A great guide for the novice music technology student or teacher!! This unit booklet serves as a guide for both students and teachers who are navigating composing on music software for the first time. Activities are general enough to be used across multiple music software platforms while still developing music composition skills. This unit booklet is 11 pages long and is best suited for students with basic note reading capabilities at the very least. This booklet is wonderful for engaging a number of young musicians at the same time as they can move through the booklet at their own pace. Included Activities: Note entry overview and practice Triad entry overview and practice Simple I, IV, V chord progression entry Melody writing to a set chord pattern Chord pattern composition Fitting a melody to chordal composition Adding harmonies to melody and chord progression Writing with different instruments Extension: learn to play your composition on real instruments Included in this item are 2 packets, one using American terminology (i.e. quarter notes, half notes, etc) and one using British language (i.e. crotchets, quavers, etc.).

Decorate your music classroom with these beautiful and informative music note posters or use them as part of a powerpoint presentation. There are 40 PNGs in total in this pack. 18 are music notes with definitions and 22 are large staff paper. This staff paper is easy to use for smart boards or powerpoint presentations or can be printed for class activities. The large staff paper is especially good for little hands or new students to music. Happy Decorating! Vocabulary Crotchet (stem up and down) Quaver (stem up and down) Minim (stem up and down) Semibreve Semiquaver (stem up and down) Crotchet rest Quaver rest Minim rest Semibreve rest Semiquaver rest Treble Clef Bass Clef

5 printable worksheets designed to strengthen musical comprehension. Students are asked to examine a short excerpt of written music and identify or define musical terms and symbols followed by a short notation exercise on each page. These worksheets are designed for students of moderate musical experience.

This is a fun matching game that reinforces recognition of musical instruments. There are 16 instruments included in this game and students need to match the picture to the instrument name. Included Instruments: Harp, Cello, Violin, Guitar, Drum, Triangle, Cymbals, Trumpet, Piano, Clarinet, Flute, Saxophone, Tambourine, Recorder, Maraca, and Xylophone ** This is a compressed (ZIP) file. Please make sure you can extract prior to purchase.**

Here are 36 adorable fruit and veggie graphics for your decorating needs. Each image is saved with a transparent background both in a black and white format and in a colored version to suit any decorating needs for your classroom, lessons, worksheets, or presentations. In total, there are 18 different styles which are listed below for your convenience. Each image is saved as a PNG file and they are all compressed in a ZIP folder. Happy decorating! Included in this product: Apple Avocado Banana Broccoli Carrot Corn Eggplant Garlic Grape Lemon Lettuce Mushroom Orange Pear Peas Pumpkin Strawberry Watermelon

This is a fun unit for students to begin to explore the links between technology and music. This unit uses listening, composing, and arranging tasks and comes with grading rubrics for composing and arranging tasks. Students explore a I, V, vi, IV chord progression and apply this knowledge to different popular songs. Based upon what they have learned, students will then attempt to arrange their own piece of music based on this four-chord progression. Depending on how much time you allow for composition and performance tasks, this unit could last from 6 to 12 lessons. ** You will need to have previously downloaded software that will allow for either recording or note-entry and layering effects to make full use of this unit. **

Here are 10 holiday songs with color-coded note names and pictures of the matching piano chords. Easy to read and use for beginning piano, chordal instruments, or pitched percussion! This is also easy to share or airdrop to students if they have their own devices or if you have department iPads (or something similar) which reduces your need to print. Included Songs Deck the Halls Jingle Bells The First Noel Silent Night We Wish You a Merry Christmas …and many more! **Files are in a compressed (zip) folder. Please make sure you know how to extract prior to purchase. **

Here are 30 folk songs with color-coded note names and pictures of the matching piano chords. Easy to read and use for beginning piano, chordal instruments, or pitched percussion! This is also easy to share or airdrop to students if they have their own devices or if you have department iPads (or something similar) which reduces your need to print! Included Songs ABC Song London Bridge Row Your Boat Twinkle, Twinkle Frere Jacques Three Blind Mice Baa Baa Black Sheep Old MacDonald Head and Shoulders …and many more! **Files are in a compressed (zip) folder. Please make sure you know how to extract prior to purchase. **

Here is a fun matching game to review simple addition problems using 10s and 5s to reach a sum of 100. There are 15 pairs of cards. The first has the start of the equation and the match has the end of the equation.

19 worksheets designed to help students strengthen their skills with scales, triads and intervals. These worksheets are designed for beginning to intermediate students. Pupils without prior knowledge of scales, triads and intervals may find this work difficult.

This 15 page workbook is a complete unit for students to begin developing their knowledge of music structure and form. Binary, ternary, and rondo form are the focus of this unit. There are listening, composition, and performance activities throughout the workbook along with rubrics for the performance tasks. Included in this file are a workbook with quarter/eighth note language and one with crotchet/quaver language as well as an answer key for your convenience. My Grade 5 pupils really enjoy this unit and enjoy all of the performance and composition opportunities.

This unit covers 5 musical scales: pentatonic, major, minor, chromatic, and whole tone. This booklet is 15 pages long and includes a variety of listening, performing, and composition activities and as well as grading rubrics. It typically takes about 10-14 weeks to work through this unit with all of the activities and giving students enough practice time to solidify skills. There are copies of this unit in the file that use quarter notes and half notes as well as crotchets and quavers.

Spark your student’s inner music historian with easy to read, one page biographies on 23 composers from different music time periods then use the biography to search for hidden words in the attached word-search relating to the composer. A great activity for introductory music history lessons or lessons for non-music specialists. All biographies are formatted for one page and are saved as individual PDFs for ease of printing. An answer key per composer is included. Composers included: Tchaikovsky Rachmaninov Mussorgsky Mahler Verdi Grieg Debussy Chopin Brahms Bernstein Davis Gershwin Stravinsky Joplin Whitacre Williams Mozart Haydn Beethoven Bach Vivaldi Handel Monteverdi

These are easy to print, colorful labels for classroom jobs. My class enjoyed taking on the extra classroom responsibilities and liked being able to select their job of the week from the selection I’ve posted for you. Included in this set are 32 different labels, a “class jobs” banner in three different colors, and an editable label page if you want to create your own labels!

Here are 11 different Valentine’s Day themed graphics for your decorating needs. Each image is saved with a transparent background both in a black and white format and in a colored version. I had fun playing with the colored versions so instead of merely 11, there are 37 colored images for you to choose from. In total, there are 48 Valentine’s Day images in 11 different styles. Each image is saved as a PNG file and they are all compressed in a ZIP folder. Happy decorating!

This is a great resource for older music pupils to develop their listening skills. There are 5 pages that support the recognition and development of specific music terminology related to musical elements. The final page is a listening chart that encourages addressing all of the musical elements when listening to a piece of music.

This is a great reference tool for students who want to develop music-specific terminology. There are 8 pages of vocabulary defining words that are often used to describe structure, harmony, melody, rhythm, dynamics, articulation, tempo, texture, instruments, music history, and music technology. The same 8 pages are then copied for you twice to make this as adaptable to your lessons as possible; once with the terminology and no definitions and once with neither words or definitions. Hopefully, you find this as useful as I have for reinforcing music terminology.

Free clipart! 9 different colored dragonflies saved as PNG files that you are free to use in your educational or TES resources. One of my first attempts at making clipart, so I thought it was only fair to share for free! Happy decorating!

Free clipart! 8 different colored bows that you are free to use in your educational or TES resources. One of my first attempts at making clipart, so I thought it was only fair to share for free! Happy decorating!

Enjoy this color-coded treble clef staff with labeled note names! This is a great resource to use in a display, online activities, or as a visual in a larger unit. Students really enjoy the color-coding and it helps them start to identify notes quickly and easily.