Description: BEG - This activity is to teach students how to write a simple 8 measure song using our first five notes.

Description: INT - This slide deck includes some history on the 12 bar blues as well as directions for students to compose their own 12 bar blues with lyrics.

Description: ALL - Here is a set of traditionall notated bucket drumming play-along parts. These guide you and your students through fun and exciting accompaniments to some popular songs.

Description: BEG/INT - These can be used as worksheets to check fingering understanding. Each line has enough examples to run through a scale, but can be used for any purposes. These can be printed out for students, exported as a PDF for students to edit in websites like Kami, or can be filled in with drawing tools.

Description: ALL - Here is a list of Google form 'quizzes' that cover a vareity of important musical knowledge. These can be used for formative, summative, or pre-assessments.

Description: ALL - This is a 12-video series designed to give students an introduction to improvisation without needing to learn modal scales or chord symbols.

Description: ALL - Students utilize the chrome music lab song maker to create a variety of compositional prompts.

Description: ALL - This activity asks students to create a jingle through chrome music lab. Stuents demonstrate understanding of musical elements along with the creation process.

Description: INT - This is a basic framework for a composition assignment. students can create their final work in Smart Music, Noteflight, or on paper.

Description: ALL - While this is not a music-specific activty, it is a great way to start the semester. Students are asked to reflect on 2020 and make some new goals for 2021. Learn more about your students and start off the year with some positive goal making.

Description: ALL - First students will learn a little bit about Peter and the Wolf through an EdPuzzle activity to learn about how the instruments were assigned to different characters. Afterwards, students are asked to pick a theme or category (like cartoon characters or ice cream flavors) to assign to each instrument. This can be used as an individual or group activity.

Description: ALL - This activity will give your students a chance to share about their favorite artist or band.

Description: ALL - Use this slide deck to have students decorate stands. This activity could be used with a variety of extensions for a fun artistic competition.

Description: ALL - Students identify basic music symbols to reveal a fun picture in the process. (Each time a correct answer is entered a part of the picture becomes visible.)

Description: ALL - Students watch a video clip and respond to how music can help reanimate the elderly with Alzheimer's and dementia.

Description: ALL - Students identify tempo markings to reveal a fun picture in the process. (Each time a correct answer is entered a part of the picture becomes visible.)

Description: ALL - Students will be asked to use their analytical skills to complete these venn diagrams. This slide deck can easily be used for a breakout group activity, Pear Deck, Nearpod, or individual work.

Description: ALL - This is a fun activity to get your kids talking. This slide deck can easily be used for a breakout activity, Pear Deck, Nearpod, or just conversation starters. It is sure to spark some fun conversations.

Description: BEG - Students will label the parts of their instrument by dragging the part names to the corresponding arrow on their instrument.

Description: BEG/INT - Contains a list of breathing videos to use in class or at home.

Description: BEG - Videos for beginners (assembly, posture, embouchure, first few notes etc.)

Description: BEG - This is a fun hyperlinked slide deck to run a band themed Jeopardy activity in your class.

Description: ALL - An activity to get students in tune with the sounds from their environments and to get them thinking consciously about what sound in their environment adds to daily experiences. This activity can be as complex or basic as you need.

Description: BEG - This is a presentation/anchor chart for students in their beginning stages of music literacy acquisition.

Description: ALL - Students are asked to tell a musical story of their life by sharing music from notable parts of their experiences. This is also a great way to get an idea of what your students listen to to work on creating a better musical connection with them.

Description: BEG - Here is an activity of tonal patterns that students work to identify aurally with notation. Think of it as a very beginning version of dicatation.

Description: ALL - This is an assignment to find what a good example of a performer on each student's instrument. Students are asked to respond to musically analytical questions in response.

Description: ALL - Walk students through creating a mini booklet and flip books for them to add music vocabularly thoughout their semester.

Description: ALL -This activity walks students through a few activities around the Star Spangled Banner.

Description: ALL - This is an accessible listening and responding acvitivity. Students are asked to listen to a performance of Paradiso by. Robert W Smith and respond to what they heard. This can easily be adjusted for any kind of listening activity.

Description: INT/ADV - This is a 10-task online scavenger hunt. This is intented as a team activity and asks students to look around the internet for facts and to complete tasks.

Description: ALL - This can be a team activity or an individual activity with minial tweaking. The pupose of this activity is to guide students into discovering information about music therapy.

Description: ALL - This is a listening comparing/contrasting activity. The slide deck has 4 versions of Smashmouth's All-Star (1 being the original). Students are asked to respond to the different versions and discuss their preferences and reasonings.

Description: ALL - This activity asks students to find 'good' and 'not-so-good' performances of musicians on their instrument. Students are asked to analyze what makes the performances 'good' and 'not-so-good' to work on their adjudication skills.

Description: ALL - This slide deck asks students to compare Michael Jackson's Beat It with Weird Al's Eat It. It is a fun and light-hearted musical comparison activity.

Description: ALL - The main goal of this activity is to get students talking to each other and getting to know each other better. It is intended as a group activity where students interview each other. Can easily be adjusted.

Description: ALL -This activity is not particularly music oriented but is intended to lighten the mood during rough times. Students are asked to focus on things that make them happy. I have used responses (songs and jokes) to share and lighten the mood in class meets.

Description: ALL - These are a series of activites where students watch videos about how various instruments are made and then answer questions about what they learned. This is great for asynchronous time!

Description: INT/ADV - This activity asks students to 'be the band director' and to create a program for a concert.

Description: ALL - This is a series of activities that encourage students to learn about music from all around the world. Can be done as a class activity, group work, or individual work.

Description: ALL - This activity leads students to consider how music can change the feel of a movie by watching clips and responding.

Description: ALL - This is a very basic activity where students are asked to explore the Chrome Music Lab and respond on their experiences.

Description: ALL - This activity walks students through the process of using found items in their household to create their own instrument.

Description: ALL - This is a great in-class activity that you can use in-person or synchronously online. I assign the bingo cards in Google Classroom and let students 'choose their destiny.' Then, call the instruments however you want: by their names or make it harder and describe them so students have to use their knowledge.

Description: ALL - This is a great in-class activity that you can use in-person or synchronously online. I assign the bingo cards in Google Classroom and let students 'choose their destiny.' You can call the enharmonic spellings and students will have to find the matching note on their cards.

Description: ALL - This is a great in-class activity that you can use in-person or synchronously online. I assign the bingo cards in Google Classroom and let students 'choose their destiny.' I then call each 'card' by calling out each term's definition.

Description: INT/ADV - This is a great in-class activity that you can use in-person or synchronously online. I assign the bingo cards in Google Classroom and let students 'choose their destiny.' Then, call the symbols however you want: by their names or make it harder and describe them so students have to use their knowledge.

Description: INT/ADV - This is a great in-class activity that you can use in-person or synchronously online. I assign the bingo cards in Google Classroom and let students 'choose their destiny.' Then, call the terms however you want: by their names or make it harder aand give the definitions.

Description: ALL - Composition unit using online notation software. Suitable for grades 8 and up. Kids must be online.