Instrumental music resources for Easel on sale

With everything from ukulele chords to songs, music theory to performance rubrics, this UKULELE UNIT has everything you need for your students to be successful. It is aligned with the National Core Arts Standards (Music) and contains 92 pages of content to help provide students with the necessary structure to learn this Hawaiian instrument.Introduction: Sizes, History, PartsWays to Read Music: Notation, Tab, ChordsTuningTheory: ScalesTheory: Circle of FifthsTheory: Enharmonic NotesTheory: Crea

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Unit Plans, Assessment, Songs

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4th - 9th

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Also included in: Ukulele Songs, Assessments, Finger Charts, & Decor Bundle (20% off)

Prokofiev's "Peter & the Wolf" Storytelling & Listening Unit

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Prokofiev’s brilliant ballet "Peter & the Wolf" comes to life in these slides! Students will learn each character’s melodic motif in linked listening slides as well as the instrument responsible for the melodies. Instrument families are introduced and students can practice classifying common string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments.Worksheets are editable, can be completed online, and have answer keys! Usually I delete those slides before sharing with students, but they are skip

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Thematic Unit Plans, Songs, Lesson

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1st - 5th

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Also included in: Year Long Music Lessons & Curriculum for 2nd Grade | 30% off

Expressing the Blues: Integrating Music with Social Emotional Learning

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Six lessons for integrating the blues to social-emotional learning. Such content includes: Lesson 1: Am I Blue Today?; Lesson 2: Field Hollers or Cry; Lesson 3: Spirituals as Acapella; Lesson 4: The Beginning; Lesson 5: Accompanying Instruments; Lesson 6: My Blues Song Form; and Worksheets. Besides the worksheets, the lesson plans include each lesson component.

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Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

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3rd - 12th

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Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens Listening Unit (PDF)

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Holidays/Seasonal, Instrumental Music, Music

Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens makes for a great listening unit in October. This PDF version has also been updated for Distance Learning in Google Slides here.This unit contains:Introduction to Camille Saint-SaensDanse Macabre by Henri Cazalis Examples of Legato/Staccato & Melodic excerptsListening mapListening suggestions & extension activitiesClip It rhythm game (centers) & answer keysGame (Storytelling & movement)Color by rhythmStudy GuideAssessmentAnswer KeyMore Danse

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Not Grade Specific

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Thematic Unit Plans, Songs

Also included in: Year Long Music Lessons & Curriculum for 2nd Grade | 30% off

Composing the Blues - Worksheets, Activities and Rubrics

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Composing the Blues instructs how to write blues lyrics and use a blues chord progression under the words. This resource captures the essence of learning the blues. It includes worksheets, activities, and rubrics.

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Grades:

3rd - 12th

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Projects, Rubrics

Also included in: YOU'RE A SONGWRITER! Music Meets ELA too!

Carnival of the Animals Unit | Composer Bio, Worksheets, & Assessment

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"Carnival of the Animals" is a beautiful programmatic piece written by French composer Camille Saint-Saens who wrote each movement to depict an animal. As history tells it, this now-beloved piece was intended to be a joke when his students challenged him to compose a piece about animals! This document includes:Composer biography14 Movements - instruments & imagesColor by Note worksheetsColor by Rhythm worksheetsListening MapsAssessment & answer keyThank You & Terms of UseThese prin

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Worksheets, Songs, Lesson

Grades:

PreK - 6th, Staff

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Also included in: Year Long Music Lessons & Curriculum for 2nd Grade | 30% off

Music Bingo Games & Song Scavenger Hunts for Listening Practice

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From passive listening to active listening - help kids hunt for songs to fit specific criteria. This is great for centers, sub tubs, extended breaks, or days when you're on vocal rest!Included:4 Bingo Games4 Calling Cards3 Song Scavenger Hunts3 SamplesThank You & Terms of Use

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Grades:

PreK - 3rd

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Activities, Songs, Games

Ear Training: Strategies for Improving Aural Awareness - Worksheet included!

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Ear Training: Strategies for Improving Aural Awareness contains strategies to improve ear training for musical growth. This resource is aimed at the middle and high school instrumental player but can be implemented with the teacher's discretion to younger ages. The tools included in the resource helps students identify how to hear intervals and how to implement ear training to their instrument and listening to music.

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Not Grade Specific

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Worksheets, Outlines

Matrix for Melodic and Rhythmic Improvisational Idea Combinations

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The Matrix for Melodic and Rhythmic Improvisational Idea Combinations is a tool to help create melodies and rhythmic patterns by assigning numbers to rhythms, scale degrees that can be converted to notes, and chords. It is an improvisational/compositional tool to help a musician brainstorm ideas.

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Worksheets, Projects, Activities

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Not Grade Specific

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Rhythm Tree Activities and Worksheets

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Worksheets and activities are designed to teach students the difference between slower and faster rhythms. There are worksheets for practicing how to add and subtract beats, as well as using rhythms to engage in activities that lead to building drumming ensembles by working with low and high pitches that can be transferred to drumming.

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Grades:

2nd - 12th

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Worksheets, Activities

Treble Clef Note Practice & Assessment | PDF

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Learn, practice, & read notes in treble clef. With written supports, visual icon (animals) reminders, and ample practice, your students will ace their written assessment. You can even double check with the included answer key!

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