Young scholars study engineering design.  In this engineering music lesson students plan and construct a design while working in groups. 

In this excellent music and history lesson, 1st graders watch movies and listen to music sung by Elvis Presley, then draw and write as if they were a famous singer. This entertaining and inventive lesson has a terrific assessment...

Enable young scholars to use the blues to explore urbanization, technology, and their effects on everyday life in the 20th century. Musicians were among the large number of people who, between 1914 and 1945, participated in the Great...

In this music/feelings worksheet, students draw pictures in circles to show the feelings labeled above each. A picture of a child singing and the sentence "We sing songs to God to tell him how we feel."

Young scholars gain an understanding of early jazz. They study Dixieland and the Roaring Twenties. They examine the American historical significance and cultural implications of early jazz.

Students examine jazz's roots and their hybridization in New Orleans in the early 20th century. They listen to ragtime and jazz recordings, then complete worksheets imbedded in this plan.

Students are introduced to several forms of indigenous European music. Students become familiar with instruments, musical and forms and styles from Spain, Sardinia, Austria and Switzerland. Students recreate selected rhythms and styles.

Students investigate a variety of sites to gather relevant information for a presentation about African American musical forms in this general Music lesson for middle school and high school. Resource links are provided to aid instruction.

Third graders demonstrate effective use of a Venn Diagram Graphic Organizer by comparing and contrasting music and dance. They discover how different cultures around the world celebrate with music and dance.

Students explore their feelings about rain through art, music, and poetry. They listen to music as they think about rain and determine how they feel about rain. Students create either poetry or artwork about as they listen to music...

In this music worksheet, learners identify and describe various famous dances and music of the Caribbean. They respond to questions about each of the three types described in the activity.

Here is a great spin on the classic game, Musical Chairs! Instead of fighting to get the last chair when the music stops, learners will need to read a CVC word to stay in the game. They walk around, whoever is near the word bucket when...

Students use the Cajuns and their music to engage an interest in and study French. They examine the Cajuns, their customs, work, leisure time, food, and how their music unites them as an ethnic group, with emphasis on the family.

Students play the letters provided in the format "Keyboard/Xylophone/Tone Bells" with the intention of using the "Music Only" format as skills progress. They study fingerings and chords when appropriate to skills.

In this music notes worksheet, students come up with as many words possible using only the letters in the musical alphabet. Students then turn the letters into code by writing the words in music notes on the staff above the word.

In this music note activity learning exercise, students identify the music notes and add them together to complete the music note equations. Students complete 30 problems.

Learners read Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. In groups, they "perform" Act 3, Scenes 1-3 by "striking a pose" that best depicts the characters in that scene and by bringing in music that would best accompany the scene.

In this naming musical notes worksheet, learners analyze the five letter names of music notes on a treble clef staff. Students choose a different color to make each note. Using this color key, learners color the notes on 4 treble clef...

In this musical notes worksheet, students analyze the names of the five notes shown on a bass clef staff. Students color each of the five notes a different color. In each of 4 lines of music, students identify the name of ten notes and...

Students listen and explore how African-American culture relates to learning Spanish as a foreign language. Poetry, music, and history are utilized while learning about Langston Hughes and Nicolas Guillen.

First graders experience the growing process of a seed becoming a flower as it is exposed to the sun, rain, wind, day and night, and -tickling- bees as they move creatively to music.

In this music listening drill activity, students listen carefully and read the sheet music to determine whether the instructor played measure a or b.

In this music listening drill worksheet, students listen carefully and read the sheet music to determine whether the instructor played measure a or b.

In this music listening drill worksheet, students listen carefully and read the sheet music to determine whether the instructor played measure a or b.