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Interactive
PBS

Classics for Kids: Match the Rhythm

For Students K - 1st
Match the rhythm you hear by hitting a section of the drum set.
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Interactive
Google

Chrome Music Lab

For Students K - 1st
Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments.
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Lesson Plan
California State University

Island Maracas

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A great multicultural art lesson that also connects visual art to music. Students create a set of paper mache maracas emphasizing rhythm and expression in the painting details. Upon completion students will have the opportunity to try...
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Activity
ESL4kids

The Efl Playhouse: Songs for Young Learners

For Students 3rd - 5th
Music, songs and dance have always been instrumental in teaching students. This site offers fun and entertaining activities along with teaching tips that enhance the students' awareness of sound, numbers, body parts and more. Intended...
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Activity
ESL4kids

The Efl Playhouse: Chants

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is not your typical a, b, c nursery rhyme song. This site presents a short and fun outline of many different chants, songs and exercises.
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms F R

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The second of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, F - R, covers forty-seven terms from "Fable," to "Romance."
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eBook
Other

Ruby Cliff Computing: Learn Guitar Theory With Virtualoso Guitar

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a fantastic site that teaches basic music reading, especially as related to the guitar. Although the site is a promotional software site, the trial version is excellent by itself.
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Activity
Phil Tulga

Phil Tulga: Counting Music: How Music Is Counted and Measured

For Students 3rd - 8th
This fun interactive counting activity is great for students to create their own rhythms. Students can use 4/4, 3/4 or 2/4 meters to input and listen to their own rhythms instantly.
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Activity
Phil Tulga

Phil Tulga: Unifix Drum Machine

For Students 3rd - 8th
Get creative making your own beat patterns with this fun interactive unifix drum machine. Simply click the yellow squares wherever you like and then hit the play button. You can also choose from example drum patterns.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Iambic Pentameter

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This encyclopedia entry for iambic pentameter provides examples of poetry and explanations of the meter's purpose.
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Handout
Toby Rush

Music Theory: Rhythm [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A music theory worksheet regarding rhythm and its relationship to note/rest length. Requires Adobe Reader [PDF].
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Unit Plan
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Rhythm

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To gain an understanding on durations, time signatures, tempo, and the basic elements of rhythm
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Website
Other

Ear Training Institute: Ear Power

For Students 9th - 10th
Download this software and set up drills on your own level for melodic and harmonic intervals. Learn to recognize and build chords. There is a small cost for the full version (click on "Complete Package") and with a microphone, the...
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Website
Other

Susan Kramer: Body Mind Rhythmic Movement

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Susan Kramer's online book is available as a free resource for teaching basic movements and dance skills. The text is broken down into seven sections. You can access information on anatomy, rhythms, creative movements, rhythmic...
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Handout
Other

Rgs: Rhythm, Meter, and Scansion Made Easy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page was created by a 5th and 6th-grade teacher "As a quick reference for [his] students when studying rhythm," although older students could easily use it too. The following terms are defined: rhythm, meter, scansion, iamb,...
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Article
Other

Music Theory First Aid for Struggling Students

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides music theory information on such topics as rhythm, intervals, scales, chords, etc. Also, there is a fine section which describes the basic concepts of form and structure.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: 2003 Music Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Play musical Jeopardy! Test your knowledge of sound, instruments of the orchestra, music elements, music notation, and rhythm. Play this interactive game by yourself, or with a friend!
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Article
Other

Music Concepts Online: Notation: Basic Rhythm and Pitch

For Students 9th - 10th
This site looks at rhythm, terms and concepts, which include rhythm, score, note (parts of and kinds), rests, tie. Great information.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Sid the Science Kid: Sandbox Symphony

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Make an interesting musical composition by choosing from a menu of traditional and nontraditonal instruments.
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Handout
Music Education

Learn About Instruments: The Percussion

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn general information on different percussion instruments such as the snare drum and cymbals and hear sound clips of these instruments being played.
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Interactive
New York Times

New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Musical Instruments

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An interactive and printable crossword puzzle developed by the New York Times Learning Network. The theme of this puzzle is Musical Instruments.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Sound Devices

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A seven-part learning module with links to videos and a website to use while learning about literary devices relying on sound including alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme, repetition, and poetic meter and rhythm.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Rhythm Vote

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This quiz will tell us how easily we can identify note lengths, add note lengths together to form rhythmic measures, and identify problems in simple rhythm counting.
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Handout
Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Snare Drum

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use this resource to learn about the percussion family of instruments, especially the snare drum. Find out how it helps the orchestra make music. Use RealAudio or Windows Media Player to listen to the snare drum by itself and with the...