Basketball Music Symbols Matching Games for Piano & Music Class - Slam Dunk!
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Description
Are your piano students struggling to remember music symbols and terms? If so, they'll love these basketball-themed music symbol matching games! Featuring 80 music symbols and terms, these games are perfect for your sports fans. Your students can play a variety of games with these cards, or use them as study cards. Instructions for 5 activities are included!
Treat your students to these fun basketball-themed music symbol games. Perfect for basketball tournament season in March, for piano lessons, and for music centers!
Download Includes:
- Instructions for use
- Slam Dunk! basketball search game instructions (sample instructions for this game are below ⬇︎)
- Memory Match game instructions
- Sorting game instructions
- Study cards & flash cards
- Choosing teams with the cards
- How to print smaller cards (8 per page instead of 4)
- A page to print onto the backs of the game cards
- A blank page you can use to create your own cards (personal use only)
- Colorful cards
- Black and white cards
Tips For Using The Basketball Cards:
- Print the colorful pages you need onto white card stock, or print the black and white pages onto colorful card stock
- Cut the cards on the dotted lines
- Choose the symbols and number of cards needed for the allotted time in your piano lesson or music class
- Your students will enjoy reviewing music symbols and terms in a fun, hands-on way
Sample Game Instructions: Slam Dunk!
- Choose the symbol and term cards you need for your specific group of students.
- Hide the basketball cards around your studio, but put the backboard cards in plain view.
- Have a”slam dunk! basketball search” with your students to collect all of the basketball cards.
- As each basketball card is collected, the student can match it to the correct term by saying “Slam dunk!” and “dunking” the ball into the hoop.
- Students could also collect all the basketballs, then play a quick group-wide matching game with the cards.
- To increase the competition, divide your students into two teams, then have two separate basketball searches and matching games.
- The group who finishes first wins!
These Music Symbols Are Included (US & UK Terms):
- Fortississimo
- Fortissimo
- Forte
- Mezzo forte
- Mezzo piano
- Piano
- Pianissimo
- Pianississimo
- Sforzando
- Crescendo
- Decrescendo
- Diminuendo
- Grand staff
- Treble clef
- Bass clef
- Alto clef
- Tenor clef
- Double barline
- Brace
- Repeat
- Barline
- Time signature 4/4
- Time signature 3/4
- Time signature 2/4
- Time signature 6/8
- Common time
- Cut time
- Key signature
- Metronome mark
- Tempo mark
- Andante
- Allegro
- Allegretto
- Presto
- Sharp
- Double sharp
- Flat
- Double flat
- Natural
- Coda
- Segno
- Breath mark
- Chord
- Ottava
- 1st and 2nd endings
- Accent
- Fermata
- Staccato
- Tie
- Slur
- Ritardando
- Glissando
- Tremolo
- Ascending notes (Notes going higher)
- Descending notes (Notes going lower)
- Repeating notes (Notes staying the same)
- CDE piano keys
- FGAB piano keys
- Piano keyboard
- Trill
- Arpeggio
- Turn
- Mordent
- Appoggiatura
- Four sixteenth notes
- Sixteenth note
- Triplet
- Two eighth notes
- Eighth note
- Quarter note
- Dotted quarter note
- Half note
- Dotted half note
- Whole note
- Sixteenth rest
- Eighth rest
- Quarter rest
- Half rest
- Whole rest
- Measures
- Semiquavers
- Triplet
- Semiquaver
- Quaver
- Quavers
- Crotchet
- Dotted crotchet
- Minim
- Dotted minim
- Semibreve
- Semiquaver rest
- Quaver rest
- Crotchet rest
- Minim rest
- Semibreve rest
- Bars
- Whole bar rest
Teachers like you said…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lisa J. says, "Yay! Just in time for March Madness! I've already used these with my piano lessons and the kids thought they were great! Thanks!"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jill C. says, "[...] Great way to engage my older boys especially who sometimes tune out toward the last half of the year. Great! Fun!"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Two Little Barkers Studio. says, "At the end of the year, some of my kids said their favorite memory of music was playing this game as a class!"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Carolyn B. says, "Possibly THE best hook for my upper elementary kids EVER!!!"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rebecca H. says, "My kids enjoyed this activity! I incorporated having them try to "land a shot" by tossing a ball into a basket for extra credit when the correctly named a symbol!"
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