Here are three ideas for games you can use in your next general music lesson plan to help encourage knowlege of the Instruments of the Orchestra. This game is especially designed for teachers without any musical knowledge and can be used in small groups or for a whole class activity. While I was researching this
Here are some tips for your next middle school music lesson plan which should help you to make your next music theory lesson FUN. As usual, let me know your sucess stories and feel free to provide extra materials, ideas and comments of your own using the comments section below. Tip #1 - "Musical Sums" and
Why not create your own "musical item" in your next music class? I found inspiration from this clip called "Food Court Musical" Just a bit of fun, but why not use it with your classes to get them inspired to compose their own "If Life was a Musical" sketch!
Here are 3 tips for teaching some Basic Music Symbols that you could use in an Elementary Music Lesson Plan. Feel free to use as many or as little as you like and if you would like to add some feedback or extra ideas please feel free to leave a comment. Hope you find them
Today I have a question for you! What is the format that you use or that you would expect from a music lesson plan for high school? I started thinking about this and then thought... Why don't I ask everyone on this page, and everyone can leave comments on their practice and experience in this
Here's a little music game that really works well with small groups of preschoolers to elementary school children. The game is called "Notes to Riches" and it is what it sounds like - MONEY! All you need is some $1 bills play money - go and raid your old monopoly set or make some with
It's easy to find out there are 88 keys on a standard piano, and of those 88 keys you have 36 black keys and 52 white, but how do you get your students to remember and more importantly - how do you make it fun? Here are some ideas - Hope you find them useful Idea 1:
Music Trivia If you're like me then you love to find out new and interesting music trivia and facts that will make people sit up and listen - it may be a group of students or even at your next dinner party making general conversation. The fact is it doesn't matter what you use it
Just a quick one today - to let you know about my Husbands website - www.ktpercussion.com Kevin is a really established percussion teacher, and has done heaps of work composing works for percussion that really work in a school situation. One of the things that he has successfully done over the years is create ensembles
I've had many challenges as a music teacher ! Getting students to practice was one of my main ones - I found that if students didn't practice then they eventually quit lessons. Attracting enough students when my husband and I started in our full time commercial music school was another! Another Challenge I see with