This activity requires students to select the melody they hear.  Each melody is 1 measure and there are 10 questions with audio.  This resource is a Google Form.  It is designed as a mini activity to be used within a larger lesson plan.  It can also be used in a virtual/distance learning situation.

Students will listen to and map the melodic contour of a familiar children's song by shaping yarn on the music classroom floor to represent the melody of the song. This lesson is designed to fulfill Standard #6 of the National Standards for Music: listening to, analyzing, and describing music.

This listening map is designed to support listening lessons/activities in the music classroom. This lesson resource is designed to fulfill Standard #6 of the National Standards for Music: listening to, analyzing, and describing music.

Students will gain an understanding of meter by learning about 3 common patterns of accented and unaccented beats. This lesson is designed to fulfill Standard #5 of the National Standards for Music: Reading and notating music.

Students will become more familiar with the syllables of the solfege scale. This lesson is designed to fulfill Standard #5 of the National Standards for Music: Reading and notating music.

Students will demonstrate call and response using a recording of "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" and a melody from Mozart's Symphony No. 40.

This lesson site give a brief introduction to combining chords from different minor scales for beginning composition. Charts and descriptions of different chord use are given.

Students will be introduced to solfege. Students will be able to sing from Do to Do backwards and forwards. They also will understand that each note of the scale has its own solfege syllable. This lesson is designed to fulfill Standard #5 of the National Standards for Music: Reading and notating music.

Students will understand that music can interpret movement as they focus on how the movement of animals may be best represented by music. Through their knowledge of tempo and dynamics, the instruments of the orchestra, and knowledge of the physical attributes of animals in the wild, students will create a short musical composition to interpret what they have learned about the movement of animals.

Your students will astound you as they create a class performance piece using their words, accompanied by Mr. Copland"™s composition. Learning about this nation"™s twelfth president is fun when we combine music, writing, and performing to your lessons. Mix together a little Aaron Copland"™s Lincoln Portrait, with historical facts and opinions, books, videos and even the Gettysburg Address.

Students will learn about the function of a music conductor, learn to conduct and conduct the ensemble.

This resource is a presentation of the time periods of music. There is an assignment for students to complete after going through the presentation.

This lesson utilizes Classical and Disco music to teach about Beethoven's life while integrating many language arts standards at the same time. Music, art, and math were also incorporated into the theme unit. The main objective of this unit was to teach fact and opinion. There is no right or wrong answer to what makes music, music. It's a matter of opinion.

The students will create with the teacher body percussion to Frederic Chopin - Mysterious Forest and Tchaikovsky - The Forest Of Fir Trees In Winter. They will chose their own piece of music and create own movements.

The students will create with the teacher body percussion to Frederic Chopin - Mysterious Forest and Tchaikovsky - The Forest Of Fir Trees In Winter. They will chose their own piece of music and create own movements.  

The students will create with the teacher body percussion to Frederic Chopin - Mysterious Forest and Tchaikovsky - The Forest Of Fir Trees In Winter. They will chose their own piece of music and create own movements.

Take the music a step beyond just notes and rhythms by having your high school choir keep a listening log. They will write informal responses and answer questions to different choral pieces that are listened to in class.

Music can help us learn about history! This lesson demonstrates to your students how music of the Baroque period reflects the importance of the institutions of State and Church, and the influence both had on the
work of each composer.

Students will gain an understanding of music symbols by playing a game. This lesson is designed to fulfill Standard #5 of the National Standards for Music: Reading and notating music.

In this lesson, created in partnership with the Association for Cultural Equity, students gain a deeper understanding of what life might have been like for a working class person during this period of American history by examining the songs and stories of Nimrod Workman. Born in 1895, Workman began working in the West Virginia coal mines at fourteen years old, and continued for 42 years. By analyzing Workman's songs and personal stories, which were recorded by Alan Lomax in 1983, students gain a first-hand account of one of the most dangerous, violent, and least regulated industries in American history, and discover the relationships between labor, industry, and the government from the 1890s to the end of World War II.