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Music Lesson Plans - Grades 4-5
- Bullying Skit with Music
- Music - Piano Singing Game
- Found Music Unit, The Concert
- Found Music Unit, Polishing Brass
- Found Music Unit, Dress, Success!
- Found Music Unit, Composers
- Found Music Unit, Idea Challenge
- Musical Instrument Fortune Tellers
- Civil War Unit - Appendix D - Always Stand on the Union Side, Union Dixie songs
- A reinforcer between lessons
- Music Tag
- Civil War Unit - Appendix C - Star Spangled Banner, Battle Cry of Freedom songs
- Civil War Unit - Unit Test Key
- Civil War Unit - Unit Test
- Civil War Unit - Lesson E: Songs of the South
- Civil War Unit - Lesson D: Songs of the North
- Civil War Unit - Lesson C: Patriotic Songs
- Civil War Unit - Lesson B: Underground Railroad
- Civil War Unit - Appendix E - The Bonnie Blue Flag, Dixie's Land songs
- Civil War Unit - Appendix B - On An Underground Railroad, Follow The Drinking Gourd songs
- Let's Write a Song
- Music Game with Recorders
- Instrument making
- 8 days on Deafness and American Sign Language
- This multidisciplinary plan is called Music Basketball and deals with Note Values
- The Get-Acquainted Rhythm Game illustrates the difference between rhythm and beat
- This game idea is called music concentration and can be used for about any musical Ttopic
- This is an introductory note values and time signatures lesson
- A Music staff review game
- In this "Teacher May I" game, students take steps relating to note value, beat, rhythm, etc.
- Map Rubric
- Day 8: Route to Freedom:Mapping North Carolina's UGR routes
- Put your students in the driver's seat with this 'Bus Driver' flashcard idea
- This is an Ode to Thanksgiving Poem Song which can be expanded as a writing activity
- This Vivaldi's "Spring" lesson correlates music with weather and history
- "On the first day of Christmas, my parents gave to me __" involves spelling, ordinal numbers, and memory practice
- A Music Relay Race to teach Note Values and how they fit into Measures
- These ideas use UNO cards to identify instrument families
- This lesson teaches quarter notes with the help of bubble gum
- Here is a music lesson on feelings and mood
- Here are two "Bang, Splat, Ring..." sound word memory games
- UGR Unit Rubrics
- This is an excellent "draw what you hear" lesson
- This is a variation of the "Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar" chant
- This "Name that Style" activity teaches elements of music and defines music styles
- This lesson teaches adjectives with music and mystery objects
- This is a lesson plan on music composition
- This is a note/rest 5-up flashcard game idea
- Here classes compose their own concert songs about frogs or other themes
- Click here to play Wheel of Fortune Hangman with song lyrics: TW_NK_E TW_NK_E __TT_E ST_R
- Click here to celebrate Chinese New Year with oriental music and lanterns
- Using a jump rope rhyme is an effective idea to teach note values
- This math and music idea instills numeracy without using number symbols
- Here is a review day or substitute teacher activity idea
- Here's a Music lesson on the speeds of Notes called "Musical Speed Math"
- This outdoor idea combines sidewalk chalk with music symbols
- In this lesson, students create their own music classification system
- Here's an idea to teach toddlers dynamics using puppets and percussion instruments
- This is an "Around the World" note teaching game using "Boomwhackers"
- This is an African-American music history awareness lesson
- A multidisciplinary lesson on Music Around the World
- "Rhythm Board Race" is a game for teaching Notes and Rests
- These percussion activities help dyslexic children identify rhythm patterns in written text
- Here's a lesson idea on the Musical Styles
- The structure, style, and themes of Baroque music are charted here
- Here's an idea on Notes that uses a Boomwacker Relay Race
- Day 3: Hear the Whistle Blow! -Musical Messages of Freedom
- "Where in the World is Mr. Maraca?" is a quarter-long exploration of world music
- This is a music rhythm filler activity
- This is an awesome and quiet rhythm relay game
- In this musical chairs idea, students sit when they hear the "magical" pattern rhythm
- Day 10: Riding the Rails:Personal Journeys to Freedom - Continued
- Here's a 7-Up type game for teaching note values
- This lesson called "Musical Terms" actually teaches Language Arts Terms
- This is an idea for teaching notes and chords with boomwhackers
- This game helps students learn about songs of the Armed Forces in a fun way
- This game is for helping students memorize note names
- This 4/4 rhythm activity is a good introduction to canon and part-singing
- This game idea is played like 20 Questions, but for musical instruments
- Here students take rhythmic dictation with the help of some special cards
- This lesson involves using phone calls to learn musical notes
- This tasteful idea uses Kit-Kats to teach 8th notes
- UGR Unit Bibliography And Webliography
- A lesson idea called "Lovely Rivers" which uses songs about with Rivers
- The "Freeze, Pair and Share" strategy is practiced here for note value, addition, etc.
- This is a neat idea where students help make a real "Rhythm Pizza"
- Here is an idea to use songsheets to display student artwork as well as singing skills
- The musical components of college fight songs are compared in this lesson
- This brief idea suggests teaching Beethoven'sOde to Joyduring the Olympics
- "Rules Rap" is a new way to present first-day music class instructions
- This plan contains information about Beethoven and Bach
- This is a "Note Name Sparkle" game idea
- This is a Rhythm Face-Off Game
- Unit introduction, timeline, essential questions, objectives, national standards, adaptations
- In this idea, students play TV reporters and interview their "Favorite Composer"
- In this game, students use their bodies to represent rhythms
- In this lesson, students compose a sound map with classroom instruments
- The dynamics in the William Tell Overture are the focus of this lesson plan
- This is a fun idea for introducing school staff to students
- This is a low stress spelling game for music and other words
- Diary Writing Rubric
- Although not a lesson plan, this "Eternal Flame" song may be helpful in dealing with terrorism
- This lesson idea demonstrates the common element of rhythm in multi-cultural and rock music
- Here is a music lesson plan using games
- Math manipulatives are used here to show how fractions apply to note values
- Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with the paper mache maracas crafted in this art and music project
- This Music game is called Rhythm Bingo
- "Musical Twister" is game idea for reviewing the names and symbols of notes and rests
- This activity idea is for learning composers
- Cooperative Group Work Rubric
- Here are instructions for creating the Hawaiian 'Uli 'Uli musical gourd rattle instrument used in hula dances
- "Acka-Backa Yummy Cracker" teaches note values with a rhyme, a game, and crackers
- This lesson is for visualization of rhythm
- A Christmas time Music idea that involves Caroling to the other classes
- Here's a music lesson on major key signatures and scales
- In this lesson, students create a brochure about a composer
- This lesson looks at Appalachian Folk Music and Culture
- This is a quick lining up song idea
- It's "Peanut Butter Jelly Rhythm Time" up in here...
- "Oy! Hanukkah!" is a great collection of Chanukah resources and ideas
- This marching in time lesson also teaches left-right, left-right...
- You can review rhythm here with just a roll of the dice
- Music Theory Basketball is played here
- In this "delightfully fun" but challenging lesson, students "Step-Clap-Kick" quarter note/rest rhythms
- Students create their own symphony story using characters from "Peter and the Wolf" here
- A Class Management technique for getting students to Line Up appropriately and also teach the Staff
- Staff Game is a kinetic activity idea for reinforcing the fundamentals of music
- This lesson is on music that tells a story
- "Name Game with a Beat" is a musical version of a previous name learning activity
- This Bean Bag game idea deals with the Names of Musical Notes
- This is an idea for a game called Match The Sound
- Here's a filler idea for Music called "Freeze Dance"
- A giant keyboard is "key" to this "note" worthy idea
- Here are song lyrics for a Veteran's Day assembly
- This coping with terrorism idea involves making song "puzzles" out of the words from patriotic songs
- Here is a great, musical game that also teaches about nouns, adjectives and verbs
- A Music Lesson on Melody and Rhythm that I wrote
- This excellent lesson on the "We Shall Overcome" civil rights anthem teaches the historical power of music
- A lesson on the Vietnam War that uses Music
- Day 6: Underground Research
- This is a lesson on composing and rhythm
- "Onomatopoeia Rita" is an active percussion poem for kinesthetic and auditory learners
- This creative lesson teaches two-digit multiplication and the cha-cha
- Here's an outline of an introduction to band instruments lesson
- This lesson uses an interactive website to teach note identification to beginning band students
- This football flashcard scoring game can be used by any subject
- This musical picture sentence book Iidea gets students involved in actually listening to a piece of music
- This is a beginning ballet lesson idea
- An interesting lesson for creating Phone Number Melodies
- This is a "Name That Tune" game filler idea
- This Music lesson is on proper Posture
- After this activity, students will be able to recite the names of their classmates in rhythm
- This is a game called Rhythm Baseball
- "Music Math" teaches order of operations using note values
- Here students learn dynamic terminology and demonstrate the levels with their voices and bodies
- This lesson uses an interactive website to teach key signatures to AP music theory students
- This lesson idea is on the various types of Folk Music
- A Music lesson plan on the Opera
- This multiple intelligence scavenger hunt can help you form cooperative groups
- Student art illustrates a patriotic song in this holiday slide show idea
- Here is an end-of-year music class idea: Sing around the Campfire
- The author of this lesson compares the development of a song with the development of a story character
- "Who Wants to be a Music Master?" is the title of this lesson idea - Music Trivia
- This idea will have your students listening carefully to the musical "words" of Miles Davis
- Day 5: Tracking the Quilting Codes - Continued
- A fun circle music game
- In "Munchy Music and Musical Money", students compose with M&Ms; and pennies
- Don't be a "denominator hater" 'cause "Adding Fractions Rap" is in the house!
- Here "Dominotes" and "Musical Blackjack" are played
- Day 2: Conductors of Freedom:The Role of Abolitionists and Quakers in the UGR Movement
- Notes on the Staff merge with Spelling in this neat lesson plan
- These acrostic classroom M-U-S-I-C-I-A-N rules, clap-pat-snap to a rap beat
- This is a 4 Part Unit on Music and Emotions
- A Math lesson plan that uses Music to help teach the Multiplication Facts
- In this game idea, students draw, identify and give facts about musical symbols
- Singing this song turns lining-up into a joyful activity
- Here's a lesson on patterns in music
- Presentation Rubric
- Day 7: Underground Research - Continued
- This is a musical instrument writing prompt idea
- This activity idea serves as a good introduction to instruments
- A Music Lesson I wrote on Rhythm and Tempo
- Here is another note value math game
- "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "America the Beautiful" are compared in this lesson
- This is a brief idea for teaching Prepositions with song
- Here students interview famous jazz musicians in a talk show setting, then the class plays "Jazz Musician Jeopardy" with the same questions
- A lesson on sound that incorporates music and literature (The Magic School Bus)
- This lesson on Playing How You Feel is called "Little Mozarts"
- "The Ebeneezer Scrooge Music Experience" is a delightfully clever idea for presenting Christmas music past, present, and future
- "Musical Math" deals with the Values of Musical Notes
- In this multidisciplinary lesson, students form a beautiful bulletin board using rhythm and math
- "Look, Listen & Learn" is a composers and history lesson that can be taught without saying a word!
- Here is a Kodaly Hand Sign Game idea for choir students
- Music students love to create these rhythmic syllable sentences
- Here's a Christmas lesson plan that "S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-S" the song "Silent Night"
- This is a good art filler activity - Musical Chairs with Art at each chair
- This lesson plan involves emotions in music and srt
- "Scribble Music" is a great early year, break time or substitute plan
- This addition/absolute value lesson plan uses a song to help teach the concepts
- Abstract art as a visual metaphor for modern music is the hypothesis explored here
- Project Rubric
- This "Math through Music" lesson encourages mental math and quantity analysis while educating students musically
- Speaking of "Bang-Splat-Ring," are they sounds or music? Click here to find out
- "Quick Draw" is an old-west note value math game
- A Music lesson integrating Art and Language Arts involving Contrast
- This rhythm game idea is called "Time Signature Scurry"
- A brief Music idea to help in learning the Staff
- Essential Concepts and Vocabulary with a Fun Song That Helps Student Retention
- This idea uses several twister games to teach notes or rhythm patterns
- This is an integrated Aboriginal Dot Painting lesson plan
- Here's an idea for teaching about theme and variation in music
- Day 9: Riding the Rails:Personal Journeys to Freedom
- This musical notes game is called Note Pyramids
- A great lesson idea on teaching the Staff, using Twister
- Day 4: Tracking the Quilting Codes
- A Science and Art lesson on creating a Rain Stick (Music and Social Studies too)
- This lesson teaches intervals and that each note has both a tone and time value
- This idea uses hide-and-seek to teach dynamics
- This introduction to vocal control is a hummmmm-dinger
- Compare the emotions and instruments of "Under the Sea"' and "Canon in D" in this lesson
- Here students add a sentence to the character development paragraph in front of them, and then switch chairs
- Here is a music composers game
- Here's a Rhythm game idea using Body Percussion
- Here students learn to recognize the writing trait of voice in books, music and art
- Here is an instrument activity with an apple theme
- This lesson deals with Musical Vocabulary Links - Vocabulary from Songs!
- In this listening idea, students write an 8-page story booklet inspired by the mood of eight songs
- Day 1: Derailment of Human Rights:A Life of Slavery
- This note value idea is called "Whole Note Pizza"
- Self-Report Affective Assessment Rubric
- Bill of Rights Song
- Carnival of the animals
- Finding the Singing Voice: An Introduction to Vocal Control
- Civil War Unit - Unit Outline
