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Handout
Fun Music Company

Note Values

For Students 2nd - 12th
Note values are the focus of a short worksheet that asks young musicians to respond to short-answer questions and to complete a measure with notes of the appropriate value.
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Musical Note Value

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students will identify each symbol by sight stating the value of each. They will use cardboard notes to who what they have learned so far about the note values creating 4 and 6 count phrases.
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Basketball Notes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students add the value of various musical notes to win a chance to shoot a basketball. They compete in teams and consider the values of quarter, half and whole notes to complete related math problems.
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Lesson Exchange: Musical Mathematics (other, Music)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars explain note values and relationships, especially dotted rhythms and tied notes by giving them a visual, hands on representation
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Music Notes

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students identify music notes. In this music notes lesson plan, students toss bean bags between partners the number of times of a note (quarter, half, dotted half, etc) value.  Students also practice underhand tosses. 
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Reading Basic Music Notes

For Teachers 1st
First graders develop skills in reading music notes. In this reading music lesson, 1st graders clap and chant rhythm patterns and learn music vocabulary. Students also match patterns by listening to the teacher perform the pattern.
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Worksheet
MakingMusicFun.net

It All Adds Up | Free Music Rhythm Worksheet IV

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this rhythmic values learning exercise, students explore musical notes and their values. Students add the note values together to get a total number of beats for the two notes in each of the 30 sets.
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It All Adds Up | Free Music Rhythm Worksheet I

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this music worksheet, students add up three columns with the totals for the whole, half, and quarter notes. They also add up the values of each pair of notes and then calculate the column totals. No hints or examples are provided;...
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Handout
Music Fun

Overhead Transparencies

For Teachers K - 12th
Classroom and studio music instructors will find this packet of 10 transparencies of major value. Images of treble and bass clefs, notes and rests, note values, time signatures, and music language are included. Nothing minor about this...
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You've Got Rhythm

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars study the rhythm value of a half note, quarter note, whole note, and eighth note. They stamp a rhythm pattern and create a clay animation which demonstrates note value.
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Worksheet
MakingMusicFun.net

Ready, Set, Go! Intervals (Unison-Octave) Speed Test | Music Theory Worksheet (Digital Print)

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this music instructional activity, learners identify 10 musical intervals based on the musical notes they see.
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Music Twister

For Teachers 3rd
Distinguish the sound of musical notes and correctly name them. In this music instructional activity, participate in a game of musical twister where the circles are renamed with musical note names. Additionally, display recognition of...
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Worksheet
MakingMusicFun.net

It All Adds Up | Free Music Rhythm Worksheet III

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this music addition learning exercise, students add the musical notes in each equation to find the correct rhythm beats.
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Write Your Own Rap

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a rap using basic AB form composition. Evaluation of performances are based on rubric formed during the first lesson by all students. This three to four day lesson culminates in student performances and evaluation.
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Handout
Fun Music Company

Compound Time

For Students 2nd - 12th
To demonstrate their understanding of simple and compound time signatures, young musicians complete a chart by drawing quarter or dotted quarter notes equal in value to the note groups shown.
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Vitamin A

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students identify and pat the beat. They move to and play quarter notes, half notes, and eighth notes to create a "factory" movement and instrument improvisation. Students get into groups of three. Each person in the group moves to one...
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Orchestra: Focus on Rhythm and Arranging

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High school orchestra is a great place to play music, like The Star Spangled Banner. Upper graders create new rhythms to the old song and perform them with the class. They rehearse their updated versions of the song using their...
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Visualization of Rhythms in 4/4

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate musical notes. In this music lesson, 1st graders discuss the values of each note by counting the beats accordingly.
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Wild and Wacky Warmups

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore vocal music techniques.  In this vocal music lesson, students follow a series of warmup exercises modeled by the teacher, then participate in specific breathing and vocalizing exercises.
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How Do I Measure Up? (Intermediate)

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders compare the relationship between meter in music and measurement in math. They practice sightreading music by determining the number of beats per measure, clapping and counting the rhythm.
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Coin Motion

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize coins and their values and count coin groups. They play a game where when music is turned on they skip, hop, jog and when it is turned off, they go to a spot in the room marked with the same coin or value as is in...
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Rhythm In Motion

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders work independently and with a partner to demonstrate proficiency of steady beat, meter and basic note values while creating written rhythmic patterns for class performance. State and National Standards are addressed.
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Instruments In Action

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read and demonstrate eight measures of four beats. In this music reading lesson, students read and demonstrate through movement their mastery of eight measures of four beats. Students also classify instruments.
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Spooky Notes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders move to, sing, compose, and interpret various musical techniques through the use of "America", Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers", and a song called "Skin and Bones". Emphasis is placed upon identifying names and values...

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