Subject(s): Music Grades(s): Junior High/High School

Composition:

• Here is a lesson plan on music composition
• This lesson is on composing and rhythm
• This particular lesson plan involves writing a rap song!
• In this lesson, AP Music students will write a four-part harmony between 2 chords whose roots are a perfect fourth apart
• In this outstanding choral music lesson plan, students compose, perform, and teach a “round”, then produce its CD and video
• Here students compose a sound map with classroom instruments

Dance & Movement:

• This lesson uses dance as a way of speaking without words
• This is a beginning ballet lesson idea

Instruments:

• This excellent unit is on Found Music(anything can be used as a Musical Instrument):
  • The first lesson is an Idea Challenge where students Brainstorm answers to various questions
  • Lesson 2, “Courting Composers,” inspires students to Write Music of their own
  • In lesson 3, students Critique Peers’ Compositions
  • This “Polishing Brass” lesson familarizes students with the Editing Process
  • In part 5, “The Concert,” students Perform the pieces they Composed

   

• This is an outline of an introduction to band instruments lesson

Music Components – Dynamics & Patterns:

• This is a dynamics in music performance lesson

Music Components – Mood, Expression, & Emotion:

• Students explore grief while discussing Barber’s Anthony O’Daly choral music recording
• The question “Does background music affect your writing?” is answered here

Music Components – Rhythm & Melody:

• Here’s a Rhythm game idea using body percussion
• In this “delightfully fun” but challenging lesson, students “Step-Clap-Kick” quarter note/rest rhythms
• This is an awesome and quiet rhythm relay game
• This lesson idea demonstrates the common element of rhythm in multi-cultural and rock music
• It’s “Peanut Butter Jelly Rhythm Time” up in here…
• Here students take rhythmic dictation with the help of some special cards

Music Components – Symbols & Scale:

• Intervals, scales, and triads are the subjects of this lesson
• Here is a lesson on repeat signs
• Here is a lesson for teaching the whole tone scale
• In this lesson, students learn musical notes by using phone numbers
• This lesson uses an interactive website to teach note identification to beginning band students
• This lesson uses an interactive website to teach key signatures to AP music theory students
• Students invent and use a new notation system in this lesson
• This is an introductory note values and time signatures lesson
• Here “Dominotes” and “Musical Blackjack” are played
• “Music Baseball” is a note and symbol review game
• “Musical Twister” is game idea for reviewing the names and symbols of notes and rests
• In this game idea, students draw, identify and give facts about musical symbols
• Staff Game is a kinetic activity idea for reinforcing the fundamentals of music

Music Components – Other:

• This is an extensive music theory webquest review of chords, triad inversion, and diatonic triads

Music History / Literature / Musicians:

• Here is another music plan on composers using a game format
• This plan contains information about Beethoven and Bach
• This lesson on composers & history is called “Look, Listen, & Learn” and can be taught without saying a word!
• Beethoven’s 9th Symphony is the subject of this author’s lesson ideas
• Here is a jazz musician’s crossword puzzle idea
• Here is an AP Modern Fine Arts and Literature Unit on Igor Stravinsky
• This is a Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody analytical activity and an Art Rock appreciation lesson
• This is an African-American music history awareness lesson

Musical Styles / Types:

• A Music lesson plan on the Opera
• This “Name that Style” activity teaches elements of music and defines music styles
• Music in relation to history is the topic of this contemporary classical music lesson
• This lesson introduces students to musicals

Singing:

• Here’s an idea to help students identify voice types
• This introduction to vocal control is a hummmmm-dinger
• Students identify their favorite singer’s voice type in this idea
• This is a Kodaly Hand Sign Game idea for choir students

Other / Multiple Topics:

• This lesson is on Instruments, Sounds, and Compositions and uses the Internet
• Although not a lesson plan, this song may be helpful in dealing with terrorism. It’s called “Eternal Flame”
• In this lesson, students learn to carefully listen to and analyze music
• This brief idea suggests teaching Beethoven’s Ode to Joy during the Olympics
• “Musical Jeopardy” is a popular game idea
• Here student art illustrates a patriotic song in a holiday slide show program
• In this final project idea, students create a band complete with song and CD cover
• Music Theory Basketball is played here
• Here students write a Grammy nomination letter for their favorite artist or group
• Here a Student Representative Council For The Bands is created
• This is a fun song or rap written for an 8th Grade graduation banquet

Art Connections:

• This lesson is on Music, Lines, Color, and Related Emotions
• In this lesson, jazz inspires students to create a Romare Bearden style collage
• This is an integrated Aboriginal Dot Painting lesson plan

Computers & Internet Connections:

• This multimedia lesson teaches how to use key images and music to convey a theme in a personal photo story narrative
• This digital storytelling lesson encourages students to use electronic media and music to tell a creative personal story

Language Arts Connections:

• This lesson deals with Musical Vocabulary Links – Vocabulary from Songs!
• Improve Listening Comprehension with Music
• Here’s a lesson on Pronouns using Music
• This lesson looks at the Poetry of Music
• Music students love to create these rhythmic syllable sentences
• In this multidisciplinary idea, students recreate Romeo and Juliet in a different time and place
• This idea uses a song to teach linking verbs
• This is a low stress spelling game for music or other words
• This writing idea connects music to the literature your class is studying
• Here students learn to recognize the writing trait of “voice” in books, music and art
• In this lesson, song lyrics are corrected for grammar and punctuation
• Here students create their own rap songs incorporating the use of similes and metaphors
• “Onomatopoeia Rita” is an active percussion poem for kinesthetic and auditory learners
• Spanish-language music in popular genres improves listening comprehension skills in this Spanish II lesson
• Yo, away, ho, singing sea shanty poems is the way to go – to introduce Melville’s Moby Dick
• Students produce a multimedia fairy tale photo story here told from a different perspective
• Be popular! Assign this Christmas song parody idea!
• Some of the sixteen components of this contemporary authors final portfolio project involve music

Social Studies Connections:

• This idea is on “Radio Stars” and involves the students acting as radio personalities
• A lesson idea called “Lovely Rivers” which uses songs about with rivers
• Here’s a fun history project called “We Didn’t Start The Fire”
• Students create a Civil War digital diorama here including Civil War era music in the presentation
• This excellent lesson on the “We Shall Overcome” civil rights anthem teaches the historical power of music