Lessons for Middle School and/or Junior High

Resources designed especially to make junior high music lessons fun for students and easy for teachers!

Composition with GarageBand

Grades 6-9
Online training replay pass

Get forty complete lessons for GarageBand, including classroom videos and student assignment sheets.

Printable Music Lesson Plans

Printable Music Lesson Plans are lesson plans sets with worksheets and prepared power-point presentations on a variety of music related topics.

Printable Music Lesson Plans Module One
Instruments of the Orchestra

Everything you need for an entire module of work based around standard musical instruments

Printable Music Lesson Plans Module Two
The Great Composers

15 Lessons on selected composers from the Barque through to the 20th Century. Interesting trivia and modern activities keep students engaged throughout the topic and helps them learn essential musical knowledge and musicianship

Printable Music Lesson Plans Module Three
The History of Rock and Roll

15 Lessons starting with Bill Haley and Chuck Berry, and running through to the stars of Rock Music Today. This module gives an overview of the development of the Rock Style over the last 50 years.

Printable Music Lesson Plans Module Four
Great Artists of Jazz and Blues

Explore the development of Jazz with your students. From its humble beginnings with the Ragtime of Scott Joplin, through the Big Band and Swing Eras, through to Be-Bop and influences in Blues and Rock and Roll.

World Music Lesson Plans

Printable Music Lesson Plans Module Five
World Music

Suitable for upper elementary or junior high school, in this module of work your students will explore quite literally a world of different musical styles. Covers everything from African drumming through to to Indonesian gamelan and Japanese Taiko.

Worksheets for Classroom Music

Printable Music Theory Books Level One


A complete system for helping students learn the fundamentals of music theory. Covers everything in Grade One Theory from the examination boards around the world.

Printable Music Theory Books Level Two


Learn more than the fundamentals with this Level two theory course. Covers scales, the cycle of 5ths, Simple and Compound Time and transposition.

Printable Music Theory Books Level Three


The third level in this series covers major and minor keys, transposition and a comprehensive introduction to the study of harmony. Both Classical and Jazz styles are covered.

Printable Music Theory Books Level Four


The last installment in this series covers harmony (both traditional and jazz based) in detail, plus an introduction to scale modes, advanced rhythm concepts and counterpoint.

Music Theory Fun Sheets are fun worksheets that are a bit different from the normal ‘run of the mill’ worksheets you might find in typical junior high music lessons.

These worksheets cover topics such as note recognition, musical terms, symbol recognition, rhythmical understanding and aural skills.

 

Music Theory Fun Sheets Module One
Treasure Island Games

Twenty self checking worksheets using a unique map system for checking the answers. Great fun!

Music Theory Fun Sheets Module Two
Musical Symbol Code Breakers

Fun Ideas for helping students to familiarize themselves with the look and meaning of musical symbols.

Music Theory Fun Sheets Module Three
Musical Terms for the Digital Age

A new twist on an old topic – how to make learning musical terms fun!

Music Theory Fun Sheets Module Four
Musical Instrument Games

Your Students will become familiar with all types of musical instruments through these fun worksheets