3rd grade music lessons for SMART Notebook

Music, Thanksgiving, Vocal Music

Aaron Copland & "Simple Gifts": Upper Elementary Music Lessons for Smart Board

Created by

Music with Mrs Morgan

*This is a SMART NOTEBOOK file, please make sure you have a version of smart notebook in order to use this product*This is a musical mini unit on Aaron Copland, “Appalachian Springs,” and the song “Simple Gifts.” I love doing this lesson with my upper elementary students around Thanksgiving, but it’s such an important message for any time of the year! This year, my 4th graders performed “Simple Gifts” with the folk dance for our Thanksgiving sing-along. National Standards:*Singing in unison and

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3rd - 5th

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Songs, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Introduction to beginning recorder

Created by

Samantha Speakmon

This is a SmartNotebook file to help introduce the basics and beginnings of playing the recorder. File includes: Fingering charts, parts of the recorder, how to hold, blow, and play the recorder, tonguing, and some rhythm excerpts to practice clapping, on "doo," and playing.

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Music

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Instrumental Music, Music, Music Composition

Rhythm Builder (SMART) - Crotchets, quavers, rests, quarter notes, eighth notes

Created by

Musson Music

Use this wonderful rhythm builder to create rhythms with pupils in 3/4 or 4/4 time. Drag and drop the note or rest into the grid to create a rhythm pattern. Use alongside music that you are studying to help pupils follow the beat and read a rhythm. Please note, this resource uses SMART Notebook software. This allows easy movement of notes and rests. This works best when presented in full screen mode.

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Grades:

PreK - 8th

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Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson, Centers

The Orchestra: String, Woodwind, Brass, Percussion Families SMARTSoftwareEdition

Created by

Music is Elementary

The Orchestra: String, Woodwind, Brass, Percussion Families Help your students learn about and visualize instruments of the Orchestra. Each group of slides includes real life picture, basic facts, and link to YouTube video in Safeshare.tv format. Videos vary with orchestral concertos, demonstration, music videos, news stories and more. Link to Symbaloo page with additional videos as well! Instruments included: Violin Viola Cello Double Bass Flute Oboe Clarinet Bassoon Trumpet French Horn Tr

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Instrumental Music, Music

Grades:

1st - 6th

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Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

The Nutcracker Suite-Dance Of Sugar Plum Fairy-(Listening Map) SMBD/NTBK ED.

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This SMART NOTEBOOK Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students of all ages and is part 4 of a 9 part unit. In this lesson, students will follow a listening map as they hear the sugar plum fairy dance her way from one section to the next. Students will be expected to read simple rhythmic notation including quarter notes, quarter rests, and paired eighth notes, repeat signs, as well as visual icons to help navigate their way through the map. Included in this lesson is a YouTube link to

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Grades:

K - 8th

Types:

Instrumental Music, Music

The 4 Instrument Families of the Orchestra

Created by

Mrs Friedman Music

A comprehensive SMARTBoard lesson about the 4 families of the orchestra: Woodwind, Brass, String, and Percussion. Each instrument has it's own page that includes a picture, sound sample, and important facts. Click on the image to hear a sound sample.

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PreK - 9th

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The Nutcracker Suite-Waltz Of The Flowers (A Listening Map)SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK

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This Smart Notebook Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students in grades 3 and up and is part 9 of a 9 part unit. In this lesson, students will be expected to identify the 4 musical themes heard in this dance tune as well as the instruments that play each of those themes. Students will also be able to identify the main form of the piece as ABA form. Activities included in this file are a very colorful vibrant listening map, a theme identification activity, a form labeling activity, a

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Grades:

K - 8th

Types:

Instrumental Music, Music, Music Composition

Discovering BAG - Elementary Music Recorder Game - Treble Clef - Smart Notebook

Created by

Meg's Music Room

“Discovering BAG” is my new detective-themed BAG Recorder game, an interactive game that assesses student learning about recorder basics while keeping them engaged in learning! This is my Smart Notebook Version. To find my PowerPoint Version, click here: Discovering BAG - Recorder Game - PowerPoint Version This game assesses all students’ understanding of reading BAG pitches on the music staff, deciphering the fingerings for BAG, and testing their listening skills on 3-note melody patterns whil

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Grades:

K - 6th

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Back to School, Instructional Technology, Music

Also included in: ULTIMATE MUSIC BUNDLE #1 - 20 SMART NOTEBOOK Resources for Elementary Music

Star Spangled Banner STAR Quest for SMARTNotebook and iPads

Created by

Cherie Herring

Star Spangled Banner STAR QUEST: Infusing technology with a purpose! What could be more exciting than using technology to go on a Quest to learn about our National Anthem and the American Flag? If you have access to an IWB and/or iPads, the Star Spangled Banner STAR QUEST will be the perfect addition to your teaching resources. Using the latest SMARTNotebook Lab games and QR codes, your students will be totally engaged as they complete their QUEST for knowledge and understanding. The Star Spang

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Grades:

1st - 5th

Types:

Music, Other (Music), Vocal Music

Learn To Sing With Solfege

Created by

Alex Taylor

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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Grades:

2nd - 10th

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Tchaikovsky & The Nutcracker Suite: Intro. To Composer/Ballet-SMARTBOARD/NOTEBK

Created by

This SMART NOTEBOOK Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students of all ages. This is the 1st lesson of a 9 part unit and is also sold as an entire BUNDLE in both PPT or Smart Notebook formats in my TpT store. This particular lesson is just the introduction part of the unit. In this lesson, the students will be introduced to Tchaikovsky, the history of ballet, and the story of the Nutcracker. There are also extension activities and suggested apps and websites that are listed for the teach

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K - 8th

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The Nutcracker Suite - Russian Dance (A Listening Map) SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK ED.

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This Smart Notebook Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students of all ages and is part 5 of a 9 part unit. In this lesson, students will follow a listening map as they hear the Russian dancers prance around as if they are flying through the air. Students will be expected to read simple rhythmic notation including quarter notes and quarter rests as well as repeat signs. Included in this lesson is a YouTube link to a short video clip of the Russian Mariinsky Ballet Company performing th

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Grades:

K - 8th

Types:

Instrumental Music, Music, Vocal Music

Note Values and Counting Rhythms- Interactive Lesson Plans

Created by

Mrs B's Music Room

This interactive lesson plan for Smart Notebook has several ways for students to practice counting rhythms and identifying types of notes. Notes in this lesson include: Quarter Notes/Rests, Half Notes/Rests, Whole Notes/Rests. There are several ways this lesson can be taught. Students can use white boards to practice drawing the notes and writing the counting underneath the notes (great way to assess students understanding as well), counting and clapping the rhythms out loud, coming to the smart

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Activboard Activities, Interactive Notebooks, Lesson

The Nutcracker Suite - The Overture (A Listening Map) SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK ED.

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This Smart Notebook Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students of all ages and is part 2 of a 9 part unit. In this lesson, students will identify 4 musical themes represented by 4 different fictional characters in the famous tale of the Nutcracker. Students will be expected to identify these musical themes by their specific designated assigned instrument(s). Students will also be able to identify the form that these musical themes create. A reinforcement character to instrument match

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K - 8th

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The Nutcracker Suite - Arabian Dance (A Listening Map) SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK ED.

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This Smart Notebook Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students of all ages and is part 6 of a 9 part unit. In this lesson, students will follow a listening map as they hear the Arabian dancers gracefully and mystically glide throughout the piece. Students will listen for entrances of instruments and groups of instruments and observe the order that this occurs in. Students will be expected to recall this order as well as the mood this piece creates. Included in this lesson is a YouTu

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Grades:

K - 8th

Types:

Instrumental Music, Music

Russian Dance from The Nutcracker

Created by

Claire Daubney

This is a smart board file with two different listening maps to accompany the Russian Dance from The Nutcracker. These maps and activities are geared towards younger students, typically Kindergarten through grade 3. These maps use fun body percussion movement as well as non-pitched percussion accompaniment depending on age level. My students love these activities!

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Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Music, Other (Music), Vocal Music

Also included in: Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker: Bundle Set

Leveled Solfege Reading/Performing Activity

Created by

Mary Vincent

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

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The Nutcracker Suite - Dance Of The Reed Pipes (A Listening Map)SMARTBRD/NOTEBK

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This Smart Notebook Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students of all ages and is part 8 of a 9 part unit. In this listening lesson, students will be able to identify the difference between moods in music, specifically using musical terms "major" and "minor." Students will also be able to identify when one mood/section ends and another begins by hearing the changes in the music. At the end of the lesson, students will check their understanding of the activity by answering some simple

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Grades:

K - 8th

Types:

Instrumental Music, Music, Vocal Music

Orff Schulwerk SMART Board lesson - The Months (Orff)

Created by

Tim McFarland

This is a song I wrote and a SMART board file I put together to teach the days of each month, but I later expanded it for use in an Orff Schulwerk classroom. The song itself is nice alone, kind of bluesey, and the instrumentation is fun. The body percussion is similar to the kind of thing you would find in “Music For Children” level I. If you click on the “Attachments” tab (it looks like a paper clip) you can find a pdf of the arrangement. The colored note heads correspond to boomwhacker c

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Songs, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

The Nutcracker Suite - Chinese Dance (A Listening Map)-SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK ED.

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This Smart Notebook Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students of all ages and is part 7 of a 9 part unit. In this lesson, students will follow a listening map as they hear the Chinese dancers spring about, dancing joyfully to their bouncy happy tune. Students will recognize the variations of high and low sounds and what instruments represent those sounds in the piece. Included in this lesson is a YouTube link to a short video clip of the Russian Mariinsky Ballet Company performing thi

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Grades:

K - 8th

Types:

Instrumental Music, Music, Vocal Music

Clefs and Note Names

Created by

Nathaniel Strick

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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3rd - 12th

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