptation of musical chairs!
Teach the relationship of today's pop vocal music and other American vocal genres.
Have students in grades 9-12 perform a varied repertoire of instrumental literature with expression and technical…
