Carnegie Hall: Music Educators Toolbox Resources
(www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Programs/Music-Educators-Toolbox/Resources)
Grades K-5, with parental supervision
Discover a variety of music lesson plans and resources at this page from the larger Carnegie Hall website.
Plans are arranged by grade level and focus on the fundamentals of music including “rhythm, meter, singing, form, dynamics, articulation, tempo, pitch, and performing.” Each plan provides all the needed information and resources to use in the classroom as well as downloadable assessments and more. A sampling of plans includes:
- Exploring the Sounds Around Us – Kindergarten students listen to a selection of audios and use a downloadable, colorful worksheet to identify the sounds and then answer thought-provoking questions to increase sound awareness.
- Dynamics Hide and Seek – First graders will enjoy playing this variation of the “Hot and Cold” game. Instead of using “hot” or “cold,” students sing either forte or piano to help the seeker locate the hidden object and learn these musical terms.
- Classroom Thunderstorm – Kids in second grade will enjoy learning musical terms such as accelerando, ritardando, crescendo, decrescendo and accent while creating a human thunderstorm with sounds they create.
- Goldilocks Sings – Third graders learn how posture affects their singing using the characters from Goldilocks and the Three Bears as examples.
- Listening for Contrasts in Genre – Students in fourth grade discover how expressive musical qualities in music work together like a recipe to create different genres of the same song.
- We’ve Got the Blues – Fifth grade children learn about the unique facets of blues music focusing on musical scales.
Even though the plans are geared towards a specific age group, they could be adapted for other grades and can serve as a supplement to any music program.
