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8th grade critical thinking vocal music resources for SMART Notebook
Visual Word Puzzles -- 10 Fun verbal brainteasers for Smartboard
Are you m1llion (one in a million)? Do you have timing ti ming (split second timing)? Then you will love these puzzles. Try these ten verbal brain teasers with your class, and they will definitely ask for more!
The hidden answer is revealed by moving the blue circle around the page.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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The Cup Game (history and how to)
All About the Cup Game
Super popular with elementary - high school students, thanks to the movie "Pitch Perfect!"
* Learn the history of the song "When I'm Gone" and the game itself.
* Learn how to play the game (with notation)!
* Embedded audio and video samples
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Rhythm Football (4/4 Version)
Are you looking for a fun way to assess rhythm? Rhythm Football allows you to individually assess your students' ability to read and perform rhythmic patterns using an altered version of football!
This product includes 12 rounds of football with 20 flashcards each. Each round is increasingly difficult and includes rhythmic values from previous rounds.
*Round 1 - Ta, Ti-Ti, Rest (Quarter Note / Paired Eighth Notes / Quarter Rest)
*Round 2 - Adds Half Note / Half Rest
*Round 3 - Adds Whole Note
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Grades:
1st - 8th
Cowboy Tunes & Songs from the Westward Expansion - SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK ED.
It's finally here!! Mrs. Kuchta's Corner, An Elementary Music Wonderland presents to you this fantastic collection of famous historical American cowboy tunes and westward expansion songs that we all know and LOVE to sing. This collection is a GREAT addition to your elementary music classroom library and can also be a fantastic cross-curricular aide to add to any regular elementary classroom teacher's library as well to help supplement your American History units of study. Lyrics and melodic n
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Grades:
K - 8th
6 Word Life Memoir SMARTboard Lesson (Editable!)
This activity encourages critical thinking and higher order questioning by having students write their own 6-word memoir. The lesson is a SMARTboard file, so you can edit it to fit your needs!
Started by Ernest Hemingway and popularized in the book "Not Quite What I Was Planning," students will write a story about their lives. The only catch - they can only use 6 words!
In my classroom, I had my students draw an illustration to accompany their six word memoir. We bound the memoirs in a boo
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Internet Hoaxes, Viral Emails, Viral Videos
This notebook file contains examples of true and hoax viral emails and viral videos as well as resources and guidelines for evaluating them. It is designed to give students the tools to evaluate them.
Grades:
5th - 8th
Learn To Sing With Solfege
This is a basic step by step guide for teachers and students to learn how to read, and sing using solfege.
I created this smart board plan for teaching solfege because nothing else was jiving for my classes.
I teach 4th and 5th grade music classes using this and they catch on fast!
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2nd - 10th
Thumbs Up Thumbs Down Solfege Pattern Game: Level 3
In this SMART notebook file, the teacher will click on the link on each page, and a recorded solfege pattern played on the piano (in the key of D+) will sound. Students simply show you which pattern they hear by giving you a thumbs up or down! A nice, easy informal assessment to see quickly who "has it"!
This file contains level 3 which uses only la-so-mi-re-do.
I will be posting the last level (4=full scale) soon!
Having the sound files recorded like this also makes it an ideal activity to
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Sleigh Ride Hand Jive visual support
This is a visual to support the learning of the "Sleigh Ride Hand Jive" shown in You Tube clips. It was used to help students with autism to learn the routine, but will help anyone learning to do the jive with the song. The routine works with any recording of the famous holiday song "Sleigh Ride" and is an excellent piece to include in your winter concert. This is a notebook file and therefore requires the use of Notebook software to open.
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3rd - 11th
Christmas Song Title Unscramble
This Smart Notebook lesson requires elementary music students in grades 3 and older to unscramble/re-arrange letters in bubbles to form titles to popular Christmas songs and carols. Students are given a limited amount of time to complete this task. This would be a fun activity to turn into a game with your classes.
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3rd - 8th
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The Young Singer's Guide To Vocal Health & Proper Singing - SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK
This SMART NOTEBOOK lesson introduces elementary general music & young vocal music students to the key essential steps on how to care for their overall vocal health. This guide is set-up with interactive links to specific topics/chapters within the file so that one key topic (in any selected order) can be discussed at a time per teachers discretion. Points covered in this tutorial/guide include:
1. Keeping your vocal chords healthy (from the inside out)
2. Proper singing posture
3. Vo
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Grades:
K - 8th
INTERACTIVE Mind Map w/Doodle Notes Geometry Basics: Segment & Angle Bisection
INTERACTIVE Mind Map with Doodle Notes HS Geometry Foundations: Segment and Angle Bisection / Partition.
Use a visual that helps establish quality work-habits and consistency in mathematical communications.
Lay down the foundations for writing geometry proofs. Make your own instructional video. Show a clear picture of the basic relationships among segments and angles, to avoid frustration with sloppy justifications later in the year.
This lesson contains 11 SmartBoard pages with probing questio
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Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Riddles and Brainteasers
This is a collection of 54 riddles/brain-teasing exercises that are great for weekly warm-up activities or as a brain break activity when students are overwhelmed. Also great to use as sub plans for an unexpected absence. Each of the questions has an answer as well as an explanation of the answer when necessary.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Interactive Smart Notebook recorder fingering charts
This works with Smart Notebook and allows you to see each fingering for the notes on the recorder, color coordinated. You can click on each note on the staff. They are each animated, and plays the tone so students can match pitch.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Key Signatures - SMART board resource
This is a SMART board file that I use with my beginning and Middle School Band students to teach the concept of key signatures and the order of flats and sharps. There are several tabs extending off both sides of the page - sharps on one side and flats on the other. First there is the sequence of flats and sharps plus a short description of how to figure out what key it is, then there is a scale and key signature for each number of accidentals. These can be pulled out and placed on the staff
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Leveled Rhythm Reading/Performing Activity
This SMART Notebook file has rhythm patterns that are leveled for PreK - middle school. (SMART Notebook files work with SMART Board classroom technologies. You will need to have SMART Notebook installed in order to use this file as intended.) Each difficulty/grade level is notated with a different color highlight bar. This highlight bar can be moved over the pattern you want students to read/perform to make it easy for students to follow along. There is a page with suggested uses and tips.Th
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PreK - 8th
Compound (6/8) Time Signature
Use this interactive SMART Board lesson to help students explore, improvise, read, write, and synthesize rhythms in compound time signature. Students begin by exploring how to count 6/8. Then they get a chance to create their own rhythms in 6/8 meter. From there they read rhythms and compose as a group.
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Leveled Solfege Reading/Performing Activity
This SMART Notebook file has solfege patterns that are leveled for PreK - middle school. (SMART Notebook files work with SMART Board classroom technologies. You will need to have SMART Notebook installed in order to use this file as intended.)Kodaly hand signs, solfege syllables, and movable "do" are the foundations for this activity.In the second page of this activity there is a review of Kodaly hand signs and their solfege syllables.The third page in the activity has a "Click and Drag Patte
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PreK - 8th, Adult Education
Interactive Smart Board notation reading full year
This Notebook application features interactive pages in notation. Each features a different theme for the year. Counting beat value, listening to notes/pitches and deciphering length. You can print worksheets from this a distribute them to students while conducting the interactive lesson up on the board.It can be used for virtually any grade level. Cater the lessons to your classroom, and edit as you wish.Any questions, please feel free to message me. Please make sure you have Smart 11 or higher
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Clefs and Note Names
Teach your students why we use clefs, where they overlap, and how to easily identify letter names. This lesson also has links for students to practice note naming with a link to musictheory.net practice games.
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Thinking time (loads of cognitive reasoning slides)
I created 'Thinking Time' last year and now all the classes in my school are using it. There are over 100 slides. This is a brilliant tool to have in the class room. It can be used as an exciting early morning work, a time filler on any given day or as a way of really getting the kids into a thinking state of mind. There are slides appropriate to all ages and different cihldren will get different things from the activities. I use this every single day that I'm teaching and the children LOVE
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Multiple Intelligence (MI) SMARTboard (Secondary/Adult) by Jennifer A. Gates
Teaching gifted, talent development or preparing students for Common Core by teaching them to identify their strengths?
This is the perfect way to introduce Multiple Intelligence: 8 characteristics that students can use to best identify ways in which they can make positive growth. They are: nature smart, logic smart, self smart, people smart, word smart, picture smart, body smart, and music smart.
Introduce and explore Multiple Intelligence in depth with students the elementary or primary and
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Valentine's Day Rondo with Orff Arrangement
An orff arrangement of the poem, "Roses Are Red" for xylophones, conga drums, glockenspiels, soprano recorder, and voice. Lesson plan ideas for extending the song to create a rondo form using spoken limericks, both traditional and comical. A good way to reinforce or teach the lower register on the recorder: melody includes the pitch low C. Smart Board visual of the melody with attachments of the full instrument score and the limerick cards for printing. A fun Valentine's Day activity for your u
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Dotted Notes and Rhythms
Help your students understand dotted rhythms with this interactive lesson. Students get a chance to share prior knowledge, improvise, read, and evaluate dotted patterns.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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