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Music composition projects for homeschool
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Make an Instrument Music Project | Music Assessment for General Music
This Make an Instrument Music Project and Music Assessment is a fun and creative music assignment for Middle School and General Music students. Your students will enjoy showing their skills as they design, make and perform on their own musical instrument. This music project is great as a STEAM challenge and has opportunities for cross-curricular projects with Art and Science.Everything that you need is included, all you have to do is print the pages that suit your needs and you and your students
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5th - 9th
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Guided Music Composition Activity for Elementary Students - S'mores Composing
This fun and engaging composition activity was inspired by one of my favorite campfire treats: S'mores! The pages can be used as slides, on iPad or other tablet, printed, and more. Step by step instructions lead students to compose their very own song over a period of days or weeks depending on your teaching schedule. To make this composition activity super memorable for your students, serve S'mores at the end of the activity, as students are performing their compositions for each other.Plus, Na
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2nd - 5th
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Music Projects and Music Assessments Bundle for Middle School and General Music
Looking for fun and engaging music projects and music assessments for your Middle and General Music classes? Then look no further with this bundle of classroom tested, low prep, music composition and performance assessments designed to inspire creativity in young musicians.Click here to stay up to date with latest product releases Included in this Middle School Music Project Bundle: Rock Music Design ProjectMusic Rhythm Composition ProjectMake an Instrument ProjectAfrican Music ProjectThese midd
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5th - 8th
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GarageBand Music Tech Project 2: Get in the Loop
PROJECT #2 FROM MY BUNDLE**Download my freebie to see EXACTLY how I format my projects.**This is a music technology project using GarageBand. Your students will learn about musical form and instrumentation of songs. They will compose their own song using the prerecorded loops that come with the GarageBand program. If you like this, check out my 12 Project Bundle which includes a comprehensive section listing all the resources (links, videos, articles, etc.) I use to teach the projects. I also ha
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Pop Music Production: A Comprehensive Digital Music Unit
There are 3 main projects and over half a dozen stand alone lessons to provide context and clarity. It's intended for use with Google Classroom or other online platforms and is perfect for at-home or remote learning. Full of video tutorials, screen shots, and other "how-to's" it makes it easy for both the student AND the teacher to master this content. I taught this unit as a 5 week daily elective for 7th & 8th graders but it can be easily modified to suit your needs. The goal of the course
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Advertising Music Composition Project
This Advertising Music Composition Project is designed for Middle and High School Music students. It is a Performance and Composition assignment project that your students will enjoy creating and completing. Everything that you need is included, all you have to do is print the pages you want and your students are ready to go!Click here to stay up to date with latest product releases Included in the Advertising Music Composition Project: Advertising music Composition Task Description pageSeveral
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8th - 10th
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Also included in: Composition Music Bundle | Music Composing Assessments for General Music
Stand Up Comedy Unit
This unit gives you a step by step guide on how to create a stand up comedy routine. The students write original jokes and are assigned to groups who help revise the jokes for the performance. Every worksheet, guideline and even suggestions for comedian examples is included in this unit.
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6th - 12th
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"Change Sings" by Amanda Gorman Music Unit: Rhythm, Compose, Color, Read
Amanda Gorman's words and Loren Long's pictures come together in "Change Sings" to illustrate the beauty of an anthem. These editable Google Slides off your students a chance to dive deeper into the word of anthems, learn about rhythms, color a guitar, sing, and even compose their own anthem. There are 3 differentiated lessons for K-8 (or even HS).Grades K-2 LessonRead “Change Sings” - YouTube link embedded if you do not have access to the bookDiscussion questions - animatedListen to anthems
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K - 9th
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Also included in: Distance Learning | 35 Music & Literature Lessons MEGA BUNDLE 20% off
ELEMENTS of MUSIC Book-making Project, Definitions, Mnemonics, Optional Workbook
This nifty booklet is a great way to introduce or review the elements of music. It is easy and fun to make and afterward, serves as a quick reference for students. Adding the optional work/dictation pages provides practice all in one place. (You can also make a separate workbook if desired and design your own pages.)Each vocabulary word (music element) page includes a definition with mnemonic graphics to help students visualize and remember meanings. This booklet correlates with my Elements of M
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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Song Exploder: Music Analysis and Podcast Creation | General Music Unit Project
This exciting unit project outline uses the format of the hit podcast series "Song Exploder" to help students explore modern music analysis and podcast creation! The 5-10 class period unit project gives students the opportunity to listen to and analyze modern music of their own choosing, ultimately creating a podcast episode based on their own song analysis!The 5 part outline walks students through the process of music analysis using guiding questions that helps scaffold in depth, well thought
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Composer Research Poster Project & Presentation
This is designed to help students work together to discover and share information about the life, career, and music of a famous composer or musician!
This includes an example/sample layout of what the final project should look like, as well as headings students can cut and glue into their project. There is a group project grading rubric to hold the teammates accountable for their effort and quality of work. Designed for teams of three, but could be flexible. Directions for the project are i
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6th - 9th
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Zombie Composing Guided Music Composition Activity and Worksheets for Piano
This fun and engaging zombie composing activity was inspired by one of my favorite holidays: Halloween! Step by step instructions lead students to compose their very own song over a period of days or weeks depending on your teaching schedule. To make this music composition activity even more engaging and memorable for your students, have them perform their compositions for each other during your class Halloween party, or any time of year!The pages can be used as slides, projected, used on iPad o
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: Halloween Music Games and Activities for Piano Lessons Bundle
Video Game Music Bundle- History Of Video Game Music & Creating Your Own Game!
In this three-week bundle, students will get an immersive experience into the world of video game. This bundle has a one-week unit on the history of video game music and a two-week project where students will create their own video game and compose music for it using free, online resources. The descriptions for each unit are below:Video Game Music Unit:This unit is an incredibly fun and entertaining way to expose your kids to a variety of music in a fun manner: through video games! Video games a
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
BandLab Lesson Series: Set 1-Getting Started in the DAW
Interested in getting your students into music creation? BandLab is an online DAW that allows you and your students to practice some basic skills in music creation and production. This set of activities is the first set in the Opus13 BandLab Lesson Series which introduces you and your students to BandLab and how to create mini songs using premade loops. No audio engineering/music production experience required!This set has 5 Activities and an Assessment. This 18 page document includes teache
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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10 Music Technology Project Outlines | Full Year Project-Based Music Curriculum
10 Exciting Project Outlines to start or re-energize your music technology / general music classes! These project outlines cover a plethora of topics related to the world of music technology, audio engineering, sound design, recording arts and electronic composition. The outlines can be used to structure a full year course curriculum or as supplemental projects in a general music or music composition course. Excite and challenge your students with these relevant and engaging project-based learni
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Podcasts in Music History: Student Podcast Creation | General Music Unit Project
This exciting project based learning unit outline challenges students to research and create their own unique music podcast episode based on a music related topic of their choosing! The 10-15 class period unit project helps scaffold student analysis of different musical styles, genres, and time periods, with the end result being a student generated podcast episode based on their research.A 7-part project outline is complete with guiding questions for student response that scaffold active music e
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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*Best Seller*Nice & Easy Composer Study- Grading Rubric Included, Music History
**Best Seller!!**
This simple, non-themed composer study is very versatile. It can be used with various grade level work, used as a GATE project, a homeschool project, an extra credit project, or a myriad of other uses.
It also comes with a simple and easy to use grading rubric, as well as a student self-assessment.
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2nd - 8th
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"I am the Storm" Book-based Music Lesson | Compose a Soundscape
Inspired by hurricanes, tornados, & more, "I am the Storm" practically begs students to create soundscapes! From connecting to weather & science to meeting the National Core Arts Standards for creating, this book-based music lesson encourages groups to compose collaboratively.Included in this resource:Book introduction pageRead aloud link available if the book is unavailable5 group soundscape stormsSoundscape examples & definitionSoundscape worksheets - color & B/WSoundscape ex
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3rd - 7th
Outside of the Box Composition Unit & Project
This is a fun way to have your music students compose using "outside the box" online composition tools. Discuss what digital music is. Have discussions about what your students consider to be music (bring up John Cage or DJs who only use pre-recorded sounds). With this multi-class unit, the students will explore: Typatone, Groove Pizza, Chrome Music Lab, and Mario Paint. The students will then choose one of the tools for a final project. Rubric is included. All online composition tools use
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3rd - 9th
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Ancient Egypt Mummification Process Project
This Ancient Egyptian project has been a class favorite! Not only are students able to share and explore their creativity, it allows them to immerse themselves into ancient Egypt. As we all know students learn differently, with this project students are given three options to showcase the ten steps of the mummification process. They can create a script for a play, create a movie or video, and lastly create a song. Group work can be challenging, so I have created group work roles for the students
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Ancient Egypt Unit Bundle
Music Composition and Research Projects for Intermediate & Senior Music Classes
This bundle contains 8 engaging, practical, and creative projects designed for beginner music classes in grades 7-11 that can be used again and again.This resource includes:music composition projectsmusic technology-based and recording projectssong analysis worksheetsunique podcast and playlist projectsmusical artist spotlight projectsmusic research guides and templateshelpful hints pages for Audacity, Finale, and Garage Band music softwareBoth PRINTABLE and DIGITAL versions of this project are
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7th - 11th
General & Vocal Music Sub Plans
This guide is meant to provide multiple learning opportunities for students in your absence with a focus on choral and general music students, allowing for students to create their own rhythms and sounds, respond to videos and even following a concert, describe what their behavior should have been.It uses resources available online including the PBS series, the Army’s choral videos as well as useful articles. InTune monthly magazine is also a source, and the worksheet may be used with multiple
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6th - 12th
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Rap a Children's Book Project
This project has students pick a simple Children's Book that has a good rhythm to it, create a beat in an online app (I use Soundtrap, but you can use GarageBand or any other DAW), then record themselves rapping the book. In a classroom setting, the students can also use classroom instruments, beatboxing, or any other method to create their beat. Feel free to change the requirements so that they work best for your students!Great for a distance learning/virtual learning scenario!
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4th - 12th
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Music Composition Project | 3rd-5th Grade | Orff Instruments & Recorders
Working on Composition with your 3rd-5th Grade Music Students? Want to teach your students valuable music literacy skills? There is no better way for students to gain an appreciation for music than to experience it and compose it themselves! This composition project details every step of the process to writing their very own piece of music to be performed on either an Orff instrument such as a xylophone or metallophone, and soprano recorder.Students will experience the joy and satisfaction of wr
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3rd - 6th
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