Essential Listening Activities for the Music Classroom

Essential Listening Activities for the Music Classroom

Ready-to-Use Lessons and Games for Grades PreK-8

By Eric Branscome
Book
92 pages
For PreK-grade 8
Supplemental resource for music teachers, home school teachers, or general education instructors who wish to incorporate music into their lessons.The enjoyable learning games and activities in this collection, presented in a lesson plan format, have been selected for their ease in instruction and flexibility. Easy-to-use templates are also included for most lessons along with instructions on making manipulatives to supplement the lessons. The fun and creative lessons range from exploring instrument sounds to learning activities and maps for favorite classical music pieces such as Carnival of the Animals and many more! Each activity is designed to work as an extension to and/or from another lesson.

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Instrument Sounds
  • Blind Bach Boogie: K-grade 4; Rhythm instruments
  • Dizzy Does It: ;K-grade 2; Ratchet, slide whistle and whistle
  • Elimination:; K-grade 3; Rhythm instruments
  • Texture:; grades 1-5; Instruments (noise makers)
  • Jingle Bell Roll:; K-grade 4; Jingle Bells
• Knowledge of Instruments
  • Clue:; grades 2-5; No instruments needed
  • Treasure Chest:; K-grade 4; No instruments needed
  • Bank Robber:; grades 2-6; No instruments needed
• General Listening
  • Prism Puzzle:; grades 1-4; No instruments needed
  • Dictation House:; K-grade 1; Keyboard or Melody instrument
  • Duck Flap:; K-grade 1: Slide whistle
• Classical Music Examples
  • Musical Maids:; K-grade 3; No instruments needed
  • Music's Many Moods:; K-grade 4: No instruments needed
  • Music & Art Correlation:; grades 3-6; No instruments needed
• Listening Maps
  • Toy Symphony (Leopold Mozart, attributed to Franz Joseph Haydn): K-grade 3; No instruments, needed
  • Pictures at an Exhibition (Modest Mussorgsky, orchestrated by Maurice Ravel):; grades 2-6:; No, instruments needed
  • "The Moldau" from Ma Vlast (Bedrich Smetana):; grades 3-5; No instruments needed
  • Carnival of the Animals (Camille Saint-Saens):; K-grade 3; No instruments needed
  • Tone Poems (Richard Strauss):; grades 2-6; No instruments needed
  • Also Sprach Zarathustra (Richard Strauss):; grades 2-4; No instruments needed
  • The Nutcracker (Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky):; K-grade 3; No instruments neededPeter and the Wolf (Sergei Prokofiev):; K-grade 3; No instruments needed
• Appendices & Templates
• Appendix A: Instrument Card template
• Appendix B: "Texture" template
• Appendix C: "Clue" template
• Appendix D: "Treasure Chest" template
• Appendix E: "Prism Puzzle" template
• Appendix F: "Dictation House" template
• Appendix G: "Music's Many Moods" template
• Appendix H: "Toy Symphony" template
• Appendix I: "The Moldau" templatE
• Appendix J: "Carnival of the Animals" template
• Appendix K: "Also Sprach Zarathustra" template
• Appendix L: "The Nutcracker" template
• Appendix M: "Peter and the Wolf" template
• Appendix N: Classical Tunes for Listening/Performance Activities