There are a few activities you can do which will make music lesson plans about Brass instruments in the music class lots of fun. Make a rudimentary brass instrument. You will need plastic beverage bottles (e.g. two-liter soda bottles) and sharp scissors or utility knife. Cut the bottom off a plastic bottle. Try to get
This is an excerpt from our Printable Music Lesson Plans series on great composers. These are just a couple of the ideas found in the Lesson Plans. A couple of ideas for a lesson plan about Franz Joseph Haydn: Have the students Imagine that they are Prince Esterhazy looking for a new Kapellmeister for their
Here are a few of the resource sites that were part of the latest Music Education Twitter Chat which took place on the 9th March, 2010. The topic up for discussion was: "What are the best web 2.0 tools to integrate in the music classroom and how do they show their effectiveness?" These are a
Here are a few ideas you can include if creating a music lesson plan about Baroque composer G.F. Handel. These days Handel's keyboard music is most often performed on a piano. However, pianos were not around in Handel's day and the music was originally written for an instrument called a harpsichord. Do some research on
Want to share some Baroque Music with your music class? here are a few ideas for a music class based on J.S. Bach. This is just an excerpt of the materials found in our Great composers series of printable music lesson plans. Design a Facebook profile for J.S. Bach. Include “Basic Information” (Network, Birthday, Relationship
I tried something different with my beginners a while ago – ages 7 – 8yrs and they enjoyed it. I drew semibreves, minims, dotted minims, crothchets and crotchet rests on the board in random order. They had to walk forward a step and count 4 for the semibreve, 3 for dotted minim etc and no
Have the class watch a portion of a dvd about the group STOMP. Afterwards, the kids should form small groups and pick out unique objects from a box and create their own verison of STOMP. Near the end of class each group has to perform their creation in front of the class. It covers the
I have a game called the Maze Game. After I construct a maze on my classroom floor from music textbooks, the object is for one student to go through the maze blindfolded. Here is the fun part. Movement directions for the student are given through various instrumental tone colors such as sticks for right; triangle
Find some small round tokens, about the size of a large coin. On each token draw or print a combination of notes…i.e. 3 quarter notes, a whole note, a dotted half plus a whole…any combination up to a value of 10. Create approximately 50 tokens, with values from 1 count to 10 counts. To play
There are several other instruments which are related to the piano which are important for us to introduce to school students. They are the organ, celesta and harpsichord. Show and talk about the different aspects and characteristics of the keyboard instruments. The keyboard instruments are related to each other in that they are controlled by