Music of The Philippines Teaching Bundle - Complete Filipino World Music Unit

A FUN world music musical cultural package complete with Filipino songs, activities, games, videos and cultural facts about the beautiful country, The Philippines.

Teaching your kids about world music or South-East Asian music?

This Music of The Philippines Teaching Bundle is all you need!

In this fun lesson package, students will learn about the Filipino music and culture through the traditional folk songs, musical clapping games, ensemble activities and more!

Bring world music into your classroom!

This Musical Package Includes:

- Tons of musical activities and songs

- Ensemble activities with classroom instruments

- Folk Dances

- Composing activities

- Links to songs and videos

- Cultural information (each of the 3 Filipino units in this bundle contains different information)

- Scores and musical tracks

- Quizzes

- And more!

Contents of this Learning Package:

This package contains the following 3 units

1. Bahay Kubo Unit - A Clapping Game

- Information about the Philippines and the culture

- Score and music track for the song Bahay Kubo

- Lyrics and meaning of the song

- Learn to sing

- Activity: Performing the song as a 4-person clapping game

- Activity: Advanced version of the 4-person clapping game

- Creative Group Activity: Create your own clapping game with worksheet

- Bonus Mystery song: (learn the story behind this meaningful song that has been translated into many languages)

2. Tong Tong Tong Tong Unit - A Song about a Giant Crab

- Cultural Information about the Philippines

- Lyrics and meaning of the song

- Score and music track for the song Tong Tong Tong Tong Pakitong

- Play along video

- Activity: Performing a xylophone accompaniment

- Activity: Creating and performing ostinatos

- Activity: Adding everything together as a class ensemble

- Creative Activity: Compose your own version of the folk song

- Bonus Mystery song: (learn about a famous work song that has been translated into English)

3. Tinikling Unit - A Traditional Bamboo Dance

- Cultural Information about the Philippines

- History of the dance

- How it is performed

- Links to tutorial and performance videos (with additional QR codes for those who prefer to scan to watch on mobile devices)

- Activity: Performing the clapping of poles

- Activity: Performing the dance (6 different difficulty levels)

- Creative Activity Worksheet: Planning their own rendition of the dance and performing in groups

- Bonus Mystery song: (listen to a lullaby song performed by a surprisingly famous Filipino)

Why you should get this:

- Exposure to AUTHENTIC cultural world music

- Created and tested by a music teacher!

- Turns learning into a game

- Cool visuals and quizzes

- Engaging activities

- Encourages creativity with creative exercises

- Kids are guaranteed to have fun with it

If you like this, you may also enjoy my other world music packages:

• Complete Music of Japan Lesson Package

OR... Get my entire world music mega bundle for even bigger savings:

• Complete World Music Teaching Package Bundle

I have a HUGE passion for World music and it means a lot to me personally. Hence, I have worked hard to make this resource as engaging and culturally authentic as possible!

My goal is for the resource to really benefit teachers so I value any feedback or questions :)

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PLEASE READ - Technical details and other information

*Teaching slides are in PowerPoint format with music embedded in it. Text and photos have been locked so that they cannot be edited due to copyright issues.

Links to external YouTube videos have been included so internet is required to access those videos.

Terms of use:

This resource is licensed for you to use in your classroom / with your students as a single user.

It is not to be distributed or resold (in whole or in part).