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PBS

Reading Adventure Pack: Music

For Parents K Standards
Music is the focus of the reading adventure pack. After reading, pupils complete hands-on activities. Scholars use household items to make shakers and cymbals. They listen to eclectic music by turning on the radio, borrowing music from...
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Lesson Plan
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Music Box Identification

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders draw and label music notes and rests. In this music box lesson students use staff paper to draw the notes required. The students give the value of each note or rest.
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Worksheet
Fun Music Company

Note Drawing

For Students 2nd - 8th
Name that note. Every good boy (and girl) will find it easy to draw notes on these worksheets. The packet includes templates for note drawing, naming, etc.
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Outline: Notes of the Treble Clef Staff

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Score one for test prep. Young musicians are encouraged to create their own mnemonic devices to prepare themselves for a test on the treble clef staff. Using the provided worksheet, individuals record, in order, the names of the lines...
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Handout
Music Fun

Time Signatures

For Students 2nd - 12th
You'll never miss a beat with a resource packet filled with puzzles, quizzes, and activity worksheets that focus on time signatures. Don't quaver or rest until you score this packet.
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Activity
Wordpress

Behind the Music Project

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Authors write about what they know, and that does not exclude songwriters. Invite partners to explore the story behind a song. They analyze and discuss the lyrics, conduct research online, create a poster, and put together a two-minute...
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Lesson Plan
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Jazz Music and the Crisis Over School Desegregation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers will learn to appreciate the civil rights movement with a focus on Little Rock, Arkansas. They will also acknowledge Louis Armstrong's unparalleled contributions to American music.
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Music Twister

For Teachers 3rd
Distinguish the sound of musical notes and correctly name them. In this music lesson plan, participate in a game of musical twister where the circles are renamed with musical note names. Additionally, display recognition of eighth,...
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My (musical) Valentine

For Teachers K
Get out those bells, sand blocks, and sticks! Your kindergarteners use their singing voices to ask and answer friendly questions while keeping rhythm. They take turns in a group and in pairs singing questions and answers while keeping...
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Organizer
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Music: The ABC's

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this music reading worksheet, learners study a diagram of the notes on a music staff and draw the 3 groups of notes on a blank staff included at the bottom of the worksheet.
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Lesson Plan
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Stop Signs, Musical Notes, Letters & Logos: Designing Symbols

For Teachers K - 1st
Students develop an awareness of environmental print, such as signs, logos, brand names, and other print and non-print items that the children see and read in their neighborhood each day. They then engage in active problem solving as...
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Organizer
Fun Music Company

Writing Major Scales

For Students 2nd - 12th
Designed as an assessment of understanding, this one-page worksheet asks musicians to demonstrate their understanding of scales by drawing C, G, and F Major scales on the provided staffs. 
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Boombox Classroom: Migration of Music

For Teachers K - 1st
In this music worksheet, students draw quarter notes and half notes. The lesson is dependent on classroom access to a musical lesson from Boombox classroom, found at the Sweet Bird Classics home page.
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Worksheet
Music Fun

Practice Boards

For Students K - 8th
FACE it. Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit! (And so do girls.) Provide young musicians with music worksheets that enable them to practice musical notation. The six boards included in the packet are templates that focus on notes, rests,...
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Worksheet
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Indian Music Test

For Students 6th - 7th
In this music worksheet, students answer 15 questions about Indian music. For example, "Which religion is important to Indian music?"
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Worksheet
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Indian Music

For Students 5th - 6th
In this music worksheet, students complete 10 sentences about Indian music. Students also research different Indian instruments and write an explanation for each.
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PPT
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Humor and Iconicity in Classical Music

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Scherzo, cappricio, divertimento, and rando are all addressed in this look into humor through this classical music presentation. The slide show is very basic, but has some good background on Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Bach. The...
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Outline: Notes of the Bass Clef Staff

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young musicians demonstrate their knowledge of the bass clef staff and prepare for an assessment  by completing a fill-in-the-blanks worksheet
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PPT
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Graphic Scores

For Teachers 4th - 6th
You can write some music scores using images rather than musical notation. Kids learn how they can become musical composers by using graphics or images in place of musical notation. An interesting slide-show, but a more interesting...
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Music Composition

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compose a simple melody using the notes of the D Major Scale. Criteria/Rubric for evaluation is provided with variations depending on skill level of students. A minimum of one forty-five minute class period is needed for this...
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Student Composers with Music Ace

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students compose short compositions using Doodle Pad.  For this Musical composition lesson, students a clef and note lines to prior knowledge of the treble clef and note lines to write short songs on the computer.  Students use Music Ace...
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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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Handout
Fun Music Company

Intervals

For Students 2nd - 12th
As part of their study of intervals, musicians are asked to draw the interval indicated above the notes provided on the instructional activity.
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The Affect of Music on Visual Images

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders consider cross-curricular connections between social studies, singing, and current events. They listen to the song, "I Can't Cry Hard Enough." view scenes from September 11, then create presentations using images, a...