Music Around the World Bundle - Activities | Drumming | Sub Plans

This World Music Bundle contains everything you need to engage your music students, even during distance learning! Give your students an appreciation for other cultures and their music with this inclusive bundle. All units are Common Core aligned. Bundle that could get you through the year!!

You’ll find activities for African, Jamaican, Maori, and German music, along with a Back to School World Music distance learning activity, and a multiple-week unit on International Song and Dance.

There are 7 fun and engaging products in this bundle at a huge saving! Check out the preview to see all that you get when you purchase.

This bundle includes the following products:

African Drumming
This unit includes popular rhythms from all over the sub-Saharan continent and is appropriate for grades 4-9. Easy-to-read rhythm charts are suitable for any beginner through intermediate skill level and use shapes in addition to counting.

Included:

- 37 rhythm charts & PROFESSIONAL AUDIO RECORDINGS

- editable blank chart is included for teachers wishing to have students create their own rhythms.

World Music Songs, Games, and Dance

This collection of songs, games, and dances from around the world:
Continents/Countries Covered:

Africa (Ghana - Akan)

Africa (Egypt - Egyptian)

Africa (Sudan - Sudanese)

Europe (England)

Europe (Spain)

Europe (Finland)

Europe (Sweden)

Europe (Ukraine)

Asia (Burma/Myanmar)

Asia (Malaysia)

South America (Ecuador

Australia (Torres Strait Islands)

- works well for including students from Muslim and Jewish faiths.

- includes rhythm and tonal patterns, games, songs, and sheet music

- 36 weeks of lesson plans

Music Around the World Presentation

This unit is an animated presentation (Keynote) and includes:
- 15 Animated transition slides

- 16 Culturally appropriate real-life photos for each regional song

- 15 slides with sheet music and lyrics to songs from Ghana, British Isles, Australia (Torres Islands), Myanmar, Ireland, Ecuador, Spain, Malaysia, Ukraine, Sweden, Sudan, Egypt

- 15 slides of historical/cultural context for each country listed above

German Folk Songs, Rhymes, and Games

This unit is great for including well-known songs from Germany and includes 38 songs, games, and folk dances. Each song has three components: lyric sheet, sheet music with piano accompaniment, lesson plan

New Zealand (Maori) Songs and Games

This unit is full of beautiful and fun songs and games for the elementary music classroom. Lesson plans, sheet music, and lyric sheets are included for each song. Every song contains words in the Maori language along with an English translation.

Things to do inside:

-Stretchy Band

-Dalcroze Eurhythmics

-Macro Beat/Micro Beat

-Performance worthy repertoire

-Unison and 2-part singing for the elementary music student voice

-Culturally relevant songs

-Comic Strip illustration sheet for creating a storyboard when composing own verses

Songs:

A Pukeko in a Ponga Tree (12 Days of Christmas)

Rahina, Rahina, One, Two, Three (jump rope game)

Bluebells, Taco Shells (jump rope game)

Ma is White (children's song about items of color)

Big Whale (Action song)

Toai Mai (Welcome chant)

Kapo, Kapo, Ringa, Ringa (Dance song)

Mahunga Pakihiwi (Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes - a different version)

Hine e Hine (Lullaby)

Jamaican Songs and Games

This Jamaican Folk Song booklet is full of beautiful and fun songs and games for the elementary music classroom! Lesson plans, sheet music, and lyric sheets are included for each song. All songs are traditional Jamaican folk tunes.

Things to do inside:

-Skip Jump Rope games for elementary music

-Elementary rhythm lessons

-Dalcroze Eurhythmics

-Macro Beat/Micro Beat

-Performance-worthy repertoire - perfect for spring concerts!

-Unison and 2-part singing for the elementary music student voice

-Culturally relevant songs

-Comic Strip illustration sheet for creating a storyboard when composing own verses

Elementary Music Songs:

Lost My Gold Ring

Bell A Ring A Yard

Day-O!

Sly Mongoose

Linstead Market

I Dropped A Letter (A Tisket A Tasket)

Brown Girl in the Ring

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