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Beat Blocks for Meter and Beat

Building Musical Minds Using Manipulatives

Abigail Blair
Teaching Resource

By using Beat Blocks manipulatives to represent meter, beat, melody, harmony, and dynamics, your students will lay the foundation of their musical learning with core lessons. But true mastery is only demonstrated when we create something new with our skills and knowledge. Your students will do just that as they build their musical minds and strengthen their understanding of the elements and intricacies of music.

By using Beat Blocks manipulatives to represent meter, beat, melody, harmony, and dynamics, your students will lay the foundation of their musical learning with core lessons. But true mastery is only demonstrated when we create something new with our skills and knowledge. Your students will do just that as they build their musical minds and strengthen their understanding of the elements and intricacies of music.

Reproducible Rhythm Readiness

Activity Pages to Reinforce Rhythm and Pitch Notation

Erika Popp
Book,Reproducible
Grades 2–6 • Reinforce rhythmic skills with these reproducible activity pages. Each one gives a brief review of a concept, then assesses a student’s understanding with a pencil-and-paper activity. Young musicians will practice drawing rhythms, creating rhythmic patterns, using time signatures, and creating their own rhythmic compositions. Use them for quick assessments or rhythm practice, and save yourself valuable planning time!
Grades 2–6 • Reinforce rhythmic skills with these reproducible activity pages. Each one gives a brief review of a concept, then assesses a student’s understanding with a pencil-and-paper activity. Young musicians will practice drawing rhythms, creating rhythmic patterns, using time signatures, and creating their own rhythmic compositions. Use them for quick assessments or rhythm practice, and save yourself valuable planning time!

Elementary Music Games

20 Reproducible Activities with Rhythm, Note Names, Instruments, and More

Vanessa Christian
Book,Reproducible
Grades 3–6 • Whenever you need a quick activity, you can reach for this fun resource. With these music game pages, students will practice rhythms, note names, dynamics, music vocabulary, and more. You can use them as educational time-fillers or substitute plans to reinforce a concept you've covered in class.
Grades 3–6 • Whenever you need a quick activity, you can reach for this fun resource. With these music game pages, students will practice rhythms, note names, dynamics, music vocabulary, and more. You can use them as educational time-fillers or substitute plans to reinforce a concept you've covered in class.

Games, Groups, and Gems

Songs and Activities for Grades K-6

Chris Judah-Lauder
Book

Grades K–6 • These activities will have your students moving, singing, playing, and learning! Strengthen teacher-student and student-teacher relationships, encourage active participation, and cultivate excitement for learning by teaching through games and groups with this collection of absolute gems from master teacher Chris Judah-Lauder. Students learn music skills as well as life skills through giving and receiving feedback and working in collaboration with their classmates to create their own ensemble pieces. PowerPoint presentations and reproducibles are included as digital downloads to save you valuable planning time.

Grades K–6 • These activities will have your students moving, singing, playing, and learning! Strengthen teacher-student and student-teacher relationships, encourage active participation, and cultivate excitement for learning by teaching through games and groups with this collection of absolute gems from master teacher Chris Judah-Lauder. Students learn music skills as well as life skills through giving and receiving feedback and working in collaboration with their classmates to create their own ensemble pieces. PowerPoint presentations and reproducibles are included as digital downloads to save you valuable planning time.

Brain Breaks

Just-for-fun music activities for tired brains

Mark Burrows
Book,Reproducible
Grades 3–6 • Give it a rest, with this entertaining book of reproducible activities to rejuvenate tired brains. There is music in every page, but it's presented in an amusing way that engages students without adding to test anxiety and academic fatigue. Teachers and students will laugh together at the clever jokes, and their rested brains will be ready to tackle learning again after enjoying a much-needed brain break.
Grades 3–6 • Give it a rest, with this entertaining book of reproducible activities to rejuvenate tired brains. There is music in every page, but it's presented in an amusing way that engages students without adding to test anxiety and academic fatigue. Teachers and students will laugh together at the clever jokes, and their rested brains will be ready to tackle learning again after enjoying a much-needed brain break.

Adventures with the Orchestra

A complete instructional unit to bring the orchestra to your students

Artie Almeida
Book
Grades 3–6 • Inspire your students to embrace the music of the orchestra. Everything you need for a complete instructional unit is here: flashcards, printable game pieces, guided listening activities, musical examples, website lessons, and more! Artie Almeida is a gifted teacher with many years of experience guiding elementary students and young teachers, and her skills in both areas make this the quintessential resource for teaching about the orchestra.
Grades 3–6 • Inspire your students to embrace the music of the orchestra. Everything you need for a complete instructional unit is here: flashcards, printable game pieces, guided listening activities, musical examples, website lessons, and more! Artie Almeida is a gifted teacher with many years of experience guiding elementary students and young teachers, and her skills in both areas make this the quintessential resource for teaching about the orchestra.

Games Galore

Reproducible Music Activity Sheets

Various
Book,Reproducible
Grades K–6 • Reinforcing music skills is a breeze with these reproducible pages. Use them with your substitute lessons plans, as an activity for your students while you rehearse with a small group, or even with the whole class. Each page is a quick, fun activity involving note names, rhythms, music vocabulary words, or instruments.
Grades K–6 • Reinforcing music skills is a breeze with these reproducible pages. Use them with your substitute lessons plans, as an activity for your students while you rehearse with a small group, or even with the whole class. Each page is a quick, fun activity involving note names, rhythms, music vocabulary words, or instruments.

A Year of Music Memories

Portfolio Worksheets

Julie Thompson
Reproducible
Grades 4–6 • Designed to be completed throughout the school year, this collection of whimsical yet sophisticated worksheets is perfect for creating student keepsake journals. Keeping music-learning as the focus, these reproducible worksheets will appeal to students on a personal level while also encouraging them to write. Activities that cover state and national standards have never been so much fun!
Grades 4–6 • Designed to be completed throughout the school year, this collection of whimsical yet sophisticated worksheets is perfect for creating student keepsake journals. Keeping music-learning as the focus, these reproducible worksheets will appeal to students on a personal level while also encouraging them to write. Activities that cover state and national standards have never been so much fun!
Color By Music

Color By Music

A Collection of Colorful Classroom Music Activities

D Brian Weese
Book,Reproducible
Grades K–6 • This colorful collection of reproducible worksheets will keep students engaged as their answers make images appear on the page. Each puzzle has an easier and more challenging version, and they cover a wide range of topics, from rhythm to note reading to recorder fingerings. Teachers and substitutes alike will value this versatile resource.
Grades K–6 • This colorful collection of reproducible worksheets will keep students engaged as their answers make images appear on the page. Each puzzle has an easier and more challenging version, and they cover a wide range of topics, from rhythm to note reading to recorder fingerings. Teachers and substitutes alike will value this versatile resource.

Mysterious Mazes

18 Reproducible Music Worksheets

D Brian Weese
Book,Reproducible
Grades 2-6 • Are your students lost? Have them navigate these entertaining and challenging reproducible puzzles to strengthen their knowledge! Students will wind their way through composer timelines, twist and turn along the route to rhythm skills, blaze a trail through instrument families, and much more! It’s simply a-maze-ing!
Grades 2-6 • Are your students lost? Have them navigate these entertaining and challenging reproducible puzzles to strengthen their knowledge! Students will wind their way through composer timelines, twist and turn along the route to rhythm skills, blaze a trail through instrument families, and much more! It’s simply a-maze-ing!

Music Fun for the Little Ones

24 Reproducible Worksheets

Jeanette Morgan
Reproducible,Games
Grades PreK-2 • This collection addresses the challenge of finding relevant and appropriate worksheets for younger music students. It has a variety of activities, including crisscross puzzles, hidden codes, and word searches. Review note names, instrument families, musical styles, composers, dynamics, and more with these fun activities. Perfect for substitute plans!
Grades PreK-2 • This collection addresses the challenge of finding relevant and appropriate worksheets for younger music students. It has a variety of activities, including crisscross puzzles, hidden codes, and word searches. Review note names, instrument families, musical styles, composers, dynamics, and more with these fun activities. Perfect for substitute plans!

More Music Libs

Improvisational Stories (preposition) Music

Dianne Campbell
Reproducible
Grades 4-6 • Even more giggles and guffaws are in store when your students encounter these twenty-one stories set in fun musical scenarios. When completed with parts of speech and music terminology, these flexible activities are perfect for those few extra minutes of class or as a staple in your sub tub, and they’re sure to keep your students on the edge of their (adjective) (plural noun)!
Grades 4-6 • Even more giggles and guffaws are in store when your students encounter these twenty-one stories set in fun musical scenarios. When completed with parts of speech and music terminology, these flexible activities are perfect for those few extra minutes of class or as a staple in your sub tub, and they’re sure to keep your students on the edge of their (adjective) (plural noun)!

Elemental Fun

Games to Assess Music Skills

Jeanette Morgan
Games,Reproducible
Grades 4-6 • Simple, basic, fun--teaching the elements of music can be all of these things! Listening activities and worksheets work together to build your students' knowledge. It is a perfect solution for center work, portfolios, assessments, and substitute plans.
Grades 4-6 • Simple, basic, fun--teaching the elements of music can be all of these things! Listening activities and worksheets work together to build your students' knowledge. It is a perfect solution for center work, portfolios, assessments, and substitute plans.

More Music Fundamentals

21 Games that Reinforce Music Concepts

D Brian Weese
Games,Reproducible
Grades 2-6 • This collection of reproducible worksheets will challenge your students while providing you with valuable assessment pieces. Music concepts include writing rhythms based on syllables; matching melodic contours; identifying basic rhythmic notation, pitch notation, and music symbols; working with repeat signs, first and second endings, and da capo and dal segno symbols; and identifying time signatures.
Grades 2-6 • This collection of reproducible worksheets will challenge your students while providing you with valuable assessment pieces. Music concepts include writing rhythms based on syllables; matching melodic contours; identifying basic rhythmic notation, pitch notation, and music symbols; working with repeat signs, first and second endings, and da capo and dal segno symbols; and identifying time signatures.
Music Madness!

Music Madness!

Totally Terrific Interactive Games

Artie Almeida
Interactive Software
Artie is excited to bring you this collection of games for use with tablets, interactive boards, and student computers. Your students will love the incredible graphics, engaging animation, and fast-paced competition, while clearly stated learning goals, leveled play, and individual and team options will provide you with countless ways to use this web-based software in your music classroom and beyond. Requires internet connectivity.
Artie is excited to bring you this collection of games for use with tablets, interactive boards, and student computers. Your students will love the incredible graphics, engaging animation, and fast-paced competition, while clearly stated learning goals, leveled play, and individual and team options will provide you with countless ways to use this web-based software in your music classroom and beyond. Requires internet connectivity.
Grades 2-6 • The step-by-step, reproducible worksheets in this resource will guide your students to turn poems into songs. As your students work to compose pleasant and singable melodies, duets, and arrangements, they will also learn to count intervals, create chords, and explore expressive techniques.
Grades 2-6 • The step-by-step, reproducible worksheets in this resource will guide your students to turn poems into songs. As your students work to compose pleasant and singable melodies, duets, and arrangements, they will also learn to count intervals, create chords, and explore expressive techniques.

Games with Get Up and Go

Ten Action-Packed Assessment Activities

Jeanette Morgan
Games,Data CD,Reproducible
Grades K–6 • Can you hear your students groaning at just the thought of taking a test in the music room? Thankfully, this collection of ten engaging games and activities will let you easily gauge who knows what in a fun and fast way that keeps students so engaged that they won't even know they're being assessed. Activities include musical skills from reading notation and simple melodic dictation to playing the recorder and more. Templates, projection pages, and manipulatives on the included CD make it easy for you to start using these activities right away in your classroom.
Grades K–6 • Can you hear your students groaning at just the thought of taking a test in the music room? Thankfully, this collection of ten engaging games and activities will let you easily gauge who knows what in a fun and fast way that keeps students so engaged that they won't even know they're being assessed. Activities include musical skills from reading notation and simple melodic dictation to playing the recorder and more. Templates, projection pages, and manipulatives on the included CD make it easy for you to start using these activities right away in your classroom.

Pleased to Meet You

Biographies and Games about Composers

Jenny VanPelt
Games,Reproducible
Grades 2–6 • Say hello to the perfect way to kick-off a composer unit, fill your sub tub, or create monthly home-school connections! Inspired by Activate!, this resource provides you and your students with in-depth information about fourteen famous composers from Bach to Bernstein. Informational text designed for younger students and biographies for your older students are provided for each of the featured musicians, along with reproducible games for each age group. Every biography also includes suggested websites--the perfect way to extend the lessons and put off saying goodbye to these new friends.
Grades 2–6 • Say hello to the perfect way to kick-off a composer unit, fill your sub tub, or create monthly home-school connections! Inspired by Activate!, this resource provides you and your students with in-depth information about fourteen famous composers from Bach to Bernstein. Informational text designed for younger students and biographies for your older students are provided for each of the featured musicians, along with reproducible games for each age group. Every biography also includes suggested websites--the perfect way to extend the lessons and put off saying goodbye to these new friends.
A Wide World of WebVisits 2012

A Wide World of WebVisits 2012

Online Excursions for the Music Classroom

Edited by Jeanette Morgan
Workbook,Reproducible
Grades K-6 • Take advantage of all of the resources that the internet has to offer with our newest collection of WebVisits. Based on existing websites, these lessons are designed to enhance and energize your general music classroom experiences. As in the first volume (30/2574H), you'll find topics ranging from explorations of great operatic performances, performance halls, and the lives of composers and performers to comparisons of instruments from around the world, all complete with detailed steps for you and reproducible student worksheets. Stop spending hours surfing for ways to incorporate technology into your classroom and catch the wave with A Wide World of WebVisits 2012.
Grades K-6 • Take advantage of all of the resources that the internet has to offer with our newest collection of WebVisits. Based on existing websites, these lessons are designed to enhance and energize your general music classroom experiences. As in the first volume (30/2574H), you'll find topics ranging from explorations of great operatic performances, performance halls, and the lives of composers and performers to comparisons of instruments from around the world, all complete with detailed steps for you and reproducible student worksheets. Stop spending hours surfing for ways to incorporate technology into your classroom and catch the wave with A Wide World of WebVisits 2012.

Nothing but Notespellers

17 Reproducible Games to Reinforce Note Reading

D Brian Weese
Games,Reproducible
Grades 2-6 • Your younger students will enjoy the mazes and color-by-pitch worksheets in this book, and you can challenge your upper elementary students to name ledger line and bass clef notes as well as match pitches displaced across an octave. With extra content ranging from profiles of famous composers to tips on aural skills development, the learning opportunities extend far beyond the staff.
Grades 2-6 • Your younger students will enjoy the mazes and color-by-pitch worksheets in this book, and you can challenge your upper elementary students to name ledger line and bass clef notes as well as match pitches displaced across an octave. With extra content ranging from profiles of famous composers to tips on aural skills development, the learning opportunities extend far beyond the staff.
Get to the Point!

Get to the Point!

A Collection of Pointing Pages and Powerful Plans

Artie Almeida, Katie Grace Miller
Lessons,Data CD,Reproducible
Grades K-3 • Playing meets pedagogy in this collection of powerfully productive lesson plans, precision-crafted by Artie Almeida and Katie Grace Miller. Using the manipulatives that are at the core of this resource, your students will point their way to an understanding of numerous music concepts.
Grades K-3 • Playing meets pedagogy in this collection of powerfully productive lesson plans, precision-crafted by Artie Almeida and Katie Grace Miller. Using the manipulatives that are at the core of this resource, your students will point their way to an understanding of numerous music concepts.

Moja, Mbili, Tatu

Songs and Games from Kenya

Mark Burrows
Two-part
Two-part

Grades K–5 • Join composer and educator Mark Burrows in this heartwarming collection of songs, activities, and lessons from his journeys to Miathene Synod, Kenya. Refresh your teaching with his vivid accounts of working at the music academy that he helped to establish. This resource will leave you with a renewed hope that the world will be a better place for future generations and the satisfaction of knowing that proceeds from your purchase will help to fund the academy’s continued operations.
Two-part

Grades K–5 • Join composer and educator Mark Burrows in this heartwarming collection of songs, activities, and lessons from his journeys to Miathene Synod, Kenya. Refresh your teaching with his vivid accounts of working at the music academy that he helped to establish. This resource will leave you with a renewed hope that the world will be a better place for future generations and the satisfaction of knowing that proceeds from your purchase will help to fund the academy’s continued operations.

Music Libs

Improvisational Stories (preposition) Music

Dianne Campbell
Games,Reproducible
Grades 4–6 • Here's a creative way to bring the fun of the classic grammar game Mad Libs™ into your music classroom. Dianne Campbell created twenty-one improvisational stories about music that are sure to have your students laughing out loud while they review basic parts of speech and music vocabulary. Complete a story while you are waiting for the classroom teacher to pick up the students, or REPRODUCE and set out a stack for your students to enjoy while the rest of the class is finishing their work. Grab your (plural noun) and (plural noun) and get ready for some fun!
Grades 4–6 • Here's a creative way to bring the fun of the classic grammar game Mad Libs™ into your music classroom. Dianne Campbell created twenty-one improvisational stories about music that are sure to have your students laughing out loud while they review basic parts of speech and music vocabulary. Complete a story while you are waiting for the classroom teacher to pick up the students, or REPRODUCE and set out a stack for your students to enjoy while the rest of the class is finishing their work. Grab your (plural noun) and (plural noun) and get ready for some fun!
Double Agents

Double Agents

Music Games Disguising Core Curriculum

Nicole LeGrand
Games,Reproducible
Grades K–6 • Up-and-coming writer and educator Nicole LeGrand combines her experience as a classroom teacher with her current role as a music education instructor in this unique collection of reproducible worksheets specifically created to integrate core-curriculum standards in the music classroom. These worksheets are designed for students in kindergarten through sixth grade and do double duty as they address math, science, language arts, and social studies along with music concepts such as form, instrument recognition, multi-cultural and historical instruments, expression terms, intervals, and pitch and rhythm identification. Finding ways to connect music to core-content standards couldn't be easier!
Grades K–6 • Up-and-coming writer and educator Nicole LeGrand combines her experience as a classroom teacher with her current role as a music education instructor in this unique collection of reproducible worksheets specifically created to integrate core-curriculum standards in the music classroom. These worksheets are designed for students in kindergarten through sixth grade and do double duty as they address math, science, language arts, and social studies along with music concepts such as form, instrument recognition, multi-cultural and historical instruments, expression terms, intervals, and pitch and rhythm identification. Finding ways to connect music to core-content standards couldn't be easier!