Students will sing echo songs and call and response songs. Students will take turns being the soloist or leader. Songs include "Che Che Kule" and "Follow the Drinking Gourd." There are videos to demonstrate the lesson.
Students will review expressive qualities, such as tempo, dynamics, and articulation. Students will create movements to demonstrate each quality while listening to a variety of musical selections. A worksheet is provided to identify expressive qualities in music. Video demonstrations are provided.
Students will compose rhythms using long and short sounds. Students will use iconic notation to notate their rhythm pattern. Students can read their pattern, play the pattern on an instrument, or use body percussion. A worksheet is provided for students to notate their composition. A video is provided to demonstrate how to teach the activity.
Students will identify phrases in poems, nursery rhymes, and songs. A worksheet is provided to identify phrases in a nursery rhyme and song. Video demonstrations are provided.
Students will perform steady beat using body percussion and percussion instruments. A video demonstration is provided.
Students will review the Tempo words Presto and Largo. Worksheets are provided to show the difference between Largo and Presto. Students will create different movements to express fast and slow. Then, they will move to different pieces of music. Finally, students will describe the difference between Largo and Presto. Demonstration videos are provided.
Students will read different rhythm patterns. They will create body percussion and improvise new rhythm patterns. Students will dictate rhythm patterns using iconic or standard notation. Finally, students will compose their own rhythm patterns. Demonstration videos are provided.
Students will echo clap rhythm patterns including quarter notes, quarter rests and paired eighth notes. Students will compose four-beat rhythm patterns and perform them for the class. Demonstration videos are provided.
Students will echo clap four-beat rhythm patterns including quarter notes, quarter rest, and paired eighth notes. Students will sit in four chairs to create four-beat patterns. Video demonstrations are provided.
Students will trace a melodic contour with their finger as they sing the high and low sounds. Students will create their own melodic shape using yarn and perform the composition for the class. A video demonstration is provided.
Students will improvise melodic patterns using scat, or nonsense, syllables. Video demonstrations are provided.
Students will discuss expressive qualities in music. Students will arrange a familiar song and use expressive qualities while performing.
Students will play three rhythms inspired by music from around the world. Students will compare and contrast the rhythms. Students will perform using different tempos, dynamics, and instruments. Finally, they will create an arrangement for a performance. A student worksheet is provided.
Students will create a theme and variations using a simple sentence. Students will compare and contrast themes and variations while listening to Mozart's variations on "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." Listening examples are provided.
Students will listen and evaluate blues music. The teacher will play C-major, C-minor, and Blues scale on C. Students will compare and contrast the scales. Students will use the Blues scale to compose a song.
Song Maker is a part of Google's Chrome Music Lab. Students can compose their own songs using electronic instruments. Compositions can be saved and shared.
Students will draw different shapes on the screen. The images will be transferred to sound by the website. This activity is inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, an artist who compared painting to making music.
In this resource, students will be introduced to the concept of call and response. Call and response is a form of communication that is used every day and can also be heard in music. It is a type of communication that uses rhythms and patterns. In this activity, students will create a new call and response.
Students will identify and complete patterns. They will create their own patterns and perform for the class. A student worksheet is provided.
Students will research instruments around the world. They will present their findings to the class. After all the presentations, students will compare and contrast the different instruments.
Students will brainstorm songs learned from a friend, family, or classmate. They will discuss how music can be used for celebrations. Students will research a traditional song from a different country.
Students will experiment to identify how vibrations cause sound. A student worksheet is provided.
This lesson unit explores Vivaldi's life and his composition, The Four Seasons. Lessons include activities for music, language arts, social studies, science, visual arts, drama, and First Nations storytelling. A student workbook is provided.
Students will explore the life and music of Canadian composer, Raymond Murray Shafer. Students learn about R. Murray Schafer's soundscapes. "A soundscape is any collection of sounds, almost like a painting is a collection of visual attractions," says composer R. Murray Schafer. "When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous." David New's portrait of the renowned composer becomes a lesson unto itself, gracing viewers (and listeners) with a singular moment of interactive subjectivity. In this activity, students will listen to his music and compose with found sounds.
In this activity from Scratch, students will use coding skills to create their own compositions.
Students will compose music grooves using math concepts such as shapes, angles, and patterns. Start working with one of the "specials" pizza presets and add/remove "toppings" to adjust the groove, or click on the "Shapes" tab and drag various shapes onto the big circle to play and explore math-inspired grooves. The shapes include triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, and octagon. They can download their compositions or share a link to the composition.
Students will create a game, compose music, and sing traditional music from Botswana. This unit includes three lessons.
Students will listen to improvised flute performances. They will identify musical elements, including steady beat, rhythm, melody, harmony, and expressive qualities. They will improvise using recorders. The unit includes three lessons based on music from Nigeria.
Students will identify Chinese instruments and perform a lullaby. They will learn about Chinese musical elements, such as programmatic music and pentatonic scale. The lesson includes four sections.
Students will listen to and identify the Oud. They will create movement and play instruments to the rhythms. The lesson includes three segments.
Students will explore Mongolian life and music. They will imitate environmental sounds through dance and instrumental improvisation. There are four sections in the lesson.
Students will use math manipulatives to create AB patterns. They will play rhythm instruments following the patterns.
Students will listen to and analyze spirituals. They will identify the secret language used in spirituals to share information. Students will compose an original spiritual.
Students will identify elements of music in orchestral program music. They will create a mural inspired by orchestral music.
In this 3-5 lesson, students will explore jazz music and dance, then write a jazz-inspired cinquain poem. They will build their background on the history of jazz and its use of improvisation to demonstrate jazz dance movements.
