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Music Lesson Plans
Lesson Plans from
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
More than 50 high-interest lesson plans for
a variety of grade levels. Many are cross-disciplinary.
The
Lesson Plans Page: Music
A large selection of lesson plans organized
by grade level.
Music
Lesson Plans from the Teacher's Reference Desk
Formerly
Ask Eric, this site contains many music lesson plans for
a variety of grade levels.
Rock
and Roll Library
Eighteen
lessons. See their
homepage.
ArtsEdge
- Instructional Resources for the Performing Arts
Lesson plans, units, and resources for dance,
music, and theater from the Kennedy Center. Many
of the lesson plans and units are interdisciplinary.
Core Knowledge - Art and Music Lesson Plans
Several elementary lesson plans in pdf format.
American
Musical Theater
Seven units from the
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Blues Impulse
Eleven Units from the
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Music History
WebQuest
See also
Music Era WebQuest
and
Composers in Time.
Opera is Elementary
Elementary-grade lesson plans
from The New York City Opera. Many of these lessons require
Internet use.
Sound: Ideas for Interdisciplinary
Lessons
Ideas for integrating science and music.
Carnival
of The Animals
A kindergarten lesson plan.
Find the Sound
A K-3 lesson in which students learn the sounds of musical instruments.
Introduction
to Music
A primary-grade lesson plan.
Keyboards
A lesson plan for 2nd grade.
Music
in Africa
A 2nd-grade lesson plan. See also
Exploring
African Music
and
African
Music
for
similar lesson plans.
Music
Appreciation
A thematic unit for the primary grades.
Music
Lesson on Tempo
For grades 2-3.
Musical
Instrument Appreciation
A lesson
plan for grades 2-4.
Integrated Dance Curriculum
A curriculum
unit for grades K-6.
Dance
lesson Ideas
A good selection of dance lesson plans from P.E. Central.
See also
Movement
and Music ONE!
Vivaldi,
The Four Seasons
A unit for
grades 3-5.
America,
A Home for Every Culture
A lesson plan for grades K-4 from
ArtsEdge
Instructional Resources.
Incorporating
HyperStudio into a Music Lesson Plan
A 4th-grade lesson plan.
Music
Lesson on Melody and Rhythm
For grades 4-5.
Making
a Musical Instrument
A 5th-grade lesson plan.
Major Key Signatures and Scales
A lesson plan for
grades 5-6.
Composition
in Seven Steps
A lesson plan for grades 5+. See also
Composing Unit - Rhythm Charts.
Ellington,
Music, and Color
Five middle-grade lesson plans from the
Duke
Ellington Centennial Site.
Connecting
Pachelbel, Beethoven, and Mussorgsky to Disco and
Rap
A middle-grade lesson plan from the
Rock
and Roll Library.
Musicianship
Basics
A lesson plan for grades 5-10 which utilizes
a free demo software which is intended to be used
for revision, practice, and assessment of fundamental
ear training and theory skills. The link for downloading
the software is included in the lesson.
Composing
Choral Warm-ups
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 in which students
compose their own warm-ups for chorus, using basic
musical skills and awareness of the voice as an instrument.
Exploring Musical
Instruments Using the Internet
A lesson plan for
gades 6-8.
Making
Music and Playing the Blues
Another lesson plan for grades 6-12 from
Education
World.
African
Clave Rhythms and Popular Music
A lesson plan for grades 7-9.
Intervals, Scales,
and Triads
A high school lesson
plan. See also
Intervals.
Mathematics
of Music
A secondary lesson plan integrating music and
math.
A Round and A Round
A choral music lesson plan for grades 9-12.
Learning
From Lyrics
A lesson plan for grade 9-12 in which students
research contemporary songs (alternative, country,
metal, pop, rap, and rock music) to study current
social issues.
A Woman's Influence: Elanor Roosevelt
and the Marian Anderson Concert
A high school lesson plan
in which students learn about the role Elanor Roosevelt
played in clearning the way for Ms. Anderson to perform at the
Lincoln Memorial on Easter sunday 1939 and the importance of
this event in African American history.
Holistic
Lesson Plan 2
A
lesson plan for 9th-grade choir integrating the cognitive
and affective domains.
Instrumental
Jazz
A
9th-grade lesson plan utilizing the multiple intelligences
model.
A Web-Based introduction to Basic Music theory and Music
Composition
A high school lesson plan. See also
Tune After Tune.
Teen Music WebQuest
See also Country
Music WebQuest.
Music Resources
MusicStaff.com
Need to find a music
teacher, music school, or music lessons? MusicStaff.com
can help locate just what you need anywhere
in the United States.
Bulletin Boards for
th Music Classroom
Excellent source for ideas for your next bulletin board!
Music
Dictionary
Definitions
and information about nearly everything musical. See
also
Glossary of Musical Terms.
Museum of
Musical Instruments
Collections, exhibitins,
articles, manufacturers.
The
Musical Scientist
Information on how instruments make sound as
well as ideas for homemade instruments.
Worldwide
Internet Music Resources - Instruments
If you're looking for information on a specific
musical instrument, you'll probably find it here. See
also
Music Resources
Outline
for
a well-organized list of links to everything musical.
Classical
Net
Basic repertoire list, classical music CD buying
guide, composers works and data, reviews and articles, books
and scores, classical music links.
Composers
Online
Biographies and musical excerpts organized
alphabetically. See also
Composer
Timeline.
Musical
Periods
An overview of composers from medieval to modern
times from Classical Net.
Music History 102
From the Internet Public Library, this site
offers a guide to western composers from the middle ages
to the present. See also
Musical Forms.
This Day in Music History
Let
your students know what happened on this date throughout
the history of music,
Musicology
and Music History
Music history links.
Individual
Musicians (All Genres)
An alphabetical index of musicians.
Composers
Information on 164 composers.
Genres
and Types of Music
Information on any type of music you're interested
in learning about!
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
A great site with a lot of information.
K-12 Resources for Music Educators
See also
Music Teacher Resources.
Music
Education Online
Click Music
Links to find the music you need.
Mojo's
Musical Mouseum
Online source
for song lyrics.
Music
Education at Datadragon
Online music
tutorials and guides.
National
Association for Music Education
Home page
for the National Association for Music Education
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