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8th grade performing arts resources for SMART Notebook
A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley Jeopardy Review Game
This is a Jeopardy review game for the drama version of A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley. This drama is featured in the new Prentice Hall Literature books (Common Core Edition) for 7th Graders. It is formatted using Smart Notebook and is made to be used with the Smartboard. All of the categories are pre-linked to each question slide, and each question slide is linked back to the questions, making it easy and quick to navigate in class. There is also a red bar that can be taken again and a
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6th - 10th
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SMARTBOARD Figurative Language in Christmas Songs Activity
Smartboard Christmas activity - identify figurative language in Christmas songs. Students have to read through the lyrics of different winter tunes and Christmas songs and identify types of figurative language, such as metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, or idiom. This is a digital resource. YOU MUST HAVE SMART NOTEBOOK SOFTWARE for this version.* Lyrics have examples highlighted in different colors, so they can try to figure out the color code. Each song has a snowflake link to a mus
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
An introduction to major and minor tonality
A basic introduction to major and minor tonalities.Click on the scales and song samples to listen.12 song sorting activity on the last slide (click on the song # to hear the example, drag the Song # to the correct amplifier to see if you are correct!)*updated product to remove flash application
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3rd - 8th
Rhythm Builder (SMART) - Crotchets, quavers, rests, quarter notes, eighth notes
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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PreK - 8th
Pictures at an Exhibition - an Interactive Listening Unit
This unit helps elementary students understand the concept of "program music" by introducing the famous piece: "Pictures at an Exhibition" by M. Mussorsky (orchestrated by M. Ravel).
This piece encourages students to listen to the music to guess what the picture/painting is of. When available, the actual paintings are shared. Question prompts and audio files are included (audio files are embedded by clicking on the title). Please feel free to include movement and dramatization of the pieces
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2nd - 8th
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Music: Beginning Guitar SMARTboard
Learn about the parts of the guitar, types of guitars, listen to sound clips of other interesting string instruments, learn to read guitar melodies with tablature (link included) and basic guitar chords. Click on titles of the music to listen to the songs being played on a guitar and use an online guitar tuner.
There are also links to videos of famous guitar players of several styles and time periods: Andres Segovia, Les Paul, Van Halen, Joan Jett and B.B. King.
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3rd - 10th
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We're Going On A Bear Hunt! Song and Sorting Activity (ForSMARTBOARD)
This is an activity that utilizes receptive sorting skills! Use this chant "we're going on a bear hunt" with your kids and have them tap out the rhythm on their knees. Then pack up your backpack for the hunt with everything you'll need! At the end, play a great "spot the bear" game!
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PreK - 12th
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Interactive Xylophone with Pentatonic Charts
This SMART Board file is very useful when students use the Orff instruments in class. If you touch the bars they will disappear, making it easy for students to see what bars they need on their instrument. As a bonus, there are four additional charts already set up in commonly used pentatonic scales reminding students which notes to remove.C pentatonic = no burgers or friesD pentatonic = no graham crackersF pentatonic = no bacon and eggsG pentatonic = no chicken fingers
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K - 8th
Music: All About the Piano Keyboard for SMARTboard - revised 2015
This notebook file is a interactive, fun way to introduce the piano keyboard! It offers an introduction to the piano keyboard with the use of fun activities and video links in 17 quality pages.
Your students will learn about the piano keyboard by exploring the different types of keyboard instruments: grand piano, upright piano and electric piano, learn the names of the keys with engaging activities and play a virtual piano. In addition, watch videos of famous pianists including Elton John,
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2nd - 9th
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Guitar Introduction to Chords and Reading Chord Charts
There really isn't a lot of resources for teaching Guitar to groups. This SMART lesson goes over the basics of reading guitar chord diagrams, understanding finger numbers on the guitar, and gives an assessment with answer key.
There are 3D representative visuals of how the hand should look when playing specific chord shapes and are moveable.
There are even some clear and easy interdisciplinary relationships with Math. Principals and Administrators should love that.
Finger Numbers are in
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Scott Joplin; The King of Ragtime - SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK EDITION
This Smart Notebook lesson (appropriate for elementary music students in grades 3 and up) introduces students to the famous African-American composer Scott Joplin, one of the most popular composer of the Ragtime era. Included in this unit of study, you will find colorful graphics/clip-art, historical background information and pictures on topics like player pianos, cakewalks, etc., short video/audio examples of themes being discussed within the lesson, attached audio examples of colorful listen
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3rd - 8th
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Rhythm Taco Stand - Notes & Rests - Smart Board CINCO DE MAYO GAME
“Rhythm Taco Stand” is my new taco-themed note value game with fun sound effects! It is an interactive, Smart Notebook game that assesses student learning about rhythm basics while keeping them engaged in learning.
This game assesses all students’ understanding of the following note values:
- quarter note,
- dotted quarter note,
- half note,
- dotted half note,
- whole note,
- dotted whole note,
- eighth note (and paired eighths),
- sixteenth note (and 4 sixteenths),
- eighth rest,
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
A 3 Part Unit of Form for Upper Elementary School
This smartboard lesson is a 3 part (3 40 minute session) unit on form. Each part contains listening and visual examples. All media is embedded into the file.
Part 1 - Round, Canon, and Fugues - Includes a finale file of Pachabel's cannon that visually shows the canon form (need to put finale into scroll view to work best), a video of a school production of "Fugue for Tinhorns" that through choreography shows a Canon (singer singing the beginning of the melody is staged center/front), and a
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4th - 8th
The Cup Game (history and how to)
All About the Cup Game
Super popular with elementary - high school students, thanks to the movie "Pitch Perfect!"
* Learn the history of the song "When I'm Gone" and the game itself.
* Learn how to play the game (with notation)!
* Embedded audio and video samples
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4th - 9th
Rhythm Football (4/4 Version)
Are you looking for a fun way to assess rhythm? Rhythm Football allows you to individually assess your students' ability to read and perform rhythmic patterns using an altered version of football!
This product includes 12 rounds of football with 20 flashcards each. Each round is increasingly difficult and includes rhythmic values from previous rounds.
*Round 1 - Ta, Ti-Ti, Rest (Quarter Note / Paired Eighth Notes / Quarter Rest)
*Round 2 - Adds Half Note / Half Rest
*Round 3 - Adds Whole Note
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1st - 8th
Boomwhacker Interactive Song List- Kooshball
Use a Kooshball or simple selection by hand to give your music students the chance to choose from a few popular songs to play as a group using Boomwhackers! Let it Go, Stars Wars Theme, Star Spangled Banner, a Mystery Tune, and so many more! Fun way to learn how to read music and work in a group to create music!
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
The Nutcracker Suite-Dance Of Sugar Plum Fairy-(Listening Map) SMBD/NTBK ED.
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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K - 8th
The 4 Instrument Families of the Orchestra
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
African-American Music-Part 1: History/Influences On Today's Music-SMBD/NTBK ED.
This entertaining and engaging interactive SMART NOTEBOOK lesson (appropriate for grades 4-8) takes elementary music students on a journey through African-American Music and Culture. The journey begins during the Civil War era and continues up through the mid 1900's Jazz era. This particular file is Part 1 of a 3 Part unit. Parts 2 and 3 are also sold as separate files in my TpT store. Genres explored and studied in this unit (Part 1, 2, 3 combined) are as follows:
Introduction to the Unit
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4th - 8th
Wild about Rhythm - Note/Rest Values - SmartNotebook - elementary music
“Wild about Rhythm!” is a Smart Notebook game that assesses students’ ability to read 4-beat rhythm patterns using quarter note, two eighth notes, and quarter rest. This is the Smart Notebook Version. To find the PowerPoint version, click here: Wild about Rhythm - Call and Response Game - PowerPoint Version
This game is a call and response game. See the preview for the format. You will need rhythm instruments for this game.
There are several ways to play this game:
1. Teacher plays the "Call"
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PreK - 8th
The Nutcracker Suite-Waltz Of The Flowers (A Listening Map)SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK
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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K - 8th
Cowboy Tunes & Songs from the Westward Expansion - SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK ED.
It's finally here!! Mrs. Kuchta's Corner, An Elementary Music Wonderland presents to you this fantastic collection of famous historical American cowboy tunes and westward expansion songs that we all know and LOVE to sing. This collection is a GREAT addition to your elementary music classroom library and can also be a fantastic cross-curricular aide to add to any regular elementary classroom teacher's library as well to help supplement your American History units of study. Lyrics and melodic n
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K - 8th
Music Jepoardy!
Have fun with this interactive whiteboard activity that can be used with grades 3-8 in the elementary music class. Categories include: Dynamics, Timbre, Ensembles, Tempos, and Musical Symbols. both visual and audio examples are utilized during this activity with your class!
Music Jepoardy! by Ed Anderson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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3rd - 8th
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Danse Macabre - A Mysterious Spooky Tale Told Through Music-SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK
This SMART NOTEBOOK lesson is appropriate for elementary music students in grades 4th - 8th grade. This lesson takes students on a mysterious, musical journey into the twisted, genius mind of French composer Camille Saint-Saens. Students will identify musical themes portrayed by specific characters, emotions, ideas, etc. Students will also be able to identify and label (by sight and sound) various instruments of the orchestra that occur in the tale and the themes they represent. A listening
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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