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Instrumental music thematic unit plans
Handbell Unit - Learn to Play Hand bells / Tone chimes
A best seller. A unit of study for teaching upper elementary and middle school students how to play hand bells (aka hand chimes or tone chimes). This is the process I have used for years to teach 5th - 8th graders to play. It is a step-by-step process with 7 lessons, songs to use and how to teach the lessons. It has a .pdf file of the teaching process along with 11 projectable .pdfs to use with the class. This unit is for 2 octave hand bells (G4 to G6).It takes about a month (or 7 class periods
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5th - 9th
The True Beginning: Before the Method Book
Curriculum and lesson plans for the first weeks of your beginning string orchestra class. Learn how to set up your beginners for success as they establish good playing habits through step-by-step lesson plans, fun games, and motivating music.
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4th - 8th
Bucket Drumming Karate (Google Slides Version) w Play Along Tracks!
**NOTE: This is for the Google slides version - a PowerPoint version is also available.This is a fun way to establish rhythms with students from kindergarten on up, but I've found it works best from third grade through eighth grade, giving kids a way to not only learn aurally but visually and kinetically all at once! All you need are some sticks and some buckets, and it can be as easily as chopping up some dowel rods from your local hardware store, chopsticks from your local eatery, or even buyi
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3rd - 6th
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Lin-Manuel Miranda | Digital & Printable Music Composer Listening Unit
If you loved Hamilton, Encanto, Moana, Mary Poppins, or In the Heights, you're going to love this Lin-Manuel Miranda Listening Unit! Since LMM is responsible for composing music for both film scores & the Broadway stage, his music will be familiar and engaging to a wide variety of students. This composer unit makes is great for in person learning as well as during Distance Learning! Also, please note that these diverse stories are key for students being able to feel included in your class
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2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Hispanic Heritage Month | Songs, Composers & Bulletin Boards (20% off)
UKULELE UNIT for Music Class! Google Slides & Canva Slideshows
This 44 page slideshow is ready-to-present meaning you can start this Ukulele Unit TODAY! This unit is meant to be taught over the course of a few weeks, depending on how often you see your students and how quickly they master each chord. The slideshow is available on both Google Slides & Canva (best with Canva Pro or Canva Education). Included:Ukulele BasicsUkulele HistoryUkulele AnatomyHow to Hold, Tune, & Play UkuleleChords BasicsChords included: C, Am, F, G, G7, D, C7, A7Videos, Imag
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: GROWING MUSIC CLASSROOM BUNDLE! 38 resources and counting!
Bucket Drumming with Disney Inspired Beats
This is a fun way to establish rhythms with bucket drumming, using tunes that most students already know! The rhythms are interesting but not hard, and are designed for students to work on syncopation, rhythmic literacy through repetition and visuals. The beats are inspired by Disney music from Zootopia, Tarzan, The Lion King, Lilo and Stitch, Moana, Princess and the Frog and The Little Mermaid.The songs include:Try EverythingTrashin' the CampI Just Can't Wait to be KingHawaiian Roller Coaster
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1st - 8th
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Ukulele Interactive Notebook - Growing Resource - Unit 1
This growing interactive activity notebook will guide you and your students through the learning process of playing ukulele!
Lock In This Price! You will receive future units free of charge when you buy the current version (the price of this resource will increase to reflect the added units). E-mail notifications will be sent to buyers when this resource is updated.
I have designed this interactive notebook with new musicians in mind. Most of the people who enter my classroom or watch my You
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Not Grade Specific
Bucket Drumming Classic Rock
It's time to take it to the next level! This set of rhythms works great for bucket drumming but also for various percussion ensembles. It combines multiple rhythms and beats to give kids a chance to experience old and new (to them!) songs while keeping a steady beat, learning how to play effectively in an ensemble and having a great time making music together!
Each song includes instructions as well as lyrics, rhythms, web links and even gives you the chance to rick-roll your students! All o
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3rd - 12th
Hand Bell Music - Christmas Handbell bundle
I love using handbells with kids and I've done it for 25 years. This is a bundle of 7 of my Handbell arrangments for 5th grade, middle school, and can also be used with high school and adults.Listen to a digital track of each of the songs.Carol of the BellsDeck the HallsDing Dong Merrily on HighGood King WenceslasJingle BellsO Christmas TreeSing We Now of Christmas(Some of these arrangements are sold separately)I also have resources for:Teaching children to play recordersTeaching children to pla
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5th - 12th
The Nutcracker Music Activities for The Elementary Classroom
Use these comprehensive slides to guide your students through a lesson of The Nutcracker with Musician of The Month: Tchaikovsky! All of the text is editable and the necessary audio and links are already embedded.What's included...23 slide presentation on Tchaikovsky and music from The Nutcracker2 biography slides with an interactive videoDirections for the "statue game" with winter poses and Dance of The Sugar Plum Fairy audioMarch of The Nutcracker Cup Game slides with rhythms, instructions, a
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PreK - 6th
Vivaldi's Spring, Summer, Autumn & Winter Music Listening Activities and Maps
Teach Vivaldi’s most famous violin concertos, The Four Seasons, throughout your school year. This bundle includes: 178 pages - 34 worksheets plus many teaching and info pages, and activities. May be used with various grade levels and are printable PDFs. Worksheets are provided for printing and with fillable form fields for students to type in responses. Music listening links are SafeShare ad-free videos. See my store page for complete lists of resource pages for each season.Look at the previews
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3rd - 6th
More BANG for your Book: A Bundle of Drum Lessons using Children's Literature
A bundle of great activities to incorporate more literature in your music classroom! Use these five lessons together as a drum unit or space them individually throughout the year. Students will love reading the simple rhymes in these stories and then playing them on the drums. In the process they will learn about reading rhythmic notation, dynamics, form, improvisation, drum technique, and different types of drums. This bundle of drumming lessons uses the following books:• Thump, Thump, Rat-
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K - 2nd
"Keys to Treasure" Piano Unit for grades 4-6
Want to teach a piano unit but have a limited number of keyboards in your classroom? This is a fun and motivational pirate-themed piano unit that will last about 3-4 months! This unit was designed for the general music classroom, grades 4-6, with a minimum of 6 keyboards/pianos. Students work in groups for this unit. However this unit can also be adapted for piano labs and for other grade levels. This unit includes everything you will need to teach students how to play the piano from square one!
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4th - 6th
Ukulele Songs, Assessments, Finger Charts, & Decor Bundle (20% off)
This 20% off bundle unit has everything you'd need to teach ukulele! From honoring the ukulele's Hawaiian roots to building confidnce through SEL & Growth Mindset posters, assessments to fingering charts, and loads of songs, your students are sure to LOVE playing this string instrument! While Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI or AAPI) Month is a great time for Ukulele, this bundle has you covered all year long!Aligned with the National Core Arts Standards (Music)
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3rd - 8th
Elements of Music | Anchor Chart Posters (Digital Print)
Teach your students about the elements of music, and then remind them about what you taught throughout the school year with these Elements of Music Anchor Chart Posters.Contents8 - 8.5x11 Elements of Music Posters (Music Terms)Tempo - The Speed of the BeatDynamics - How Loud and SoftHarmony - The ChordsTimbre - Tone ColorForm - The Sequence of EventsMelody - What We Sing in Sing-AlongsRhythm - The Length of NotesTexture - How Parts Work TogetherBest quality, borderless printing is recommended fo
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3rd - 6th
Rhythm Basics - A Workbook and Teaching Tool for Beginning Orchestra
This is a 12 page workbook that teaches music students the basics of beat and rhythm. Group class activities and worksheets are included. Students learn eighth notes, quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, corresponding rests (except eighth rests) and time signatures. This workbook helps students develop a great start to counting and rhythm reading.
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4th - 7th
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Face Time With Composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
If you are looking for a new, fresh, and fun way to introduce composers to your students, look no further! FaceTime with Composers offers your students a humorous, factual, and fun way to get to know famous composers. After watching this goofy and informative video, your students won't forget the composer they just learned about!
For a downloadable version of this video, please send an email request to: chrisedwards1112@gmail.com
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PreK - 12th
Adapted Recorder Songs to Supplement Recorder Karate
This packet of adapted music songs can support all students who need to learn the recorder but may not have the intellectual or physical ability to do so. You will find songs from familiar recorder method books but adapted with graphic notation. This packet is a supplement to Recorder Karate, a method by Barb Philipak from Plank Road Publishing. Her approach to learning an instrument motivates students to practice and learn recorder music in order to earn karate belts that decorate their recorde
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: A Bundle of Adapted Music Lessons
Interactive Virtual Musical Fieldtrip for John Williams' Film Score
Welcome, wizards & muggles! These slides take students through John Williams’ film score “The Sorcerer’s Stone” (all rights belong to original artists and to be used solely for educational purposes!) and the melodic motif for various characters as well as thematic music. Included: 1. Infor on John Williams 2. Themed bitmoji classroom (Editable to add your own Bitmoji)3. 7 Melodic motifs with embedded listening tracks & music notation examples.4. Review with listening tracks5. Optional a
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5th - 12th
"A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald | Jazz Song for Voice & Orff
This childhood nursery rhyme came to life when Ella Fitzgerald sang it in 1938 and this unit keeps the song bursting with life! In these Google Slides, you will find:Information on the song & jazz singer Ella FitzgeraldInformation on jazzMusic with standard notation using half notes, quarter notes, & quarter restsSolfege Orff/BoomwhackersHand drumGuiroClappingXylophones or MetallophonesSong lyricsRead Aloud (link to YouTube Video - rights belong to original artists)Game (Lyric inspired
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: Year Long Music Lessons & Curriculum for 1st Grade | 30% off
8 WEEK General Music Unit BUNDLE 6-12th Grade!!!!!! #3
This amazing bundle Comes with 8 FULL WEEKS of material!! Each week comes with 5 days worth of lessons! These lessons are chock full of eye-catching presentations, handouts, assessments, review activities, higher order thinking scenarios, videos, pictures, answer keys and so much more! This is the perfect bundle to re-energize your music classroom with relevant and engaging topics! This is the third 8 week bundle I have released! The 8 units you will receive in this bundle will include:Complete
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6th - 12th
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Face Time With Composers: Johann Sebastian Bach
If you are looking for a new, fresh, and fun way to introduce composers to your students, look no further! FaceTime with Composers offers your students a humorous, factual, and fun way to get to know famous composers. After watching this goofy and informative video, your students won't forget the composer they just learned about!
For a downloadable version of this video, please send an email request to: chrisedwards1112@gmail.com
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K - 11th
Instrumentation Unit -- Elementary General Music Curriculum
This curriculum introduces students to different kinds of instrumentation and where they are used. Includes a transition lesson from the Form Unit. Covers symphonic band, orchestra, jazz band, unpitched percussion, and traditional Chinese instruments. Includes a final project using BandLab to assess students' understanding.
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4th - 5th
Disney's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Paul Dukas Digital Listening Unit
Use these fun & editable Google Slides when teaching Paul Dukas' music, Goethe's poem (modified as the original is in German), and Disney's animated "Fantasia." This is easily used during a hybrid or Distance Learning setting as it is fully equipped with embedded YouTube videos, audio suggestions, printables, & more! Students will be able to engage in this contemporary masterpiece by:listening to and/or reading Goethe's poemlearning about the composer & authorread & watch Disney
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PreK - 6th
Also included in: Classical & Romantic Music Listening Units | Growing Bundle (20% off!)
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