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- 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.
- 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 2 Music Education)
- By Amy Snyder.
- 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 1–2 Music Education)
- By Jeanne Anderson.
- Balinese gamelan musicians perform
- Balinese gamelan musicians perform, as seen from the rear side of the orchestra. Two men, wearing red pants, long-sleeved blue shirts, and red and gold embroidered headscarves hold their mallets just above their intricately carved and painted metallophone...
- Format: image/photograph
- 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.
- Valentine heart game
- Students will respond to music through singing, moving, playing instruments, and improvisation while integrating first grade math curriculum and Valentine's Day.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Music Education)
- 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.
- 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)
- Muy Thai music excerpts
- Muy Thai is Thai kickboxing. In Chiang Mai, fellow travelers and I went to see a Muy Thai competition. It looks a lot like American boxing, where bare-chested fighters compete in a raised ring that is surrounded by elastic ropes. They fight in several rounds,...
- Format: audio
- Banjo
- Format: image/photograph
- Musical concert in Chinese opera house
- This music is part of a musical concert at a dinner theater in Penang, Malaysia. Though Chinese opera was the main form of music, the orchestra played other songs, such as this one, which seems to be influenced by Latin American rhythm, even though it is played...
- Format: audio
- Music reading railroad
- Students will learn to read quarter notes, rests and repeat signs using a traditional folk song.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Music Education)
- By Melissa Vincent.
- 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.
- The Shelton House Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts
- Housed in a historic home in Waynesville, NC, the Museum of NC Handicrafts displays 19th century crafts, musical instruments, and Native American artifacts.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Women and men musicians accompany a water puppet performance in Hanoi
- Women and men musicians play traditional instruments, including drums and flute, at a water puppet performance in Hanoi. Vietnam's unique water puppet tradition is said to date back approximately 1,000 years. Early northern Vietnamese farmers created these...
- Format: image/photograph
- 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.
- Cao Dai religious music
- This music and singing was recorded during one of the regular Cao Dai religious ceremonies that occur four times daily. This temple in DaNang is the second largest after the headquarters which are located in Tay Ninh. Men enter the temple from the right, walk...
- Format: audio
- Teaching "style"
- This exercise works best as a review at the mid-point or end of a literature course. Paired students describe the style of ten authors ranging from "ornate" to "plain," and then compare the authors' styles through a designated series of metaphors.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- By Charlotte Osterman.
- "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.
- General Taylor Storming Monterey
- From the Library of Congress: On September 27, 1974, the Music Division of the Library of Congress recreated a typical concert of brass-band and vocal music from mid-nineteenth-century America. Recorded selections from that concert are presented...
- Format: audio/music
