Music Resources, mainly for the Edexcel GCSE and A level specification, to prepare students for exams.
Compositions resources, piano skills, elements of music and theory.
Music Resources, mainly for the Edexcel GCSE and A level specification, to prepare students for exams.
Compositions resources, piano skills, elements of music and theory.
A worksheet that works well as a lesson starter. A scavenger hunt that tests musical knowledge and basic theory.
This is the free version. The version with 5 different scavenger hunts can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12690056
A resource in Spanish.
Learn piano from scratch with these 17 worksheets. Made for students to consolidate their knowledge with checklists.
-Uses solfege system (do re mi fa sol la si )
-Learn the notes of the piano and the stave
-flats and sharps
-rhythm exercises
-warm up exercises
-Tones and semitones
-Hand position
-The scales and chords of C major, G major and F major.
Un recurso en Español.
Aprende piano desde lo mas basico con estas 17 paginas. Hecho para estudiantes con metas para tachar en cada leccion.
-Usa el sistema de solfeo (do re mi fa sol la si )
-Aprende las notas en el teclado y en partitura
-bemoles y sostenidos
-Ejercicios de ritmos
-ejercios para calentar
-tonos y semitonos
-posicion de manos
-escalas y acordes en Do major, Sol mayor y Fa mayor.
This is the free version. For the extended version with more ideas and templates for students to use:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pbl-host-a-christmas-talk-show-extended-project-12445769
With Christmas around the corner, who doesn’t like to have Christmas themed learning activities?
Host a Christmas talk show. A fun group activity that can be done in school or through home learning. Encourage students to research, work independently, work in teams, be creative and enjoy learning about different Christmas traditions.
Host an interview
Make decorations
This or that games
Bake snacks
Have an ‘awards’ ceremony
Organise live music
Students can go off track and add anything they might enjoying preparing.
The project can be delivered as a live performance, video recording, Poster presentation or written plan.
Spanish Resource:
6 page pdf document with activities for students who want to study the book of Proverbs in the Bible. An introduction with the background of Solomon and the idea of ‘wisdom’.
Activities include reading Bible verses, drawing, planning a social media post and answering questions.
Recurso en Español:
Documento PDF de 6 páginas con actividades para estudiantes que desean estudiar el libro de Proverbios en la Biblia. Incluye una introducción con el contexto sobre Salomón y la idea de la ‘sabiduría’.
Las actividades comprenden la lectura de versículos bíblicos, dibujos, planificación de una publicación en redes sociales y respuestas a preguntas.
6 page pdf document with activities for students who want to study the book of Proverbs in the Bible. An introduction with the background of Solomon and the idea of ‘wisdom’.
Activities include reading Bible verses, drawing, planning a social media post and answering questions.
A spinner wheel template to fill in with whatever topic you want. Print, colour and cut out. Assemble with a split pin.
4 spinner wheels with different Bible topics:
The 10 commandments
The fruit of the Spirit
The armor of God
The 7 days of Creation
Un recurso en espanol:
Un spinner wheel en blanco para rellenar con cualquier tematica. Imprime, colorea y recorta. Monta con un pasador.
4 spinner wheels con diferentes tematicas de la Biblia:
Los 10 mandamientos
El fruto del Espiritu
La armadura de Dios
7 dias de la Creacion
A resource in Spanish:
A spinner wheel template to fill in with whatever topic you want. Print, colour and cut out. Assemble with a split pin.
4 spinner wheels with different Bible topics:
The 10 commandments
The fruit of the Spirit
The armor of God
The 7 days of Creation
(Spanish resource)
PDF con 18 páginas para estructurar ideas y avanzar hacia un proyecto musical.
Plantillas para la composición de canciones
Generar ideas
Planificar un video musical y una sesión de fotos.
Presupuesto y colaboración
Planificar redes sociales
Diseñar una portada de CD
Consejos para la composición y grabación de canciones
ESPANOL:
Un PDF con 8 paginas para usar eficazmente el tiempo de ensayo.
Consejos para ensayar
Plantillas para anotar el tiempo dedicado
Plantillas para analizar otras actuaciones.
8 page booklet in Spanish with different tasks to help students keep track of their progress in performance and practise in a productive way.
Pages include:
Tips on how to practise.
Different areas to work on.
Practice checklist
Practice diary
Ways to analyse others’ performances.
Questions for reflection
Works for any exam board, for GCSE and/or A level Music. Many tips taken from marking schemes.
A composing task in various steps:
Choose the key
Find out the chords
Find out the cadences
Compose an 8 bar chord sequence
Add a melody
Repeat with a contrasting set of chords.
These 9 worksheets follow a methodical approach that gives students a rounded knowledge of harmonising melodies.
A powerpoint presentation in pdf format.
Resources to use for the teaching of accidentals and key signatures.
Powerpoint in PDF and pptx formats.
Worksheet to fill in with the powerpoint, includes a homework task at the end and student assessment ‘how well do I know what we have learnt today?’ Word and PDF formats.
2 videos explaining how to figure out key signatures for sharps and flats.
Exercises in worksheet taken from Bridging the Gap to GCSE Music. ( Zig Zag Education)
Video in powerpoint from RIAM Teaching and Learning network:
A booklet with 11 pages on the life of Cleopatra. Booklet includes:
Fact file
Questions
Essay task
True or false
Vocabulary list
Activities
Spanish version:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12646903
3 worksheets: Elements of Music, The Blues, Popular Music. Unscramble the words and match them to the definitions. A good lesson starter or revision exercise.
2 Sheets, one for rhythmic dictation and one for melodic dictation. Tips for students to put into practice when preparing for the dictation section of the exam. Geared towards Edexcel GCSE and A level, but can also be used for any examining board.
This is the extended version of the tasks with more ideas and templates that students can use for each section.
With Christmas around the corner, who doesn’t like to have Christmas themed learning activities?
Host a Christmas talk show. A fun group activity that can be done in school or through home learning. Encourage students to research, work independently, work in teams, be creative and enjoy learning about different Christmas traditions.
Host an interview
Make decorations
This or that games
Bake snacks
Have an ‘awards’ ceremony
Organise live music
Think of charities and ways to encourage solidarity.
Students can go off track and add anything they might enjoying preparing.
The project can be delivered as a live performance, video recording, Poster presentation or written plan.
A guide for students to use while they are composing. Covers different elements of music, different composition structures and how to access higher band marks.
A complete lesson on the elements of music to deliver to a Key Stage 3 class including:
a powerpoint
a worksheet for students to complete while following the powerpoint
the same worksheet with the definitions already written to allow for differentiation.
a lesson plan
a homework activity: analyse the elements of music in a song of the students choice. this also has an extended task, again for differentiation.
a group activity: compose a birthday song.
A powerpoint with 51 slides in pptx and pdf covering different aspects of Victorian music, composers from the era, musicals set around this time and inventions.
Eg. Oliver, My Fair Lady, Sweeney Todd, Gilbert and Sullivan, A Christmas Carol.