Students will discover how to read music notes in the treble clef and then will learn to perform simple songs on
xylophones, through reading the story Freddy the Frog and the Thump in the Night by Sharon Burch.

This unit affords teachers with opportunities to lead children in active singing games and
dances from Quebec, Canada. These lessons will offer young singers and players an
opportunity to listen to, discuss, sing, play games, and create.

Students are led in active singing games and dances from Quebec, Canada. These lessons will offer young singers and players an
opportunity to listen to, discuss, sing, play games, and create.

This lesson is designed to teach positional, directional and spatial skills, social skills, large motor skills, creative skills, and oral vocabulary using the "Aquarium" movement from Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint- Saëns. The lesson is designed specifically to teach early childhood developmentally delayed students but can the challenge can easily be increased to make it appropriate for older grades or ELL classes.

Copland, an American maverick, becomes a storyteller as he writes about life in the early years of America. His Appalachian Spring helps students understand how people, places and things change over time, while his musical sketch reinforces the six traits of writing.

Featured here are three traditional songs from England that call for opportunities to sing,
move, and listen attentively. Each song offers young children the opportunity to be
creative in their physical expressions while also following direction in a sequential order.
These experiences allow the teacher a straightforward means for taking folk and
traditional songs of England into classrooms of young children.

Students will learn to play a quarter/eighth note rhythm pattern on percussion instruments. This lesson is designed to fulfill Standard #2 of the National Standards for Music: Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

In this three lesson unit, the concept areas of rhythm, melody, harmony, form and tone color are used. Skills will be developed in singing, moving, listening, playing instruments, creating, analyzing, and relating music to other areas such as history and literature.

Students are provided daily opportunities to hear, dance and move to the three separate movements of Vivaldi's Spring from The Four Seasons. Different dance and rhythm activities are used to acquaint students with the movements. The changes in tempo are discussed, as well as, musical vocabulary for fast (allegro) and slow or large (largo).

Students will demonstrate an understanding of steady beat as they participate in this team-based movement activity. This lesson is designed to fulfill Standard #6 of the National Standards for Music: Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.

Students listen to Vivaldi's The Four Season, Autumn, and describe emotion, tempo, and dynamics. Students engage kinesthetically as they move to the music and learn about the composer. Students learn the scientific reasons for fall leaves changing color. Students sing the poem "Little Leaves" to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle and the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat. Students do a choral reading of "Colors of Fall." Students will collect real autumn leaves, then draw and paint them as their interpretation of Vivaldi's Autumn.

Students show ternary (ABA) form in movement, sing a Russian folk song in English,
practice showing phrase structure and finding and showing beat, and discriminate a
rhythmic pattern at various tempi. This lesson uses music from Romani performers to explore basic musical concepts.

Using Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, students will discover how difficult it is to compose music with a hearing loss. Children will develop an understanding of overcoming disabilities and preserving through life's struggles.

Students will understand and demonstrate four dynamic levels (p-f) with this "Easter Egg Hunt" themed lesson plan. This lesson is designed to fulfill Standard #7 of the National Standards for Music: Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.

This lesson introduces students to Babar, an elephant portrayed in the children's books by Jean de Brunhof. Students will listen to Francis Poulenc's musical composition of the same name, written to reflect the scenes in Jean de Brunhof's book. Students will gain an understanding of how powerful the use of simple rhythm instruments is in retelling the story. Students will also create visual works of art based on the sounds they hear in the audio performance.

Through this multi-sensory lesson, students are introduced to the four oceans of the world. The use of music, art and creative movement increase the experiential learning of all students.

Students will be taught the correlation of Native American music and rhythm. They will also create their own Native American musical instrument and develop a rhythm of their own. Students will understand the basics of rhythm and develop their own rhythms.

Students will learn to appreciate the process of telling a story through song, while learning basic musical skills like rhythm, singing on pitch, and call-and-response format.

Students will understand the basic elements of a fanfare, and the significant role fanfares have played in history as a means of communicating information and emotions.

Students will learn about tempo (Adagio, Andante, Allegro) through movement. This music lesson plan is designed to fulfill Standard #5 of the National Standards for Music: Reading and notating music.