Hello and Welcome to my shop! I have a mixture of resources based on my experiences. Mostly, you will find resources for the Primary-Curriculum which have been developed in accordance with my experience teaching Primary. Secondly, you will find music-related resources developed in accordance with my musical training (BA Music - Oxford University). Finally, you will find GCSE A-Level appropriate resources that I developed when I was a student. I hope you will find something of use to you. :)
Hello and Welcome to my shop! I have a mixture of resources based on my experiences. Mostly, you will find resources for the Primary-Curriculum which have been developed in accordance with my experience teaching Primary. Secondly, you will find music-related resources developed in accordance with my musical training (BA Music - Oxford University). Finally, you will find GCSE A-Level appropriate resources that I developed when I was a student. I hope you will find something of use to you. :)
A collection of five fact file writing frames based on woodwind instruments. Fact file writing frame for each of the following woodwind instruments: flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, saxophone.
Prompt questions asked to help children construct their fact file including:
description of the instrument
why the instrument is woodwind
how the instrument makes a sound
key features of the instrument
history of the instrument
a question about the instrument
There is also space for students to draw an image and label the different parts of the instrument.
Great activity for developing student’s writing, encouraging independent research, and as a way of producing a revision resource or consolidating student’s knowledge.
Worksheet designed to help children learn the names of different woodwind instruments. The names of five woodwind instruments are provided with their letters scrambled up. Children can solidify their knowledge of woodwind instrument names by unscrambling the words and practise their spelling by putting the letters in the right order.
Great starter or plenary activity.
Wordsearch covering five woodwind instruments and key features of woodwind instruments. This activity helps develop spelling and knowledge of key words associated with woodwind instruments.
Great starter or plenary activity.
**Lesson two in a 6-part unit of work on musical instruments and instrumental families. ** This lesson covers the woodwind family.
The aim of this unit of work is to enable children to learn about music and musical instruments without the requirement of any specialist music teacher, prior musical knowledge, or practical music resources like instruments.
This lesson covers the woodwind family. The following topic areas are covered in the lesson: recap of instrumental families, introduction to woodwind family and woodwind instruments, walk-through of individual woodwind instruments, comparing woodwind instruments. The flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and saxophone are discussed in this lesson.
The lesson is structured as a detailed presentation. Questions are asked throughout to help engage students’ attention and allow them to have an active part in their learning. Activities are also involved in the lesson to help students consolidate their knowledge. Activities include the following:
mind map activity
poster-making/ advertising activity
written fact-file activity
Creative design activity
Colour is used throughout to aid memory. Animations and transitions are used throughout to engage attention but they are used subtly so as to not become overwhelming or overstimulating.
Lesson One of a series of 6 lessons designed to teach children about musical instruments and instrumental families
Lesson one focuses on an introduction to different musical instruments and instrumental families with lessons 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 going into more detail on each individual instrumental family.
The idea of these lessons is to enable children to learn about musical instruments, instrumental families, and music more generally without the need for any specialist musical knowledge or practical music resources like instruments.
Lesson consists of a presentation and two worksheet packs. One worksheet pack on musical instruments and the other on instrumental families. There are more worksheets and activities as is necessary for one lesson to allows teachers and support staff to choose the most appropriate worksheets/activities for your students, and to allow the activities to cover a range of lessons and circumstances if need be. Some worksheets would make great starter / plenary tasks.
Presentation covers each of the instrumental families in brief detail, covering key features of each, instruments belonging to each family. It also explains how instrumental families are assigned and why. Activities and questions are embedded throughout the presentation to encourage students to have an active part in their learning. Animations and colour are used in a subtle way to engage children’s attention without being over-stimulating.
Worksheets involve a range of activities including: wordsearches, riddles, times tables, cut-and-stick, colour coding, unscrambling, matching, reading, and writing activities. Total of 15 worksheets included with answers where appropriate. Worksheets presented in a friendly manner with musical borders, simple instructions, and some images.
Combining times tables, music, and coding. All the letters of the alphabet are given a number. Students have to solve the simple times table sum to work out the letter to spell out the names of different instrumental families. Times table up to 12X included.
A writing based activity to create a fact file about instrumental families. Skills involved: writing, reading, and memory recall. Children are given a short paragraph about each instrumental family in turn but with unfinished sentences. Children are to complete the sentences to create a fact file about instrumental families.
Example as follows: "I am the woodwind family. Instruments in my family include… I am normally made of … Some features of the woodwind family are… "
Names of different instrumental families are given but with their letters scrambled up. Children are asked to unscramble the letters to work out which instrumental family is being named. The first letter of each family is left capitalised as a starting point.
Worksheet framed in a child-friendly manner by creating a character “Oli Owl” who is making and instrument inventory but got his letters muddled. Worksheet invites children to help “Oli” write his inventory by unscrambling his letters.
Answers provided on a separate sheet.
Designed to consolidate student’s knowledge of key features of instrumental families. A reading activity where students are presented with a short paragraph describing an instrumental family and they are asked to decide which instrumental family is being described. Answers provided on a separate sheet.
Great starter or plenary activity.
Colour coding worksheet encouraging children to think about different musical instruments and decide which instrumental family they belong to. 24 musical instruments given with instructions to colour-code the instruments based on whether they are in the woodwind, brass, string, keyboard, or percussion family. Answers provided on a separate sheet.
Great starter or plenary activity.
Cut and stick worksheet on instrumental families. Children are given 24 different musical instruments and a table with the following four sections: woodwind - brass - percussion - strings. Children are to cut out the 24 musical instrument names and organise them into the correct place in the table. Aim to help children recall and learn the name of different musical instruments and which instrumental family they belong to.
Great starter or plenary activity.
Wordsearch covering keywords relating to instrumental families and properties of instrumental families. 18 words to find in the wordsearch. Answers are provided on a separate sheet. Wordsearch is laid out in a family manner, with some images, musical border and space between the letters. Words to find are given at the bottom of the page.
Great starter or plenary task. Useful for encouraging children to recall the names of different instrumental families, their properties, and learn their spellings in a fun and relaxed way.
Could maybe have a class competition to see who can complete the wordsearch the quickest?
Lesson One: Introducing Musical Instruments and Instrumental Families - Worksheet Pack
Worksheets to accompany lesson one of a 6 lesson unit of work looking at musical instruments and instrumental families. The idea is to teach children about these key areas without needing any specialist musical knowledge or practical music resources like instruments.
7 worksheets included in the pack each covering a range of different activities including:
Wordsearch
Unscrambling activity
Cut-and-stick activity
Colour coding activity
Times table activity
Written fact-file activity
Riddles activity
Worksheets used best in conjunction with the presentation “Introducing Musical Instruments and Instrument Families - Lesson One” - also available.
Worksheets presented in a friendly format with a music themed border. Answers provided for each activity where appropriate.
Great starter or plenary activities, but could also be used within lesson to consolidate knowledge. Worksheets could supply a number of different lessons or the whole pack could be given at once to encourage children to structure their own learning and manage how and when they complete activities.
**Lesson one is a series of six lessons on musical instruments and instrumental families. **
This presentation covers lesson one which focuses on introducing the different instrumental families and briefly covering which instruments would be included in those instrumental families and key features of those instrumental families.
The idea behind these lesson is so that children can be taught about music even without having access to musical instruments or a music specialist. Lessons do not require pupils or staff to have prior musical knowledge to be taught and understood.
Focus is on: names of musical instruments, names of instrumental families, key facts and features of musical instruments and instrumental families.
Instrumental families included: woodwind, brass, strings, percussion, keyboard (keyboard has been used a separate category to avoid confusion between whether pianos are string or percussion - this is explained)
Questions are spoken tasks are included throughout to engage pupil’s attention and allow them to have an active part in their learning.
Mind-map tasks interspersed throughout the second half of the presentation and the presentation finishes with a suggestion for two tasks to consolidate knowledge: a research based task, and a worksheet based task (corresponding worksheets available separately).
Colour is used to aid memory and learning. Animations are used to allow for questions to be asked and answered, and to engage pupil’s attention but animations are subtle so as to not be over-stimulating.
A collection of worksheets based around the names of different musical instruments. A range of activities and skills included in the worksheets including:
Wordsearch
Times table problems
Unscrambling words
Solving riddles
Matching activity
Identifying instruments by their image
Acrostic poems
This worksheet collection could serve multiple lessons on musical instruments. Individual worksheets would work well as starter or plenary activities to either summarise learning, or remind students of what they learned previously, but they could also be used as consolidation activities within lessons after teaching.
The worksheet collection could also be used as an independent / paired activity where children could receive all the sheets in a booklet and work through them at their own pace.
Answers provided on separate sheets for all activities where appropriate.
Worksheet designed to challenge children to learn and recall the names of musical instruments through the unscrambling of letters. Answers provided on a separate sheet.
Worksheet is laid out in a friendly-manner. Framed in such a way to encourage the children to complete the work by giving a back-story about a character Oli Owl who has mixed up his letters in his musical instrument inventory. Worksheet invites the children to help Oli write his list out again.
First letter of each instrument is left a capital as a starting point for each answer.
Useful for learning musical instrument names, practising handwriting, practising spelling. Great starter or plenary task.
Times Table Problem Solving sheet based around musical instruments. Simple times table sums using times tables up to and including 12x where each answer corresponds with a letter and the letters go together to spell out the names of different musical instruments. Eencourages children to apply their maths and times table knowledge whilst also learning and consolidating knowledge of musical instrument names.
Two worksheets included with answers.
Great as a starter or plenary activity.
Worksheet to allow pupils to create their own acrostics poem using the word “instruments”. Great for encouraging children to reflect on musical instruments they know, as well as facts surrounding music and musical families more broadly. Great for encouraging writing and spelling of musical instruments and key musical terminology.
Worksheet where pupil’s can match the musical instrument pictures to the correct musical instrument name. Great starter or plenary activity. Encourages children to identify musical instruments by sight and name.
Worksheet focused around the names of different musical instruments. Images of 10 different musical instruments are provided along with a list of 10 musical instrument names. Children must decide the name of each instrument in the picture, choosing the correct name from the list.
Great starter or plenary activity.
Designed to encourage children to identify musical instruments by sight and know their names.
