Resource Depot for Elementary Music and Classroom
I have created my resource depot to aid in planning and doing my job assignment this year. My job assignment includes teaching P-6 Music, resource, and grade 3 integrated studies which includes health, science, social studies, and art. This depot might be useful to any elementary school teacher, especially anyone who teaches music and other subjects. This depot contains movement resources for teachers to use to teach rhythm/beat/movement lessons or as brain breaks. There are also several links related to social studies, health, art, and science that contain helpful lesson plans and information. To find resources for my depot I used Pinterest, Google, YouTube, information from professional development sessions, and suggestions from classmate’s websites. Creating this resource depot gave me an opportunity to organize the many resources pinned on my Music Education Pinterest wall. Items that made it to my resource depot had to be accurate, clear and concise, related to the outcomes of the curriculums I teach, engaging for students, and/or useful to use with my students.
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Art
Wonderful pastel art project that allows students to create a portrait of themselves catching a snowflake on their tongues'.
Dia de los Muertos - Skeleton Collage
A skeleton paper collage art project that uses concepts of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
A whimsical tree art project that could use line, pattern, and contrasting colours.
Stop Motion Animation resource that takes you step by step through creating a stop motion animation project.
A snowman art project made using chalk.
An art project that features line, pattern, the colour wheel, and chromatic colours.
Art project that uses the story "Where the Wild Things Are" to introduce students to texture.
A mug of coco art project that could use line, pattern, and colour.
An art activity allowing students to draw a cartoon of themselves as a superhero. A good piece to use for self reflection about traits of a hero as well.
A website that goes through step-by-step instructions of how to draw a one-point perspective drawing of a landscape.
Christmas Concert
Good example of the melody for O Christmas Tree, however the lyrics do not match the planned lyrics for the concert.
The Barra MacNeil's sing Christmas in Killarney.
Sufian Stevens live performance of O Holy Night in the key the students will be singing it in.
Example of Waltzing Matilda.
Very impressive Christmas medley including Patapan done in a friendly range.
I have a Little Dreydel accompaniment
Accompaniment track for the Dreydel song.
Example of a Go Tell It on the Mountian with mostly correct lyrics for our version.
Choir performing Huron Carol for a live broadcast.
Example of Six White Boomers with lyrics.
Video of children singing Waltzing Matilda with the lyrics on the video.
An example of Joy to the World in a key close to the one we will use.
Sample of the Dreydel song.
Classroom Tools
Interactive timers, sound effects, and interactive templates for games, graphic organizers, and puzzles.
Useful visual for mindful breathing.
Calming video with music and art to help students settle.
Employment Related
Direct link to teacher's email login.
Homepage of the South Shore Regional School Board. Contains useful links to PowerTeacher, email, events, forms, technology support, etc.
A virtual resource where Nova Scotia teachers can find curriculum documents and subject resources.
NS Teacher Certification Requirements
List of undergraduate courses required to obtain an "Initial Teaching Certificate" in the province of Nova Scotia.
General Classroom
Full Grade 3 Curriculum Resources
A catalogue of materials related to specific topics covered in Grade 3. Very easy to navigate and provides worksheets and age appropriate materials for teaching each topic.
Large compilation of Reader's Theatre Scripts.
Interactive crosswords, word searches, or typing activities related to different themes.
Grade 3 Math
Great resource for a variety math worksheets.
Engaging measurement unit appropriate for the Grade 3 level with lots of worksheets and activities.
A great resource for math worksheets.
A list of children's books related to math organized by topic.
Third Grade Math Teaching Routine
A video of an engaging Grade 3 math class. This video outlines the routine the math teacher follows which involves kinaesthetic, visual, and aural learning.
Several math games for Grade 3 students.
Ordinal Numbers - Creepy Crawly Calypso
Cute song and video featuring ordinal numbers.
A blog full of ideas for teaching math with a hands-on approach.
Health
A great activity to encourage your students to be kind.
A simple card game used to teach about empathy.
Engaging drawing activity to have students discuss and express feelings.
Neat visuals from the movie Inside Out related to feelings.
A depot of free inspiring movie clips sorted by theme.
Movement
Images of a variety of poses that could be used for creative movement activities.
A compilation of students friendly songs to use for brain breaks.
Excellent resource for movement activities and brain breaks. Provides your class with their own character who will grow as you complete activities.
Movement - Youtube Link
Great Just Dance for primary classes.
Cute reindeer dance video for primary music.
Christmas - Just Dance Santa Clones
A very fun Just Dance with Santa dancing to Christmas music of various styles, such as surf, rock 'n' roll, and country.
Halloween - Just Dance This is Halloween
A challenging techno Just Dance video.
Halloween - Just Dance Banana Boat Song
A compilation of a variety of dances demonstrating the elements of dance.
Halloween - Spooky Scary Skeleton
Halloween - Just Dance Thriller
YouTube video of choreography for Justin Timberlake's Can't Stop the Feeling.
Halloween - Just Dance Monster Mash
Halloween - Just Dance This is Halloween
Great Just Dance video for energetic Elementary School students.
Great beginning of the school year video for movement and form.
Halloween - Just Dance Time Warp
Christmas - Crazy Santa Dance Video
A very silly dance video.
YouTube video of choreography for Meghan Trainor's Better When I'm Dancing.
Music - YouTube
Orff - In the Jungle Orff Performance
Students performing an Orff arrangement of In the Jungle.
Song - Four Chord Song by a School
A video of a school doing a four chord song performance using classroom instruments and their voices.
Video demonstrating a rhythm and form activity using the song Fireflies by Owl City.
Rhythm - Bucket Drumming School Performance
A video of a school performing a bucket drum routine.
A video demonstrating a great drum activity for drum or percussion circles.
Rhythm - Sesame Street Hand Clapping Song 1972
Great video of Muppets performing a rhythmic ostinato.
African Music - Eunoto Ceremony
A ritual held only every 7 years in Kenya / Tanzania that demonstrates rhythmic ostinatos occurring throughout people's everyday life.
Spooky animation of Der Erlkönig by Franz Schubert.
History - The Evolution of Music Pentatonix
A great a cappella medley of songs throughout music history.
African Music - African Influenced Boomwhacker Piece
A video of a large group doing a performance with Boomwhackers of a traditional African piece.
A video demonstrating a fun singing and clapping game.
A compilation of warmup activities fun for girls and boys.
African Music - Spirit of Africa
A video tribute to Africa featuring African music and animals.
Spooky - Silly Symphony Haunted House
A short video featuring lots of sound effects appropriate for Halloween.
Melody - Humorous Do, Re, Mi Song
A somewhat cynical solfege video.
Play Along With - Pirates of the Caribbean
A simple video allowing students to play Boomwhackers or hand bells along with a recording of Pirates of Caribbean.
A video of a great song activity for learning names.
History - Behind the Scenes with Frozen
A video of making the music from "Frozen."
An awesome video demonstrating a body percussion ostinato.
African Music - The History of African Music through Song
A video compilation of African music throughout history.
A very fun warmup preparing students to sting Dona Nobis Pacem.
A video demonstrating how to play the rhythm game "Pass the Beat Around the Room."
Funny version of the Muppets singing the Do, Re, Mi song from the Sound of Music.
A video demonstrating how to sing and play the hand clapping song "Green Sally Up."
African Music - Vintage African Drumming Footage
A video of African drumming along with footage of dancing.
Rhythm - Over Under Clapping Game
A video demonstrating a kinaesthetic beat keeping game.
Play Along With - Harry Potter
A graphic score students can follow along with using classroom instruments to accompany a song from Harry Potter.
New Years - Happy New Year Around the World
Neat video showing different cultures and how and when they say Happy New Year.
African Music - Jumping Ceremony
A very short video clip of an African Jumping Ceremony.
A video series explaining some of the basic musical concepts in a funny and engaging way.
Video demonstrating a kinaesthetic approach to listening to Beethoven through passing a ball.
Play Along With - Back in Black
A video for students to play along to with classroom instruments.
African Music - Hand Clapping Game
Very short clip of a hand clapping game.
Recorder - Popular Music Compilation
A funny medley of popular songs performed on recorder.
History - A Journey Through Rock and Roll
A compilation of rock and roll songs.
Spooky - Silly Symphony Skeleton Dance
A great cartoon for around Halloween. Can be used as influence for a spooky class soundscape.
An episode of Magic School Bus that takes place in a haunted house exploring how sound is made.
Nine minute video from the BBC explaining what harmony is and providing lots of examples of harmony throughout history.
Simple African that students could sing and play.
Warmup - I'm Alive Awake Alert
An energetic vocal warmup that involves singing and movement.
African Music - Call and Response
A video demonstrating call and response in African music.
History - Classical Music Mashup
Neat visual showing the score of multiple classical music pieces being layered over one another.
A graphic score for students to follow along with on classroom instruments to accompany "Let it Go."
Orff
Orff orchestration of Yellow Submarine.
Simple Orff orchestration for the song Lion Sleeps Tonight.
Recorder
A blog sharing how one music teacher facilitates recorder karate in her classroom.
A recorder arrangement of a simple recorder piece.
An Orff arrangement of Mambo Mary BAG.
Rhythm
Rhythm Cards - ta, rest, ti-ti
Rhythm flashcards using ta, rest, and ti-ti.
Excellent lesson plan for using Dr. Seuss's Hand Hand Fingers Thumb book for teaching rhythm.
Rhythm play along for the song Sleigh Ride.
Pokemon rhythm activity.
Science
Grade 3 Science Curriculum Document
This old Nova Scotia Grade 3 Science Curriculum provides lots of ideas for teaching Grade 3 Science that are still included in the new curriculum. There are also applicable worksheets included in the Appendices.
Excellent website compiled by a Canadian Grade 3 Teacher, including fact sheets, worksheets, experiments, and labs.
Social Studies
Simple card activity to identify what a right and responsibility is.
A neat autobiography project for students to create their own map of an island based on their interests.
A fantastic compilation of lessons and activities related to teaching about Mi'kmaq culture in Nova Scotia schools.
Fantastic resource for geography featuring mapping worksheets for learning about cardinal directions, legends, map reading, etc.
A Canadian resource for educating about Terry Fox.
Free template for creating a book to demonstrate how every city is part of a province, that is part of a region, that is part of a country, that is part of a continent, that is part of the world.
A resource for teaching young students about good citizenship.
The Rights and Responsibilities of a Child
A site with cards featuring the rights and responsibilities of a child.