Black History Month Music Activity Bundle

Looking for fun Black History Month Music Activities involving different pieces of literature, music field trips, and African folk songs?

This Black History Month Music Activity Bundle is perfect to use in your classroom amongst all elementary music grade levels to review different musical concepts such as jazz, scatting, barbershop quartets, instrument and rhythm playalongs, musician spotlights, and more!

What This Product Includes:
- 2 African Folk Song Music Lessons

- 6 Musical Virtual Field Trips
- 6 Children's Book Music Literacy Activities

The Two African Folk Songs Include:
Sorida
- Instructions/Concepts To Teach

- A song & partner hand clapping game for Sorida (video tutorial included)

- Slides teaching about Zimbabwe & its culture

- Slides to review sol-mi-do rhythm patterns
- Slides to teach the melody of the song using barred instruments
- Come as a Google Slides activity
Obwisana

- Instructions/Concepts To Teach

- A song & stick passing game for your students (video tutorial included)

- Slides teaching about Ghana & its culture

- Slides to review quarter rest rhythm patterns (stick & traditional notation included, as well as ti-ti and ta-di)
- An Orff instrument arrangement to accompany the song

- A quarter rest review worksheet
- Comes as a Google Slides activity

The Children's Book Music Literacy Resources Include:
Max Found Two Sticks:
- Google Slides Presentation (Musical Concepts List, Teaching Process, Activities)
- A Body Percussion Rhythm Activity to accompany the book (Can use drum sticks the second time around)
- Slides to practice quarter and eighth notes, and quarter rest
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop:
- Google Slides Presentation (Musical Concepts List, Teaching Process, Activities)
- Videos to introduce the Jazz Genre & Charlie Parker
- A fun scatting activity for your students
- A listening glyph for Charlie Parker
Crown: An Ode To The Fresh Cut:
- Google Slides Presentation (Musical Concepts List, Teaching Process, Activities)
- Videos to introduce Barbershop Quartets
- A fun locomotor movement game with slides
Ella: Queen Of Jazz:
- Google Slides Presentation (Musical Concepts List, Teaching Process, Activities, Slides for teaching/practicing Ti-Tika to the song Kitty-Kitty Casket)
- Ella Fitzgerald Virtual Music Field Trip/Instrument Playalong to A Tisket A Tasket Little Melba & Her Big Trombone:
- Google Slides Presentation (Musical Concepts List, Teaching Process,)
- Brass Family slides and video clips
Harlem's Little Blackbird- The Story of Florence Mills
- Google Slides Presentation (Musical Concepts List, Teaching Process
- Folk Dance Activity
- Cup Game Activity
- Socially Distanced Activity
- Slides for introducing Low Sol

The Virtual Music Field Trip resources comes in PowerPoint form & Google Slides In these virtual music field trips, students will go through Ella, Louis, Martin Luther King, and Duke's lives, watching clips from the different stages of their lives, etc., and at the end will have a chance to show what they learned by answering the questions

These Virtual Music Field Trips Include:

• Ella Fitzgerald Virtual Music Field Trip
  - An instrument play-along and classroom game to A Tisket A Tasket
• Louis Armstrong Virtual Music Field Trip
  - A scarf routine and listening glyph to What A Wonderful World
• Martin Luther King Virtual Field Trip
  - A rhythm playlong to "Free At Last" spiritual
• Duke Ellington Virtual Music Field Trip
  - An instrument playalong to Duke's It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
• Diana Ross Virtual Music Field Trip
  - An instrument play along to "You Can't Hurry Love"
• Aretha Franklin Virtual Music Field Trip
  - A body percussion arrangement to "Respect"

Want to see a sneak peek of what's included in this bundle?
Check out this FREE Duke Ellington Virtual Music Field Trip!

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