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Music composition unit plans $5-10
Journey to “The Planets” by Gustav Holst - Music Virtual Field Trip
Take your 2nd through 4th Grade students on a journey to outer space by introducing them to an engaging unit all about Gustav Holst’s Orchestral Suite, “The Planets”! With the included rhythmic, movement and exploratory activities, students will experience and connect with Holst’s orchestral suite in a whole new way while exploring and applying known musical concepts.The included lessons and activities were designed to be used in a Teacher-led, Synchronous Learning Environment. What’s included?G
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Music Virtual Field Trips Bundle
Music Composition Project
Do you struggle to incorporate composing into your music classroom? Then this Music Composition Project is perfect for you and your students! This unit uses a step-by-step approach to the composition process. Students will begin with the simple step of drawing a treble clef and end with a performance of the piece they composed! Grab this resource and so much MORE for your classroom in the Elementary Music Starter Bundle! Includes resources for the entire year! Below you'll find a list of all the
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4th - 6th
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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 are not only a fun outlet for students, but can be great examples of music, music technology, orchestral instruments and the evolution of music through time. In this unit, students will get an opportunity to study video game scores of popular games from all the way back in the 80s to modern games! This unit comes with a guide, a crossword covering all of
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4th - 12th
Also included in: 8 WEEK General Music BUNDLE 6-12th Grade!!! #2
Music Unit Treble Staff Practice for Piano and Xylophone BUNDLE
I created this treble staff reading, writing, playing, and composing unit as a way to teach note reading skills to my elementary piano lab students as well as to my general elementary music students on barred instruments.This unit focuses on note reading and writing skills for all notes on the treble staff as well as playing in C position (right hand) on the piano or xylophone.After students are comfortable reading, writing, and playing in C position, they will then complete one of two compositi
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2nd - 4th
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Careers in Music Unit!
This engaging unit is a perfect way to provide real-world applications to the music classroom. This unit will teach your students loads of information about various music careers including video examples, pictures, salaries, lifestyles and more. This a great unit to get your students excited about music and its place in the real world and how many different and creative jobs are created through music! This unit includes four 50-minute presentations, a jeopardy review game, an assessment and answ
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5th - 12th
Also included in: Music Careers Projects-10 WEEK Bundle!!
Composer John Williams Listening Unit | Virtual Learning Friendly
This composer unit on John Williams makes for a great tie in to Film Scores & movie soundtracks, sub plans, or for virtual learning environments!These editable Google Slides include:BiographyTimelineJaws - Information, video/audio, & Color by NoteStar Wars -Info, video/audio, & Color by NoteSuperman - Info, video/audio, & Superhero YogaIndiana Jones - Info, video/audio, Map activityE.T. - Info, video/audio, Listening GlyphJurassic Park - Info, video/audio, Listening GlyphHarry Po
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1st - 10th
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Also included in: Year Long Music Lessons & Curriculum for 3rd Grade | 30% off
Movie Music Unit: Listening, Analysis, & Composition
This is a captivating, hands-on unit on Music in Film! Comprising of three sections: listening, analysis, and composition, students get to explore the purpose of movie music and how it makes movies come to life! Note: There is an embedded slideshow link, a fillable PDF of the Movie Music Analysis Packet, and printable PDFs for everything. Due to copyright reasons, I do not provide editable Google Slides. INCLUDES:-Slideshow of Movie Music Unit: begins with a short synopsis on John Williams and h
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: MUSIC PBL BUNDLE: 5 Large Units!
GarageBand Song Writing Unit
In this unit, students will gain a basic understanding of chordal song structure, and use that knowledge to create music using the GarageBand app. Students will need access to iPads for this unit, but can easily work in groups of 4-5 students per one iPad.
As this is also an "Introduction" to GarageBand, students will primarily work with Smart Instruments during this unit. It could work with students who have limited musical knowledge. I personally teach this with my 8th grade general musi
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6th - 12th
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The Cup Song: Teaching Rhythm, Composition & Performance using Bloom's Taxonomy
This is a unit that is guaranteed to catch your music student's attention! Students (especially middle school) LOVE the Cup Game! So why not use it to teach them so much more?
This is a 19 page PDF download that includes:
1. Table of contents.
2. Five day (or more) suggested lesson guide with direct progression through Bloom's Taxonomy.
3. Reproducible handouts at 2 music reading levels so your students can analyze and dictate the rhythms they are using (Music reading Level 1 avoids the use
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3rd - 9th
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Music Rhythm Composition Student Worksheets- Unit 1 Bundle
This is Unit 1 in a series. To view Unit 2, CLICK HERE. This collection of 11 different worksheets are PERFECT for walking beginners sequentially through the process of composing rhythm by having them complete partially completed measures. Instead of free-hand composing which inevitably leads to a complete page of whole and half notes (the too-easy road), partially completed measures encourage higher-level thinking by forcing students to use all of the different rhythm types every day. Every new
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4th - 12th
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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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Composing with Body Percussion: Improve Beat, Rhythm, and Ensemble Skills!
Explore COMPOSITION, RHYTHM, and TEXTURE with this fun unit—no instruments needed!!Motivate your students to LISTEN, and to improve their sense of BEAT and RHYTHM, in an enjoyable and motivating way. They will use simple rhythms to compose an exciting original piece of ensemble music, collaborating in the creation and performance of their compositions!This series of four/five lessons is aimed at Grades 3-6, with possible adaptation and extension for older grades. Read more about it here.This dow
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3rd - 8th
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*MUSIC* Body Percussion Unit *12 Lessons*
Are you not musically trained? This is a perfect unit for YOU - you can incorporate rhythm, reading and songs with confidence using this Body Percussion Unit. This package provides you with printables, lesson plans, learning goals and and instruction. There are notes on how to assess students and how to engage students in a primary music classroom. Say goodbye to your fears of teaching music and learn how to teach Body Percussion! -11 lessons + Unit/Assessment Review -Music Suggestions, Book Sug
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K - 3rd
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STOMP Composition Project
General music teachers, have you ever had your students watch "STOMP" and thought about incorporating it into your curriculum?
Here is a composition project that teaches form (call & response), the creative process (composition & revision), and has students perform their own creative work. You can use standard notation or just write out the words to represent what you are doing, and students will learn rhythm without even realizing it.
In this project, students watch STOMP's "Just Cl
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4th - 7th
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OPERA MUSIC UNIT BOOKLET
OPERA MUSICDesigned for middle school - high school students, this product contains a student workbook complete with listening examples.The student workbook explores the types of opera music, types of opera singers, components and characteristics of opera and includes orchestral instrument/vocalist reviews, stories of famous composers listening games, listening analysis, listening comparison analysis charts, theme arrangement task, listening glyphs, short story task, scaffolded music composition
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
Theory and Composition Unit with Project for Middle School
Used with my upper middle school students, this unit teaches basic music theory including all the steps necessary for major scale construction and I,IV, V chord construction.
Once you've walked your class through these basics put their knowledge to work as they follow my step-by-step guide for writing their first song with a melody line and I, IV, V chords in the bass line as accompaniment. (We use the free version of Finale Notepad for composition but you can use whatever program you have ava
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7th - 12th
Beginner Music Theory Unit!
This unit is perfect for your beginning musicians who are beginning to learn the basics of music theory. This unit will cover the foundations of how to read music and will equip your students with the ability to accurately read beginner level music. This unit includes a fun review escape game! This unit will include website resources, google slide presentations, practice exercises, review opportunities and a final assessment.
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4th - 12th
Also included in: 8 WEEK General Music BUNDLE 6-12th Grade!!! #2
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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Electronic Music Unit
This unit is an excellent opportunity to teach your students all about the rich, musical genre of electronic music. This interactive unit covers what electronic music is, the various styles of electronic music, the processes of making electronic music, different electronic instruments and more! This unit is full of student involvements, higher order thinking, video examples, opportunities for review and more!This unit includes four 50-minute presentations, worksheets, review questions, an assess
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: 8 WEEK General Music Unit BUNDLE 6-12th Grade!!!!!! #1
"Carnival of the Animals" by Camille Saint-Saens | Google Slides Listening Unit
Studying French composer Camille Saint-Saens' programmatic piece "Carnival of the Animals" is not only fun, but educational! Each movement has kid-safe videos, information on instruments, as well as activities such as color by notes, rhythm activities, and/or listening maps. These editable Google Slides include a full unit for elementary music classes with:Composer BioEmbedded Read AloudEmbedded Video with sheet music Table of Contents15 Movements with videos & instrument pictures for refere
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K - 5th
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Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons (Music Makerspace Series)
Explore the steady beat with unpitched percussion instruments as your students sing, play, and create with everyone's favorite groovy cat! Your purchase includes: A teaching guide with several options for making, creating, and understanding music, including: a literature + instrument activity, steady beat composition project for the whole class or small groups, and a game that your students will love to play! Visuals for the activities with an embedded audio file of the piano accompaniment. Comp
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K - 3rd
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Rap Music Unit
A 10 week unit for students in years 5 and 6 based around the concept of Rap. The unit looks at technical aspects of music composition including rhythm notation and arrangements based on different musical elements. It also includes activities on the history of rap and hip hop culture, and links to Indigenous Australian poetry. It uses links on the Arts Live website which requires an account (this is free if you are in Australia). Students work towards developing their own raps about a topic that
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5th - 6th
Composing Melody - Unit 1 - BUNDLE (Melodic Composition)
Welcome to "Composing Melody - Unit 1"!This is the IDEAL beginning melodic composition guide for starting any basic composition course with your students. It also can be used before or after Basic Rhythm Composition Unit 1 or Writing Music Notation Unit 1.About 'Composing Melody - Unit 1':This 2 week long, 13-worksheet unit guides your students through the basics of learning notes on the piano keyboard to understanding how to form basic melodic musical phrases that are playable and singable.Walk
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6th - 12th
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LET'S BEATBOX! 7 lesson plans, task cards & worksheets for elementary music
Here are 7 lesson plans to explore the world of beatboxing with your students!All the materials are ready to be projected or printed and are easy to use!It can be left for a substitute teacher as detailed instructions are included, along with interactive resources.The documents are provided in colour and black and white, with different levels of difficulty, allowing for flexibility and differentiation.They can be used collectively on the board or in collaborative centers.Your students will have
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4th - 8th
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