Classroom Music Games and Activities

This collection willl help you teach music basics whether you have a music degree or no formal music training.   Students will identify musical notation and terms, recognize instruments, and more!   Reinforce lessons from other subjects, such as language arts and critical thinking, with cross-curricular elements. As students grasp the basics, you can move on to activities that are more difficult or adapt the activities to include new material. The activities in this book can get your students up and moving or provide them with fun ways to work at their desks. Mix and match whole-class, group, and individual activities to create entertaining lesson plans, and watch your students have a blast learning music basics!

Contents

• Whole-Class Activities (17)
• Small Group Activities (17)
• Individual Activities  
• Music Scramble
• All in One
• Little Box
• It's Instrumental
• Fishing for Families
• Sally Saxophone Wants a Snare Drum
• A Career in Music
• Straighten It Out!
• Who's Who?
• Rake the Leaves
• Musical Maze
• Take a Hike
• The Hidden Path
• Spell and Search
• Notespeller
• Crossword
• Building Dynamics
• Picture This
• Color by Symbol
• Music Sudoku
• I Spy a Sign (and More)
• Composer
• Connect the Dots
• La Mer
• Carnival of the Animals
• A Very Verdi Day
• Can You Handel It?
• Crack the Code
• Musician Portrait Gallery
• Musician Mix
• Album of the Year
• Music Throughout the Ages
• Answer Key