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- Create a Music Carnival
- This is a lesson in which the students will combine their knowledge of rhythm, pitch, and tone color with their imaginations to create original compositions about animals. They will use "Carnival of the Animals", by Saint-Saens, and "Peter and the Wolf", by Prokofiev, for comparisons.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Music Education)
- By Rowena Licko.
- Developing continuous air during articulation
- Combining long tones and burst-tonguing will assist many beginning instrument players to eliminate excessive breaths while articulating.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Music Education)
- By Lynn Dale.
- Dino-rhythms
- Students will read rhythm notations written on dinosaur shapes, discover how to play two digit number patterns, create their own rhythm patterns and play rhythms on unpitched percussion instruments.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Music Education)
- By Amy Snyder.
- "Eggs-tra" special sounds
- Students will identify, compare, and classify the sounds made by plastic eggs filled with rice, pebbles, and salt. They will graph the results of their discoveries. They will then compose and tape sound pieces illustrating dynamic levels they discovered. Finally they will construct their own "maraca" using plastic eggs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Music Education)
- By Sondra Edwards.
- Exploring the families of instruments
- Students will learn about the families of instruments and conclude the lesson by constructing a model instrument from one of the families studied.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Music Education)
- By Leslie Cothern.
- Instruments in action
- Students will demonstrate mastery of eight measures of four beats by speaking, moving and playing. They will classify instruments metals, woods, scrapers, ringers, shakers, etc.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Music Education)
- By Jeanne Anderson.
- Music reading railroad
- Students will learn to read quarter notes, rests and repeat signs using a traditional folk song.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Music Education)
- By Melissa Vincent.
- Musical mountain
- Students will learn to hear the differences between low, middle, and high pitches. They will be able to visualize these differences by looking at the low, middle, and high points of a mountain.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Music Education)
- By Margaret Harris.
- Native American music: Two North Carolina tribes
- In this lesson plan, students will listen to songs from two North Carolina tribes. Students will learn about the music through listening, analyzing, singing, moving, and playing instruments.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Music Education and Social Studies)
- By Merritt Raum Flexman.
- Our class band
- In this lesson students will play percussion instruments that have been divided into four groups: Drums, Woods, Metals and Shakers/Scrapers. They will perform a song sung to the tune of 'Old MacDonald had a Farm' and perform the instruments of these groups.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Music Education)
- By Barbara Tilton.
- A Ram Sam Sam: A Moroccan tune with a twist
- Students will enjoy singing, playing rhythm instuments, reading notations, and performing a Moroccan tune in two different musical styles on student keyboards.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Music Education)
- By Marie Batten.
- Rondo with B-A-G
- Students will read letter and rhythmic notation of the song "Hot Cross Buns," compose a phrase using notes B,A,G, and perform the song as the "A" section of a rondo form.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Music Education)
- By Beth Younts.
- Shapely compositions
- Students will compose four measures of music using shapes to denote the quarter and eighth notes. The individual compositions are combined to make a longer piece of music that students enjoy playing on rhythm instruments.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Music Education)
- Telephone numbers of the stars
- Students will read number notation, use cooperative learning, develop coordination skills and put musical phrases together by playing the song "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" on xylophones.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Music Education)
- By Patricia H. Taylor.
- Women in flight: Using music to study American women pioneers in flight
- As North Carolina's 97-98 Christa McAuliffe Teaching Fellow, I designed this plan to musically enhance the 5th grade social studies of American heroes, focusing on women pioneers in flight. It is intended to utilize singing and rhythmic activities to compare and contrast the lives of Amelia Earhart and Christa McAuliffe. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to successfully complete a solo trans-Atlantic flight and tragically disappeared while attempting to fly around the world in 1937. Christa McAuliffe was selected for NASA's Teacher-in-Space program and tragically died in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster. I traditionally use this plan close to the January 28 anniversary of the shuttle disaster.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Music Education and Social Studies)
- By Robin Smathers.
