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Music Lesson Plans - Grades 6-7
- 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
- Civil War Unit - Appendix D - Always Stand on the Union Side, Union Dixie songs
- 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
- Repeat Signs
- Distinguishing Voice Types
- Instrument making
- This multidisciplinary plan is called Music Basketball and deals with Note Values
- Literary Response - students write a book report comparing their research to an author's viewpoint
- This is an introductory note values and time signatures lesson
- A Music staff review game
- This idea teaches band students how to count eighth notes
- This lesson teaches the correct posture for singing
- Unit Intro: The documentary film "Ballou" follows a struggling inner city school band as it overcomes obstacles and uplifts its community on the way to a national competition
- Data Analysis (Statistics) - how to construct a histogram, line graph, scatter and stem-and-leaf plot
- These ideas use UNO cards to identify instrument families
- This lesson teaches quarter notes with the help of bubble gum
- In this lesson, jazz inspires students to create a Romare Bearden style collage
- Here are two "Bang, Splat, Ring..." sound word memory games
- This "Name that Style" activity teaches elements of music and defines music styles
- In this final project idea, students create a band complete with song and CD cover
- This is a lesson plan on music composition
- This is a note/rest 5-up flashcard game idea
- In this lesson, students create their own music classification system
- This is an African-American music history awareness lesson
- "Rhythm Board Race" is a game for teaching Notes and Rests
- Here's a lesson idea on the Musical Styles
- In this lesson, students learn to carefully listen to and analyze music
- The structure, style, and themes of Baroque music are charted here
- History and Nature of Science - after a field trip, students analyze what they did and did not see
- Here's an idea on Notes that uses a Boomwacker Relay Race
- "Where in the World is Mr. Maraca?" is a quarter-long exploration of world music
- This is a music rhythm filler activity
- Beethoven's 9th Symphony is the subject of this author's lesson ideas
- This is an awesome and quiet rhythm relay game
- In this lesson, students learn musical notes by using phone numbers
- Reading Comprehension Strategies - students host a reading marathon, use a graphic organizer
- Ballou High School Movie Unit - Lesson Plan II
- Here's a lesson on Pronouns using Music
- Be popular! Assign this Christmas song parody idea!
- This lesson is on instruments, sounds, and compositions and uses the Internet
- Writing Applications - students write original songs on to save the Bats/Clapper Rails from extinction
- Here students take rhythmic dictation with the help of some special cards
- This tasteful idea uses Kit-Kats to teach 8th notes
- A lesson idea called "Lovely Rivers" which uses songs about with Rivers
- 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
- In this idea, students play TV reporters and interview their "Favorite Composer"
- In this lesson, students compose a sound map with classroom instruments
- This is a fun idea for introducing school staff to students
- This is a low stress spelling game for music and other words
- " A Round and A Round"
- 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
- Writing Process Planning - students describe "Stellaluna" plot components and a cultural theme
- This Music game is called Rhythm Bingo
- "Musical Twister" is game idea for reviewing the names and symbols of notes and rests
- Here are instructions for creating the Hawaiian 'Uli 'Uli musical gourd rattle instrument used in hula dances
- This idea is on "Radio Stars" and involves the students Acting as Radio Personalities
- Here's a music lesson on major key signatures and scales
- Here is a good Halloween idea called "Monsters, Ghosts, and Other Things That Go BOO"
- It's "Peanut Butter Jelly Rhythm Time" up in here...
- In this lesson, students use a familiar folk melody and Bela Bartok's inspiration to compose their own song
- Students produce a multimedia fairy tale photo story here told from a different perspective
- You can review rhythm here with just a roll of the dice
- Writing Components Organization - students produce a PowerPoint and play about preservation
- Music Theory Basketball is played here
- Expository Writing - students compile a scientific research report from a thesis statement here
- In this "delightfully fun" but challenging lesson, students "Step-Clap-Kick" quarter note/rest rhythms
- Here students write a Grammy nomination letter for their favorite artist or group
- Staff Game is a kinetic activity idea for reinforcing the fundamentals of music
- This lesson is on music that tells a story
- Writing Components - students write and perform a complete history from collected research materials
- A giant keyboard is "key" to this "note" worthy idea
- This coping with terrorism idea involves making song "puzzles" out of the words from patriotic songs
- 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
- This is a lesson on composing and rhythm
- "Onomatopoeia Rita" is an active percussion poem for kinesthetic and auditory learners
- This lesson uses an interactive website to teach note identification to beginning band students
- Reading and Vocabulary - students collect a flannel board of vocabulary words and stage a spelling bee
- This musical picture sentence book Iidea gets students involved in actually listening to a piece of music
- This is a beginning ballet lesson idea
- Here students assess their school in comparison to Ballou High school and then send letters proposing improvements
- After this activity, students will be able to recite the names of their classmates in rhythm
- This is a game called Rhythm Baseball
- This lesson introduces students to musicals
- Yuma bats and Clapper Rails Unit Introduction
- Here is a jazz musician's crossword puzzle idea
- "Music Math" teaches order of operations using note values
- Here's an idea for teaching about "Women in 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
- "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
- This multimedia lesson teaches how to use key images and music to convey a theme in a personal photo story narrative
- This particular lesson plan involves writing a rap song!
- Don't be a "denominator hater" 'cause "Adding Fractions Rap" is in the house!
- Here "Dominotes" and "Musical Blackjack" are played
- These acrostic classroom M-U-S-I-C-I-A-N rules, clap-pat-snap to a rap beat
- In this game idea, students draw, identify and give facts about musical symbols
- This idea uses a song to teach linking verbs
- This is a musical instrument writing prompt idea
- 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
- This is a dynamics in music performance lesson
- 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
- Here students create their own rap songs incorporating the use of similes and metaphors
- This brief idea on Designing a Music CD cover merges Art with Music
- Here a Student Representative Council For The Bands is created
- Music students love to create these rhythmic syllable sentences
- This lesson looks at the Poetry of Music
- Here's a Christmas lesson plan that "S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-S" the song "Silent Night"
- In this lesson, song lyrics are corrected for grammar and punctuation
- "Musical Jeopardy" is a popular game idea
- Writing Process Prewriting - students contrast bats and clapper rails using a Venn Diagram
- Writing Process Publishing - students create computer graphs showing the population rise
- "Music Baseball" is a note and symbol review game
- The question "Does background music affect your writing?" is answered here
- 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
- This lesson plan is on Musical Modes
- Discrete Mathematics - class systematically lists and counts bats
- A Science and Art lesson on creating a Rain Stick (Music and Social Studies too)
- Here students notate their intervals with skittles
- This introduction to vocal control is a hummmmm-dinger
- This lesson is on Music, Lines, Color, and Related Emotions
- This lesson uses dance as a way of speaking without words
- 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
- Art Music - students write music verses and use kinesthetic intelligences to imitate bat sound & flight
- Here students learn to recognize the writing trait of voice in books, music and art
- This interval relay game takes music to the gym or playground
- 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
- Carnival of the animals
- Finding the Singing Voice: An Introduction to Vocal Control
- Civil War Unit - Unit Outline
