đ Music Teacher Grades 7 - 12 đ Welcome! Iâm Kim Maloney, creator of MusicTeacherResources. My objective is to provide you with a range of quality, classroom-ready resources. Resources for busy teachers who want the best for their students, and to spend more quality time with the people they love the most!
đ Music Teacher Grades 7 - 12 đ Welcome! Iâm Kim Maloney, creator of MusicTeacherResources. My objective is to provide you with a range of quality, classroom-ready resources. Resources for busy teachers who want the best for their students, and to spend more quality time with the people they love the most!
Students work on research, technology, reading, comprehension and writing skills as they research the life and music of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
There are TWO different activity sheets and TWO versions of each. These are designed to suit different ages/abilities.
There are TWO versions of the first activity sheet. They are THE SAME except for the way the students access the internet to obtain the answers. One uses clickable links to the sites containing the answers, and the other, QR codes.
WHATâS INCLUDED:
This activity sheet contains SIX questions about the life and music of the composer.
An ANSWER sheet is also included!
Depending on the technology available to you in your classroom, the student(s) will click on the links provided OR use a QR reader app to scan the QR code.
Students are to read the information on the website/s to find the answer to the questions.
There are also TWO versions included for the second activity sheet. It has been designed as an independent mini-biography research project.
Students will research FIVE-SIX facts about the composer and record them in the graphic organizer. They will then write an informative paragraph about the life and music of the composer.
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Music Word Search using music symbols.
The puzzle contains the name of 21 commonly used music symbols.
PRINTABLE FORMAT Print and hand it out.
ABOUT THIS RESOURCE:
This resource contains two versions of the same puzzle, one using North American terminology and the other using British terminology.
Students need to know the name of the 21 music signs/symbols to discover the words hidden in the word search.
An answer sheet is included for each puzzle.
This type of activity is excellent as a revision of theory concepts studied, assessment or for days when you are away from the classroom.
PLEASE NOTE: This puzzle is also available in a pack of 12 music puzzles
A content packed, valuable resource that is complete and ready to go!
Suitable for: Years 7-11
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Spice up your Christmas period lessons or sub-lessons with an activity to review note and rest values.
This set of fun and engaging Rhythm Review worksheets will keep students engaged while reinforcing their theory knowledge.
The following versions are provided, giving you the ultimate flexibility:
Landscape, portrait, color, black and white!
PRINTABLE FORMAT: Just print and laminate them for individual, small-group, or whole-class activities. Single pages and TASK CARDS included.
DIGITAL FORMAT: Google slides, color and black and white task cards!
WHATâS INCLUDED:
24 Portrait Printable worksheets (single pages, both colored and black & white)
24 Landscape Printable worksheets (single pages, colored, black & white). This set has different maths equations!
Google slides version
Task Cards
Student response/answer sheets in color and black & white
Teacher answer sheet - single page
Colored answer sheets for both the landscape and portrait versions to project
Teacher Tips and Ideas page
The 24 worksheets include the following:
TEN (10) addition worksheets with an image to color and
TEN (10) subtraction worksheets with an image to color.
These worksheets vary in difficulty so that they can be used with different grade/ability levels.
There are also FOUR worksheets for students to create their own music maths worksheets to share with their music peers/friends.
Have students create a music maths worksheet to exchange with another student.
The student who created the worksheet is also the one who will correct the completed worksheets
This is an excellent activity for higher-order thinking!
Designed to reinforce studentsâ knowledge of note and rest values
The activities become progressively more complex and can be used for several grade levels or differentiation within a class.
A content packed, valuable resource that is complete and ready to go!
Suitable for: Years 7-11
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This fun set of Christmas-Themed Music Theory worksheets provides a variety of supplemental practice exercises for your music class.
WHATâS INCLUDED:
This PDF file contains 24 worksheets covering the following music concepts:
Names of Notes and Rests (4 worksheets but TWO versions. One set using North American terminology and the other using British Terminology)
Treble Pitch
Bass Pitch
Alto Pitch
Music Signs and Symbols
Perfect to use as cover lessons!
Suitable for: Years 5-8
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Music Classroom SOLFEGE Posters KODALY/CURWEN Hand Sign are an excellent visual reminder for students. They are a colorful display in your music room or on your bulletin board.
PRINTABLE FORMAT! There are 13 PRINTABLE posters to laminate and display on your music classroom bulletin board.
WHATâS INCLUDED:
This resource includes 13 posters for the following Kodaly hand signs:
do
ti
la
ti,
la,
so and so,
sol and sol,
fa
mi
re
do
The poster size is 8.5"x 11" in portrait orientation in PDF format.
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Music Classroom SOLFEGE Posters KODALY/CURWEN Hand Sign are an excellent visual reminder for students. They are a colorful display in your music room or on your bulletin board.
PRINTABLE FORMAT! There are 13 PRINTABLE posters to laminate and display on your music classroom bulletin board.
WHATâS INCLUDED:
This resource includes 13 posters for the following Kodaly hand signs:
do
ti
la
ti,
la,
so and so,
sol and sol,
fa
mi
re
do
The poster size is 8.5"x 11" in portrait orientation in PDF format.
CHECK OUT the PREVIEW to see a lot more!
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You may also like this Music Posters with Kodaly/Curwen Hand Signs - Set 2
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Music Classroom SOLFEGE Posters KODALY/CURWEN Hand Sign are an excellent visual reminder for students. They are a colorful display in your music room or on your bulletin board.
PRINTABLE FORMAT! There are 13 PRINTABLE posters to laminate and display on your music classroom bulletin board.
WHATâS INCLUDED:
This resource includes 13 posters for the following Kodaly hand signs:
do
ti
la
ti,
la,
so and so,
sol and sol,
fa
mi
re
do
The poster size is 8.5"x 11" in portrait orientation in PDF format.
CHECK OUT the PREVIEW to see a lot more!
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You may also like this Music Posters with Kodaly/Curwen Hand Signs - Set 3
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Are you teaching a recorder unit? Decorate your music classroom and help support student learning with this clear, colourful set of recorder-fingering posters.
The posters/charts will help reinforce correct fingering and treble pitch note recognition.
There are 41 PRINTABLE pages to print, laminate and display.
Perfect to use as music classroom decor for your music classrooms!
WHATâS INCLUDED:
There is a chart/poster for every pitch from middle C to A above the staff â including #'s and bâs, for the Baroque Soprano Recorder.
Each poster includes the letter name, a visual of the fingering, and the note position on the staff.
The poster size is 8.5"x 11" in portrait orientation in PDF format.
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Are you looking for an engaging resource for your Film Music unit that focuses on listening to and analysing the elements of music and has a film scoring composition project to complete the unit?
This Music in Film mini-unit focuses on listening to and analyzing the elements of music with a film scoring composition project to complete the unit. Teaching slides, student worksheets, composition activities and links to videos are included.
WHATâS INCLUDED:
The resource contains 26 printable pages that can be printed individually or combine to create a student workbook. Includes the following :
information on the purpose and function of music in films,
questions requiring studentsâ written response,
images for the student to respond to using music terminology and
a film scoring composition project!
Lesson procedure overview for FIVE lessons to help present the content to your students.
PLEASE NOTE: An answer key is NOT included, as student responses will vary.
A content packed, valuable resource that is complete and ready to go!
Suitable for: Years 7-11
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These music composer research activities are excellent as a springboard into listening activities/lessons, a music history unit, or a research study into a particular composer/era.
You will find this a great resource to have because it can be used in so many ways:
a class research task,
set as an assignment,
homework or
left as a cover lesson when you are away.
WHATâS INCLUDED
A TEACHER TIPS page is included!
TWO composer research activity worksheets.
Students are given 2-3 clues on a composerâs identity, and they
must then research who it is and writes their name in the right-hand
column.
Once the first research task is completed, students are then to
enter the composersâ names and other required information in the
table in chronological order.
An Answer key is provided for teachers!
**These activities are excellent as a springboard into listening activities/lessons or a unit on composers or as a research study into a particular composer/era. **
A content packed, valuable resource that is complete and ready to go!
Suitable for: Years 11-15
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Are you teaching Key Signatures?
This resource will help you teach key signatures with ease! Teaching slides, student worksheets and short assessment quizzes are included.
**FORMATS AVAILABLE: **
This resource is a ready-to-print PDF worksheet. Suitable for: Years 7-11
WHATâS INCLUDED:
The 37-page file contains:
Teaching slides
Student quizzes
Student worksheets
Answer sheets
These pages will guide students to discover ALL major and minor key signatures!
CONTENT includes:
The order of sharps
The order of flats
How key signatures are drawn in both the treble and bass clef
Relative keys
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Introduce your students to The Blues with these informative and engaging written and research activities.
WHATâS INCLUDED:
THREE (3) Information/teaching slides
THREE (3) Student note-taking pages
ONE (1) Word search with answer sheet provided
THREE (3) Writing activities
THREE (3) Written Research tasks
ONE (1) Listening Compare and Contrast task
ANSWER SHEETS provided where needed
These activities can stand alone as a study of Blues music or be used in conjunction with practical exercises where the students learn to play the Blues!
PRINTABLE FORMAT. Print off the studentâs response pages individually or combine them to create a student workbook.
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Music Decor: DYNAMICS POSTERS Set 1
Decorate your music classroom and reinforce music vocabulary
Each poster features the symbol, name and a brief definition
There are ELEVEN dynamics posters: included in this file:
â« fortississimo
â« fortissimo
â« forte
â« mezzo forte
â« pianississimo
â« pianissimo
â« piano
â« mezzo piano
â« crescendo
â« decrescendo
â« sforzando
Print off, laminate and use to decorate your music classroom/studio.
These beautifully presented music room rules posters are colorful classroom decor.
Displaying them on your bulletin board will help remind students of class rules in a positive and visual way.
PRINTABLE FORMAT. Print, laminate and display on your classroom bulletin board.
WHATâS INCLUDED:
There are 5 PRINTABLE posters to print and display on your classroom bulletin board
There is one poster/page for each letter in the word MUSIC and one rule per letter.
M - Make wise choices so you and others can learn.
U - Use good manners and be respectful of others.
S - Speak, sing and play when directed by your teacher.
I - Involve yourself in all activities.
C - Care for others and the music equipment.
-The poster size is 8.5"x 11" in landscape orientation
WHAT TEACHERS HAVE SAID:
âThese posters were the perfect way for me to communicate the rules for my classroom! Using the M.U.S.I.C. acronym made it easy for students to remember what my expectations were. I keep these posters at the front of my room for the entire year, so there are no excuses when I need to correct behaviour :)â (Karen V.)
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Music Decor: DYNAMICS POSTERS Set 2
â Decorate your music classroom and reinforce music vocabulary
â Each poster features the symbol, name and a brief definition
â There are ELEVEN dynamics posters:
â« fortississimo
â« fortissimo
â« forte
â« mezzo forte
â« pianississimo
â« pianissimo
â« piano
â« mezzo piano
â« crescendo
â« decrescendo
â« sforzando
â Print off, laminate and use to decorate your music classroom/studio.
Modulation in music can be a difficult concept for some students to grasp. This is why I have created this resource!
It takes the students step by step through an easy method of understanding modulation and how to incorporate it into their composition work.
This resource makes teaching modulation easy. With explanation slides, examples, student worksheets, practical activities and answer sheets, students are guided to understand this often confusing music concept step-by-step.
This 26-page file that covers modulation in MAJOR KEYS only, to the dominant, subdominant and relative minor keys.
The file contains:
FIVE exercises ask students to write out the dominant, subdominant and relative minor of a given key and state the accidental/s that need to occur.
A teaching slide explaining V7 chords
ONE page of exercises where students name and notate the V7 chord of the specified keys
Teaching slides to explain pivot chords
FOUR pages of exercises where students discover and name the common chords of the specified keys. Two methods for finding the common chords are explained.
ONE page example/explanation for completing the practical exercises.
FOUR written and practical activities where students create and perform an 8-bar progression that modulates.
ANSWER KEYS for the student exercises are provided.
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If you are teaching transposition, this product would be a valuable addition to your resources!
This file contains:
â« teaching slides
â« a student note taking page
â« transposition exercises
â« answer sheets
This resource would suit middle school/junior high school students.
Students work on research, technology, reading, comprehension and writing skills as they research the life and music of composer Camille Saint-Saens.
There are TWO different activity sheets and TWO versions of each. These are designed to suit different ages/abilities.
There are TWO versions of the first activity sheet. They are THE SAME except for the way the students access the internet to obtain the answers. One uses clickable links to the sites containing the answers, and the other, QR codes.
WHATâS INCLUDED:
This activity sheet contains SIX questions about the life and music of the composer.
An ANSWER sheet is also included!
Depending on the technology available to you in your classroom, the student(s) will click on the links provided OR use a QR reader app to scan the QR code.
Students are to read the information on the website/s to find the answer to the questions.
There are also TWO versions included for the second activity sheet. It has been designed as an independent mini-biography research project.
Students will research FIVE-SIX facts about the composer and record them in the graphic organizer. They will then write an informative paragraph about the life and music of the composer.
Ideal for differentiation in your classroom! Double click on the images above for a closer look of whatâs included in the resource!
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You may also like this MUSIC COMPOSITION: A Step by Step Approach
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This collection of 12 RHYTHM Theory worksheets now contains 13 RHYTHM worksheets!!
âȘâȘ***BONUS*** âȘâȘ Rhythm of 21 U.S. States has been added to the original 12 worksheets!
Students are to match the name of the given words to the correct rhythm.
Perfect for beginners!The worksheets are for beginners, with the beats of each rhythm adding up to 2 only.
Each rhythm worksheet has an answer sheet and a sheet showing the divided syllables with accents marked. Each rhythm sheet is based on a different topic.
Each rhythm worksheet has an answer sheet and a sheet showing the divided syllables with accents marked. Each rhythm sheet is based on a different topic.
Topics include:
Fruit
Harry Potter
Ice cream flavors
Hamburgers
Transport
Chocolate bars
Sport
Countries
Music instruments
Hats
Fast Food joints
Music Styles
** BONUS** - Halloween
Excellent for reinforcement or revision. You can never have too many of these types of worksheets!
Suitable for: Years 2-5
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This set of 12 RHYTHM worksheets actually contains 13 RHYTHM worksheets!!
Students are to match the name of the given words to the correct rhythm.
The worksheets are for beginners, with the beats of each rhythm adding up to TWO only on all but one worksheet.
Each rhythm worksheet is based on a different topic.
Topics include:
â« Breakfast
â« Christmas
â« Cities
â« Musicals
â« Groundhog Day
â« Music
â« Jobs and Occupations
â« Nature
â« The Human Body
â« Winter
â« Thanksgiving
â« Superheroes
â« Halloween
An answer key is provided for ALL 13 rhythm worksheets
Excellent for rhythm reinforcement or revision and well as developing vocabulary. You can never have too many of these types of worksheets!