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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Learning to Reading Musical Notes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will learn to recognize lines, spaces, and notes on the treble clef staff. It contains interactive pages, 2 hand-bell songs, and a hand-bell video clip.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Blowing Bottletops: Making Music With Glass Bottles

For Students 6th - 8th
This is a musical project about the resonance of closed-end air columns. Organ pipes, flutes, and brass instruments are examples of musical instruments of this type. In this project, you'll learn how the pitch of the note produced...
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Street Orchestra: Fractions and Percentages

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Adolfo loves Music and Math! Did you know musical notes can be expressed as fractions, decimals, and percents?
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Interactive
Other

Musicards.net: Online Music Theory Flash Cards

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flash cards are an excellent way to help you learn various topics. These online music theory flash cards can help you learn note names, intervals, notes on the piano and several other topics.
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Handout
Music Education

Learning to Read Music: Basic Counting

For Students 3rd - 8th
Apply basic knowledge of reading music by counting beats and reading notes. Here are some simple lines of music which incorporate different types of notes and patterns in common time.
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Handout
Music Education

Learning to Read Music: Basic Counting, Part 2

For Students 3rd - 8th
Beginning musicians can practice reading notes and counting beats using this resource that also provides several lines of music with different types of notes, rests, and time signatures.
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Website
Music Theory

Music theory.net

For Students 9th - 10th
An online beginning music theory and ear training site. This site is for students to use at home to reinforce what they learn in class.
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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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Website
Other

Piano Music Sight Reading Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
Actually this clever site drills pianists on note names and note placement on the keyboard. Kids can access this site at home for practice. Both treble and bass clef are used.
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Courses: Guitar Music Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of 16 video lessons that teach basic guitar theory. Lessons discuss intervals, perfect and diminished notes, and octaves. Videos vary in length.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Music for Kids: Listen, Play, Learn

For Students 1st - 9th
On this site, students learn about brass, string, and woodwind musical instruments. Listen to tunes, discover artists, and find out how music and notes work.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Music for Kids: How Brass Instruments Work

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about how brass instruments work. Musical notes made with slides, valves, and bells.
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Handout
Music Education

Learning to Read Music: Clefs

For Students 3rd - 8th
Younger musicians and music-appreciation students can learn the notes of the treble clef and bass clef.
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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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Handout
OpenStax

Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Pitch Sharp, Flat and Natural Notes

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the meanings and uses of pitch and accidentals. Including sharp, flat, natural and double sharps and flats, this lesson explains why they are necessary.
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Handout
Music Education

Learning to Read Music: Time Signatures

For Students 3rd - 8th
Beginning music students learn the definition of time signature and examples of time signatures in music.
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Unit Plan
Other

Tone Savvy: E Music Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides good online learning games and exercises for music theory. It also has a lot of options for teachers if they choose to subscribe.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Dancing to New Heights

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson plan for young students to move their bodies in specific ways. Warm-up exercises are done to culturally diverse music. (Note: Lesson references a book that is not included and contains a link to a song that does not work.)
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Unit Plan
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Pickup Notes and Measures

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To learn about pick notes and measures
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Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Dots, Ties, and Borrowed Divisions

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read and learn about how dotted notes and ties work. Included on this page is a self checking quiz.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Music for Kids: How String Instruments Work

For Students 3rd - 8th
Kids learn about how musical string instruments work. Understand what makes the music and notes on this website.
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Interactive
PBS

Classics for Kids: Games

For Students 9th - 10th
Compose your own music, match the rhythm, form words with notes, and learn more about music and history in these games to teach students about classical music.
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Graphic
Other

Whitney Museum of American Art: Georgia O'keefe: Abstraction

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a full-featured analysis of an abstract work by Georgia O'Keeffe that communicates many key elements of her art, such as her use of color, the inspiration she found in nature, and her approach to abstraction. Includes insightful...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What's a Wavelength?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students measure the wavelength of sounds and learn basic vocabulary associated with waves. As a class, they brainstorm the difference between two tuning forks and the sounds they produce. Then they come up with a way to measure that...