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Instrumental music thematic unit plans $5-10
UKULELE UNIT for Music Class! Google Slides & Canva Slideshows
This 44 page slideshow is ready-to-present meaning you can start this Ukulele Unit TODAY! This unit is meant to be taught over the course of a few weeks, depending on how often you see your students and how quickly they master each chord. The slideshow is available on both Google Slides & Canva (best with Canva Pro or Canva Education). Included:Ukulele BasicsUkulele HistoryUkulele AnatomyHow to Hold, Tune, & Play UkuleleChords BasicsChords included: C, Am, F, G, G7, D, C7, A7Videos, Imag
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: GROWING MUSIC CLASSROOM BUNDLE! 38 resources and counting!
Lin-Manuel Miranda | Digital & Printable Music Composer Listening Unit
If you loved Hamilton, Encanto, Moana, Mary Poppins, or In the Heights, you're going to love this Lin-Manuel Miranda Listening Unit! Since LMM is responsible for composing music for both film scores & the Broadway stage, his music will be familiar and engaging to a wide variety of students. This composer unit makes is great for in person learning as well as during Distance Learning! Also, please note that these diverse stories are key for students being able to feel included in your class
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2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Hispanic Heritage Month | Songs, Composers & Bulletin Boards (20% off)
Bucket Drumming Classic Rock
It's time to take it to the next level! This set of rhythms works great for bucket drumming but also for various percussion ensembles. It combines multiple rhythms and beats to give kids a chance to experience old and new (to them!) songs while keeping a steady beat, learning how to play effectively in an ensemble and having a great time making music together!
Each song includes instructions as well as lyrics, rhythms, web links and even gives you the chance to rick-roll your students! All o
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3rd - 12th
Bucket Drumming with Disney Inspired Beats
This is a fun way to establish rhythms with bucket drumming, using tunes that most students already know! The rhythms are interesting but not hard, and are designed for students to work on syncopation, rhythmic literacy through repetition and visuals. The beats are inspired by Disney music from Zootopia, Tarzan, The Lion King, Lilo and Stitch, Moana, Princess and the Frog and The Little Mermaid.The songs include:Try EverythingTrashin' the CampI Just Can't Wait to be KingHawaiian Roller Coaster
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1st - 8th
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The Nutcracker Music Activities for The Elementary Classroom
Use these comprehensive slides to guide your students through a lesson of The Nutcracker with Musician of The Month: Tchaikovsky! All of the text is editable and the necessary audio and links are already embedded.What's included...23 slide presentation on Tchaikovsky and music from The Nutcracker2 biography slides with an interactive videoDirections for the "statue game" with winter poses and Dance of The Sugar Plum Fairy audioMarch of The Nutcracker Cup Game slides with rhythms, instructions, a
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PreK - 6th
More BANG for your Book: A Bundle of Drum Lessons using Children's Literature
A bundle of great activities to incorporate more literature in your music classroom! Use these five lessons together as a drum unit or space them individually throughout the year. Students will love reading the simple rhymes in these stories and then playing them on the drums. In the process they will learn about reading rhythmic notation, dynamics, form, improvisation, drum technique, and different types of drums. This bundle of drumming lessons uses the following books:• Thump, Thump, Rat-
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K - 2nd
Rhythm Basics - A Workbook and Teaching Tool for Beginning Orchestra
This is a 12 page workbook that teaches music students the basics of beat and rhythm. Group class activities and worksheets are included. Students learn eighth notes, quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, corresponding rests (except eighth rests) and time signatures. This workbook helps students develop a great start to counting and rhythm reading.
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4th - 7th
Interactive Virtual Musical Fieldtrip for John Williams' Film Score
Welcome, wizards & muggles! These slides take students through John Williams’ film score “The Sorcerer’s Stone” (all rights belong to original artists and to be used solely for educational purposes!) and the melodic motif for various characters as well as thematic music. Included: 1. Infor on John Williams 2. Themed bitmoji classroom (Editable to add your own Bitmoji)3. 7 Melodic motifs with embedded listening tracks & music notation examples.4. Review with listening tracks5. Optional a
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5th - 12th
Planets Suite by Gustav Holst | Digital & Printable Listening Unit
Oh how I love Gustav Holst's Planet Suite! It's programmatic, beautiful, and engaging. Want a tie into Social Studies / History? Study these Roman gods. Want to connect to Science and the planets? Here ya go! Connection to art? There are coloring Listening glyphs included. How about connecting to math? Identify these time signatures or the rhythmic chant in Jupiter's 5/4 ostinato. Relating each movement on the exit slip to an emoji is a nice Social-Emotional Learning component!This is
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PreK - 9th
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Also included in: Year Long Music Lessons & Curriculum for 4th Grade Bundle 30% off
Elementary Jazz Unit Choice Board | Info, Listening, Projects, Assessment
Celebrating National Jazz Month in April? Honoring African American musicians during Black History Month in February? This inclusive unit is laid out as a choice board and works beautiful as a navigation tool when learning as a full class. This unit contains:Choice board with linked slidesJazz Sounds (syncopation, listening samples)Jazz Musicians (bios & a long list)Jazz History/TimelineJazz Instruments24 listening linksPre-test2 assessmentsAnswer keys4 Project options & rubricsJazz
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K - 6th
Also included in: Year Long Music Lessons & Curriculum for 1st Grade | 30% off
Instrument Families - Write the Room- Instruments of the Orchestra Activity
Help your students learn the instrument families and instruments of the orchestra with this fun and engaging elementary music activity! This Instrument Family Write the Room Activity is the perfect resource for students to identify all the instruments in the orchestra! ✅ Need more Instrument Family Resources? Check out the BUNDLE here! ✅This Instrument Family Write the Room Activity is a great way for students to review at the end of your instruments of the orchestra unit.✅ Music Write the Room
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Instruments of the Orchestra Activities BUNDLE
Musically Montessori: Solar System, Europe, Gustav Holst and "The Planets" Music
Montessori-style Activities featuring the continent of Europe, the composer Gustav Holst, and his music, "The Planets" for exploring the Solar SystemIncludes 5 Activity Areas:1. Introducing the children to Gustav Holst, the continent of Europe (and country of Great Britain) and his classical music, "The Planets"2. "The Planets Musical Scale" song and activity3. "The Planets Musical Scale" Movement activities4. "The Planets DramaPlay Rhythm Instruments" Activities5. Focused Listening Activities b
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PreK - 1st
Distance Learning | Virtual Field Trip to Space with Holst's Planet Suite
Oh how I love Gustav Holst's Planet Suite! It's programmatic, beautiful, and engaging. Want a tie into Social Studies / History? Study these Roman gods. Want to connect to Science and the planets? Here ya go! Connection to art? There are coloring Listening glyphs included. How about connecting to math? Identify these time signatures or the rhythmic chant in Jupiter's 5/4 ostinato. Relating each movement on the exit slip to an emoji is a nice Social-Emotional Learning component!This Virtual Field
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1st - 9th
Learn to Read Music with the Ukulele - Unit 1: Whole Notes & Whole Rests
Want to see this resource in action? Click on this YouTube link to see kids playing!
Video: Learning How to Read Music with Ukulele
National Core Arts Standards Used
Music Creating Anchor Standard 3 (MU:Cr3.1) Evaluate and Refine
Music Performing Anchor Standard 5 (MU:Pr5.1) Rehearse, Evaluate, and Refine
Music Performing Anchor Standard 6 (MU:Pr6.1) Present
Learn to Read Music with the Ukulele! – Unit 1
What you get:
Page 1 Title Page
Page 2 Outline
Page 3 Standards Used and Rationales
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patriotic handbell songs and American folk songs for 20 handbells
This is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD!
Patriotic and American songs for the 20 note handbells. This book has the melody line for 16 well-known patriotic/folk songs of the United States of America. Great resource for end of the year production, President's Day, Independence Day, or Veterans Day. There are 3 military songs included as well. This would be a good unit to teach some history as well. Students could look up or learn about the history of the songs. For instance, it would be beneficial to teach t
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PreK - 2nd
RAP Project for Garageband
This is a 3 part assignment for music studentsBy the end of this lesson they will be able to 1. Create a rap2. Perform their rap3. Record their rap on GaragebandStep by step instructions, lesson plan, rubrics, and example are included. See below for examplehttps://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_i7UwAAwTNoVmxydXVKMWVyMDAThis unit will bring together rap music, with recording in Garageband and performance to make a comprehensive unit that makes students engaged. Whats included?Lesson planRubricsStud
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4th - 12th
Careers in Music Project Based Learning Bundle
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
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5th - 7th
Hand Bell Music - Patriotic bundle
This is a collection of 4 great Patriotic songs arranged for 2-octave (G4-G6) handbells (aka hand chimes or tone chimes). They can all be used for concerts or just for learning in the classroom.I love handbells! I have used hand bells (tone chimes and/or bell plates) with 5th-12th grades for 20+ years of teaching. This is a collection of some of the arrangements I created for my students. My 5th graders LOVE playing the hand bells and I have ALL of them participate--not just a select few. All o
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5th - 12th
Music from Around the World Part 2!
This unit is a great way to expose your students to the wonders of music from all around the world. This is the second week-long unit I have on music from around the world! In this unit, students will study traditional music from Germany, Egypt, Japan, Greece, Italy, France, Mongolia and Finland. Students will listen to audio excerpts, explore unique instruments and learn all about the different ways that music is made all around the world! This unit includes 5, 50 minute lessons, a companion wo
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3rd - 12th
Also included in: Music From Around the World 2 Week Bundle!
Carnival of the Animals: An Interactive Listening Adventure - GOOGLE SLIDES ED.
THIS IS A NEWLY UPGRADED/UPDATED GOOGLE SLIDE EDITION OF A BEST SELLING CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS LISTENING UNIT RESOURCE!! Are you looking for a new, colorful, interactive, adventure filled way to present the classic musical tale of Carnival of the Animals to your elementary music students? Look no further! This NEWLY UPDATED resource is just what you need. This fabulous resource contains beautiful eye popping clip art which will immediately captivate your students' attention, a composer biograp
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PreK - 6th
Black History Month Unit Plan for Elementary Music (First Steps Inspired)
A 12 lesson unit plan celebrating African American Folksongs and Musicians for Black History Month (or anytime of year!). This unit plan is designed with the First Steps in Music structure but can be taught by anyone! Recommended for Preschool through 2nd grade but can be altered for any elementary class!Included:Lesson Plan - 10 pages of detailed instructions, links, and suggestions12 Days of Lesson PlansGoogle Slides DownloadPowerpoint PresentationGoogle Sheets Unit PlanExcel Download of Unit
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PreK - 4th
Choir Chimes / Tone Chimes Unit | Lessons, Songs, Worksheets, & Assessments
A full musical unit on choir chimes / tone chimes is just what your late elementary & middle school students are dying to learn to play! This unit is written for 3 octave chimes (C4-C7) but can also be used with G4-G6 hand bell sets. In 3-6 months, students will advance through lessons on:TechniqueRinging & dampeningHistorical overviewBass clef & treble clef pitchesRhythm Time signaturesAccidentalsAlso included in the unit:Classical music exposure3 worksheets6 performance pieces3 r
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5th - 10th
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Prokofiev's "Peter & the Wolf" Storytelling & Listening Unit
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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1st - 5th
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Also included in: Year Long Music Lessons & Curriculum for 2nd Grade | 30% off
Elementary Music Songs & Games of Jamaica
This Jamaican Folk Song booklet is full of beautiful and fun songs and games for the elementary music classroom! Lesson plans, sheet music and lyric sheets are included for each song. All songs are traditional Jamaican folk tunes. Things to do inside:-Skip Jump Rope games for elementary music-Elementary rhythm lessons-Dalcroze Eurhythmics-Macro Beat/Micro Beat-Performance worthy repertoire - perfect for spring concerts!-Unison and 2-part singing for the elementary music student voice-Culturally
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K - 5th
Also included in: Music Around the World Bundle - Activities | Drumming | Sub Plans
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