Ditch the stand and deliver staff meeting for a game-changing approach to faculty PD that helps model best practices with high impact teaching strategies! It's the first day of school, and all the coffee in the building has gone missing. But with hundreds of students scheduled to arrive in mere minutes, the faculty is facing a level five caffeine shortage. If you have any hope of surviving the first day of students, your teachers will need their java, STAT! Can you master growth mindset to pop o
Oral tradition is essential to all societies. This is particularly important in societies where a large number people were not literate. The culture and traditions of most African civilizations was not carried on through a written language. The history and traditions of Africa were continued over the centuries, orally through storytellers and through performance by the entire village or tribe. The class will be divided in to groups of five or six who will write, design, and perform an Afric
Looking for an opera music activity? Take your students on a virtual field trip to the opera, and learn about opera around the world! This activity is a great way to expose your students to famous operas, productions, and singers.This Google Slides based resource features two digital choice boards with links to amazing videos, virtual tours, and online student-friendly sites. You can assign all of the blocks or allow students to choose what interests them. After students are finished exploring t
Let your students experience 6 musical careers by holding a job fair and letting them complete a project based on the career they chose! Start with the 20-slide presentation about 6 careers: music teacher, music therapist, music producer, performer, composer, and DJ. Next, display the posters for each job around the room and let students walk around while reading each poster. Place applications for each job near the posters. They can decide which one they want to apply for and begin filling out
This is a game format that teaches students about the time period of 1959 - 1972. Included are entrepreneurial tasks, fun fate cards, a time line activity, and lots of good music.
Let your students explore 6 different musical careers by completing and presenting a project. Included careers are:DJComposerMusic TherapistMusic ProducerMusic TeacherPerformerDirections and templates are included to help students come up with a final product. Here is an idea of what each career will have to do:DJ: Create a playlist based on an event you are given (birthday party, Christmas party, graduation, school dance, sports store opening and wedding are included).**A "research packet" is i
Perfect for end of the year in music class! Introduce six musical careers to your students in 4th through 7th grade by holding a mock job fair. Included careers are:DJComposerMusic TherapistMusic ProducerMusic TeacherPerformerYou will receive a poster with description and salary info for each career, as well as a unique application. All applications include one side that asks for standard job information: name, education, awards and honors, and references. This has been a great opportunity to ta
Looking for a great way to incentivize your students in music class? Create a Rockstar Roll Call! This motivates students to reach for the goal of staying engaged and respectful in class. Everyone loves a positive email home and hearing their child made it on the Rockstar Roll Call list that week. Template has space for multiple grades over multiple weeks.
Create a timetable from scratch!Whole School Timetable makes use of Excel's in built features to help optimise and schedule blocks. Once the setup process is completed timetables can be viewed for an individual teacher, class or room.Instructions included and I am happy to assist users who have any questions. There is a free version of this resource, containing setup worksheets, which I recommend you try before you buy:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Whole-School-Timetable-Free-Versi
This is the SCRIPT ONLY that will allow you to create a Renaissance style FEASTE with your students. It is not only a great performance and cultural event for your students but we have done this annually with our students and regularly make $10,000.
Note: If you are interested in the planning packet as well, buy the FULL PACKET which includes a planning calendar and all the instructions for making your Feaste successful.
Having a hard time giving students pitch references with your piano through your video call platform? Try this out! Share your screen and sound.Hit present and click away for all the piano action!
Explore the excitement of designing your very own unique instrument virtually! Using Microsoft Power Point, students design and build their own virtual music instrument. This power point introduces concepts of frequency, found sounds, rate, sampling, and inserting and using animations within power point to create a virtual instrument. After instrument building is complete, students use team work to collaborate on a performance by plugging their lap tops into speakers and playing with back gro
Whatever the Weather! Twelve original songs piggyback onto traditional tunes and include such weather as wind, humidity, different clouds, different rain, thunder and lightning, tornado, snow, rainbow, and sunshine. The water cycle is also included. Simple staging and costumes are suggested. Check out other musicals at Sing Ollie Sing!
We all do fire drills? Safety drills? Why are we not taking 5 minutes a month to conduct digital safety drills?? With these simple to use drill cards the teacher in any classroom can use grade-level appropriate scenarios to discuss how best to handle digital dilemmas our students face each and every day. Each scenario comes with teacher talking points. One drill per grade band and teacher talking points. Grades K-12 represented. It's time we start doing digital drills as much as we do fire dril
I use this activity when I teach rhythm vs. beat. I teach the song/chant Engine, Engine Number 9 first. Then I print out these pages. The track page is one per student (or pair) and one train page each. I laminate all the pages and cut out the trains and paperclip them to the track page. Then I ask the students to go through and tell me if there are one or two sounds in a beat (one piece of track) and put the double or single train on that track.
Help prepare your test room supervisors for an exciting round of all school testing with this Virtual Testing Bin activity. Think of it as a sort of museum exhibit that is focused on All School Testing (so, possibly the worst museum exhibit ever).Share this activity with staff who are being trained, and they will go through the process of unpacking a testing bin. It will explain the importance of every object included in an all school testing kit.This is an activity to help staff "live through
Al Citron folk song rhythm follow-along can be played online or in-person to students learning tam-ti or low so,. Sing along in a comfortable key or clap along with the colored dot. Solfege: s,s, d r m r dd s,s, dd s,s, d r m r dd s,s, ds, dm d.
Chemistry and the state of matter! These eleven songs were too advanced for my transitional kindergarten class but I still had fun writing them! But you might have fun incorporating them with my chemistry musical: Chemistry in Song - Water Matters!
Sustainability in Schools Simulation/Card Game
for school administrators and teachers
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Are you looking for something interesting to do during staff meetings or in-service training?
Learn which sustainability-related projects have the best cost/benefit and
discover how to use these as teaching opportunities.
The Sustainability in Schools game is a powerful learning tool to help your school:
Understand what sustainability looks like in a school
Identify sustainabili
Whole School Timetable makes use of Excel's in built features to help optimise and schedule blocks.Instructions included.This is a free version of my premium resource which enables the user to create a timetable from scratch! The premium version of this resource can be unlocked to view timetables by teacher, class and room:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Whole-School-Timetable-Full-Version-2431485Files are updated on a regular basis and feedback is welcome.Follow me on Twitter and Pi
The Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ) is a shortened version of the Decision Sprint (from Google's Jake Knapp) with the purpose of moving leadership teams (or even individual teachers) from problem to testable solution in 90 minutes. The LDJ was developed by Berlin-based design firm AJ and Smart to help teams get unstuck and start to get things done. This version of LDJ has been tested with multiple leadership teams and includes examples of how school leaders can apply this approach. I rewrote the