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***If you are not a Pear Deck user, these slide decks are still easily adaptable for activites without the add-on.
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: ALL - This is a simple activity to get students acquainted with identifying notes on a piano.
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: BEG/INT - Getting students to understand how enharmonic spellings work and to become fluent in identifying and generating enharmonic spellings is an important skill. This Pear Deck works on helping students acquire and solidify those skills.
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: ALL - This is a simple activity to continue have students work on their note identification on piano.
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: BEG/INT - This works as a nice review of slurs vs. ties. Students will listen to examples and draw in what they hear among other activities.
Created by Rebecca Kendall, rebecca.kendall@aps.edu
Description: ALL - Test your sudents' abilities to identify popular major and minor songs.
Created by David Sorensen, david.sorensen@aps.edu
Description: BEG - This is a great activity for beginning bands. Students get to work on developing understanding of fingering charts for various instruments.
Created by David Sorensen, david.sorensen@aps.edu
Description: BEG/INT - This funny activity asks students to evaluate stock photos and instrumental actors in fun photos and clips.
Created by David Sorensen, david.sorensen@aps.edu
Description: ALL - In a friendly face-off between Star Treck vs. Star Wars, students learn more about each classic series, imagine their own instruments, and get to watch an epic 'final battle.'
Created by David Sorensen, david.sorensen@aps.edu
Description: BEG/INT - This spooky themed deck talks about a bit of Halloween as well as the use of Dies Irae in a variety of modern examples.
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: ALL - Students will take a trip around the world listeing to music from various cultures. (The audio is an add-on within Pear Deck. When the Pear Deck is running the students will have a button to listen to the clips on their end.)
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: INT/ADV - In this activity students will have a quick reivew of key signatures and then learn about the basics of the 4 types of triads and triad building.
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: ALL - During this activity students will listen to clilps of common songs and will identify if the time signature is in 3 or 4. This is also a fun way to see if your students can recognize a variety of childhood/common songs.
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: ALL - this is a light-hearted never-have-I-ever activity where students are asked fun and funny general and band related questions.
Created by Jordan Sayre, jordan.sayre@aps.edu
Description: BEG - Basic introduction or reinforcement of basic listening for pitch direction (going higher or lower) and identifying the contour of the musical ups and downs of a melody. This also has a basic introduction to identifying notes names on the lines and spaces of a treble, alto, and bass clef.
Created by Jordan Sayre, jordan.sayre@aps.edu
Description: BEG - This slide deck can be great for your beginners to gain a deeper understanding about beat and tempo.
Created by Jordan Sayre, jordan.sayre@aps.edu
Description: BEG - This is a refresher course in one of the 4 basic building blocks on music, rhythm. It reinforces 2 rhythmic skills 1. Note durations and 2. Counting rhythms.
Created by Jordan Sayre, jordan.sayre@aps.edu
Description: BEG/INT - To break up the monotony of online learning, here is a deck of music and mustard facts. Have fun messing with your class in a playful way!
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: BEG/INT - This Pear Deck asks students to draw all of the standard musical symbols (staff, accidentals, fermata, repeat, etc).
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: BEG/INT - Get your students started with basic rhythmic dictation with this activity. Students will write out counted and performed rhythms and can self-idenify if they are accurate! (The audio is an add-on within Pear Deck. When the Pear Deck is running the students will have a button to listen to the clips on their end.)
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: BEG/INT - Get your students started with basic rhythmic dictation with this activity. Students will write out counted and performed rhythms and can self-idenify if they are accurate! (The audio is an add-on within Pear Deck. When the Pear Deck is running the students will have a button to listen to the clips on their end.)
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: INT/ADV - Test your students' undersanding of flat key signatures. Students will go through a quick review and then identify a series of flat key signatures.
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: INT/ADV - Test your students' undersanding of sharp key signatures. Students will go through a quick review and then identify a series of sharp key signatures.
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: INT/ADV - Test your students' undersanding of flat key signatures. Students will go through a quick review and then draw a series of flat key signatures.
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: INT/ADV - Test your students' undersanding of sharp key signatures. Students will go through a quick review and then draw a series of flat key signatures.
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: BEG/INT - This Pear Deck asks students to identify various musical aspects by dragging items onto musical excerpts. A great learning tool or review for any age.
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: ALL - This is a fun listening activity where students are asked to listen to clips of instrumental performances and identify the instrument. This can be used for all ages! (The audio is an add-on within Pear Deck. When the Pear Deck is running the students will have a button to listen to the clips on their end.)
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: ALL - Test your percussion on their general percussion knowledge. This activiy focuses on students identifying proper playing positions and equipment for an array of percussion instruments.
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: INT - Challenge your students on their knowledge about tempo markings. This activity will likely go best if you prepare students on the definitions of: grave, lento, largo, adagio, andante, moderato, allegro, presto, and vivace.
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: INT - This is exactly how it sounds: a pear deck that foucses on developing a deeper understanding of counting 16th note patterns. Can be easily adjusted for various counting systems.
Created by Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: BEG/INT - Here is a fun activity to check to see if your band members know about parts of various band instruments. This could be a great learning activity for beginners or a fun check-in with older players.
Created by: Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: INT/ADV - Cover a vareity of questions about articulation markings in music.
Created by: Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: INT/ADV - Enjoy miscellaneous musical activities in this Pear Deck.
Created by: Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: INT/ADV - Enjoy miscellaneous musical activities in this Pear Deck.
Created by: Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: INT/ADV - If you complete learn about music therapy scavenger hunt and some of the music around the world, this pear deck covers information on music therapy, music around the world, and some rhythmic activities.
Created by: Josephine Gonzales, josephine.gonzales@aps.edu
Description: INT/ADV - This deck focuses on rhythmic activities and some information about percussion.