Grades K-5 - Instead of telling your students what to do, why not manage your classroom with fun visual cues? Use these movement trigger cards, pose cards (for individual students), and paired and group formation cards as a cue to move students quickly. While specifically designed with music teachers in mind, these durable, coated cards can also work as a creative resource for classroom teachers.

Like This: Formation, Pose, and Movement Cue Cards

Arts & Photography

Jeanette Morgan

Music

Heritage Music Press

Grades 38 The "Five Facts" in the title of this engaging but simple game book are clues that are designed to reveal a music word or term. A few students might know the word after the first clue (Wynton Marsalis is a famous player of this instrument) or the second (An ancient form of this instrument is a bugle). By the fifth clue (I am the smallest member of the brass family), every hand should be in the air. Read a few puzzles aloud as a review at the end of class or adapt and use these facts to create visuals, reproducibles, or classroom materials. Numerous suggestions for multiple classroom uses are given, but no matter how you use these facts, students are sure to have fun! Topics include: instruments and families, musical styles, and classical and contemporary composer and performers.

Five-Fact Fun: A Quick Quiz Game for the Music Classroom

Kris Kropff

Humor & Entertainment

Grades 3-6 - Cross the curriculum bridge with these easy-to-use, multi-faceted lessons based around music websites and written by a team of master educators including Artie Almeida and Patricia Bourne. A perfect resource for music appreciation classes, these lessons will enable your students to explore everything from African music and rare instruments like Benjamin Franklin's glass armonica to world-class orchestras and arts organizations without ever stepping out of the classroom. From ten-minute "excursions" to full-blown units, you will surely find a "WebVisit" suited to your particular needs and curricular goals.

A Wide World of Webvisits: Online Excursions for the Music Classroom

Activate!: Rhythm: Syncopation and Complex Rhythms Grades K-6 December January 2017-18

Heritage Music Press, a Lorenz Company

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!

Music Fun for the Little Ones: 24 Reproducible Worksheets