Other (Music) Assessment

On January 28th, 1985, dozens of the time period’s most popular musicians gathered in Los Angeles to record a charity song for African famine relief. Setting stylistic differences and egos aside, they collaborated on a song that would make history. This documentary, which debuted at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, examines how the song came to be, who was involved, and the implications of the recording.

This Doc (printable OR digital) asks students 9 thought-provoking questions for during and after viewing the film. This is NOT a guided viewing assignment; it's a series of thought-provoking questions that asks them to consider the film as a whole and to synthesize what they might already know about these musicians and the event with what they saw in the film. They are asked about the title, the lyrics to "We Are The World", the impact of the event, who planned the event and why, the artists who participated, the arrangement of the recording, the public's response, the impact of the song during this particular time period, etc.

I use this with my high school elective "Lyrics as Literature" with 9-12th graders, but I'd feel comfortable using it with upper middle school students as well.

Getting your students to improve on rhythm and melody can't be any easier with "Boom and Response"!

In this resource, there are 3 tracks totally 5 minutes that you can play for your students (and repeat if necessary). Each track is a specific amount of beats for the "Call" (4 beats, 6 beats, or 8 beats) with the same amount of empty beats that follow directly after -- and thats where you students submit their "Response"

You can utilize this in one of several ways:

1. Assign boomwhackers to your students and have them play the response (any mixture of rhythms and beats) back to you directly after they hear the call
2. Individually listen to each student as they compose their OWN response after they hear the call
3. Assign TWO boomwhackers per student and have them play a melodic response to the "Call" they heard
4. Separate kids into chordal groups for Boomwhackers (C Major, F Major, G Major, etc) and have each chord take turns during a response (C Major goes first... then F Major can go next, G Major next, and so forth)
5. Ask them to utilize dynamics (piano and forte, crescendo and diminuendo, throughout their response) on their Boomwhackers

Or any other crazy way you may think!

Have a great time with this!

Your assignment sheets don't have to be boring! Check out these Winter-Themed 3-StringGuitar Assignment pages you can use with your Guitar students throughout the winter months!

Each page includes a space for:

• The date of the lesson
• A Chord or Scale to work on for the week
• A 5-Line staff
• A 3-Line TAB
• 5 Chord Boxes
• 7 icons for students to color for each day they practice.

This assignment sheet set includes 5 different icons so you can pick and choose which ones you want to use, or you can use all 5 of them! These icons include:

• Snowflakes
• Trees
• Winter Hat (or Beanies)
• Snowmen
• Cup of Hot Cocoa!

Please note, while the resource is reproducible, only the original purchaser may duplicate the pages for their students. The resource is not transferrable to others, but we ask you to refer other people here to purchase their own set.

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Catalog: MTP-3GWAS-DG

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Help your students confidently bridge the gap between reading music and playing it on the piano with this engaging "Connect the Staff to Piano" worksheet activity! Designed specifically for beginners, this resource provides a fun and interactive way for students to practice identifying notes on the staff and matching them to their corresponding keys on the piano.

What's Included:

• Treble Clef Worksheet: Notes on the staff on the left side, with a piano keyboard on the right. Students connect each note to its correct key.
• Bass Clef Worksheet: Similar format, focusing on notes in the bass clef.
• Answer Keys: Provided for both treble and bass clef worksheets to make grading easy and efficient.

This activity is perfect for individual practice, homework assignments, or as a classroom learning station. It reinforces note recognition and keyboard geography, laying a solid foundation for future music reading and playing skills. Whether you're teaching piano lessons or general music classes, this resource will help students build essential connections between written music and the piano keyboard.

End of the year review or just starting up with aural theory? Try on "Inspector Interval"!

In this fast paced game, students will do a brief review of how a musical interval is defined and jump right into the contest -- have an interval on the treble clef staff appear and TEAM A or TEAM B will have to name the interval as fast as they can!

There are no qualities of intervals (major 2nd, minor 6th, etc), just interval names by itself. There will always be a grounded "F", so the intervals will be built on top of that

We usually play this game 'around the world' style. We start off on the left side or right side of the the room and the first two people stand up and you flash an interval on the screen. The student who gets the note correct gets to move onto the next child in the class while the other student sits. That student has to make their way through the entire class before being deemed champion... but they could be beat at ANY TIME! You can mix it up, left side, right side, boys/girls, etc. Kids get ultra competitive!

... or use it as an individual activity!

Your assignment sheets don't have to be boring!

Check out these Basketball-Themed 3-String Guitar Assignment pages you can use with your Basketball-loving 3-String Guitar students, or for March Madness!

Each page includes a space for:

• The date of the lesson
• A Chord or Scale to work on for the week
• a 5-Line staff
• a 3-Line TAB
• 5 Chord Boxes
• 7 icons for students to color for each day they practice.

This assignment sheet set includes 5 different icons so you can pick and choose which ones you want to use, or you can use all 5 of them! These icons include:

• Basketball Nets/Goals
• Basketballs
• Jerseys
• Sneakers
• Courts

Please note, that the resource is reproducible, only the original purchaser may duplicate the pages for their students. The resource license cannot transfer to others, but we ask you to refer other people here to purchase their own set.

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Catalog: MTP-3GBAS-DG

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Enhance your piano classroom with our Free Progress Tracking Poster designed to complement the Accelerated Piano Adventures Book 1 & 2: Comprehensive Student Guide & Vocabulary Review! This engaging poster is perfect for tracking student progress through Books 1 and 2 of the Accelerated Piano Adventures series.

Features:

• Visual Tracking: Students place a sticker on the poster each time they complete a unit, providing a clear visual representation of their progress and motivating them to advance through the books.
• Matching Design: The poster’s design complements the other products in my store, creating a cohesive look in your classroom.
• Easy to Use: Simply print and display the poster where students can easily see it. The sticker tracking system is simple and effective for keeping students engaged and motivated.

Benefits:

• Motivates Students: The visual progress tracking encourages students to keep moving forward and take pride in their achievements.
• Supports Organization: Helps both teachers and students keep track of which units have been completed and which are upcoming.
• Free Resource: This poster is a complimentary addition to your teaching toolkit, designed to work seamlessly with the paid guide.

Download this free poster today and give your students a fun and motivating way to track their success through the Accelerated Piano Adventures series!

The follow-up to "Rhythm Wind Up and PITCH!"
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This one will get the kids on their edge of their seats!

You will need 1 thing for this particular game:

• A sticky suction cup ball (or maybe a soft squishy ball)

The students will see a melody at the bottom of their screen and memorize the melodic direction or say it back in their head (just make sure the melodic is not sung out loud). They will then hear a musical example of an endless loop of melodic figures separated by 4 beats each in between rhythms. (Teacher will click the speaker icon to play)

Take a listen...

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One of the melodic figures will be the melody that is on the screen. AS SOON AS THEY HEAR THAT MELODY, they throw their suction cup ball at the target. The first kid who gets it correct is the winner (and make sure you advance the slide to make the target turn green) :)

Obviously, we cannot play this as a class because of

1. The amount of suction cup balls tossed at the screen would be insane

2. Team A v Team B would be a bit more competitive and only two balls would be launched at once

If you don't have a whiteboard/projection screen, you can alternatively have the students raise their hand when they hear it and choose the kid who has their hand up the fastest.

Have a great time with this fast paced game!

Looking for a summer-themed melodic or rhythmic composing activity for your students? We got you.

Need a customizable sightreading activity for your students? We got you!!

Blank Beat Cards allow you to work with your students on activities that require 12 beats such as composing, sightreading and more!

In this set of Blank Beat Cards, there are 12 suns on the page, oriented for 4 "measures" of 3/4 time signature. The resource includes the following colors to make the resource customizable for your school colors:

1. Multi-Color (Red, Yellow, Blue, Green)
2. Red
3. Orange
4. Yellow
5. Green
6. Blue
7. Purple
8. Grey (Ink-Friendly)
9. White (Ink-Friendly)

There are two pages of each color to make it easy for you to print this resource off double-sided with the colors you'd like to use.

Want to make these cards last? For longevity, you can print on thicker paper or card stock, and laminate the cards so you can use them over and over and over again!

This resource IS reproducible, but you may not share the resource with other teachers. Please share with them where you got it!

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Catalog: MTP-BB12A3-DG

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Reviewing the Percussion chapter with your kids and have discussed unpitched instruments? Pitched instruments and the accessory effects and how to play?

Try this interactive powerpoint that's full of fun with Percussion Jeopardy!

All new categories, all new answers! An authentic jeopardy game board with categories for:

Pitched Percussion

Unpitched Percussion

Percussion FX

Percussion Techniques (How to Play)

Students can elect to pick $200, $400, $600, $800, or $1000 answers. After clicking on the amount, the answer will appear on the next slide. Students (keeping in true Jeopardy! fashion) can answer in the form of a question

"What are Timpani Drums?"

"What are mallets?"

"What is a Piano"

After the money is awarded (You can split sides of your class, boys vs girls, class vs class, however you want it!), there is a link in the bottom right hand corner to go back to the title screen and game board.

After extracting the ZIP file, make sure to install the Jeopardy! font included, or else you'll see random characters all over -- not good eats!

Email me at jasonlitt@gmail.com or leave a comment if you have any questions. Happy Jeopardy...ing!

Let your students trim a tree and make it nice and colorful by reviewing their finger numbers!

This Christmas Tree Finger Number printable is a festive way to review finger numbers with your piano students bt coloring in a tree on the page.

The coloring page only uses 5 colors: Brown, Green, Red, Yellow, and Blue.

You can print this off and use it as a way to give extra practice at the end of lessons or even between lessons!

If you enjoy using this resource, be sure to tell your colleagues where you found it! The resource IS reproducible, but only the original purchaser has the right to duplicate it for their needs.

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Oh, the kids and this game. Well, might as well learn something? I cut out construction paper squares of the following colors: Purple, Blue, Yellow, Grey, Red, Orange, and Pink A FORTNITE character (or characters) are shown on the screen along with different rhythms in different colored boxes. Which colored box of rhythms goes with the character on the screen? Line up the syllables and find out! I mix it up by putting students into teams of 2 and letting them work through the activity or you can have them play individually by themselves. Or maybe even a race to the board to see which one is right (all you have to do is advance the slide and the answer will appear!) There are 9 different examples of rhythms. The kids will LOVE seeing Fortnite up in your room (and don't worry, this is ALL family friendly, no mentions of violence or weapons in here) :) HAVE FUN!

It's the most spook-tacular time of year and this resource is a great way for your students to prepare for spooky season and review rhythms and note values!

This freebie of the Spooky Word Rhythm gives you a preview of the full packet available by clicking here.

Included in this packet are Quarter Notes (Bat) and Beamed 8th Notes (Potion). In the freebie packet are two pages of student cards that have pictures and note values, and also two “posters” to show students on an easel or bulletin board. All you have to do is print, copy, cut, and go!

The full packet also includes 2 16th-1 8th patterns (Skeleton) and Beamed 16th Notes (Jack-O-Lantern). There are also ink-friendly versions of the cards and posters, as well as words and rhythms aside from the images and rhythms. As a bonus, there are also exit tickets for a quick assessment of students' knowledge!

Please note, while this resource is reproducible, only the original purchaser may reproduce the resource as needed and may not share with colleagues. You can direct colleagues here to purchase a copy of their own.

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This is a competitive solfege naming game in powerpoint format. The learning goal is for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students to name solfege hand signs as fast as they can. We usually play this game 'around the world' style. We start off on the left side or right side of the the room and the first two people stand up and you flash a note on the screen.The student who gets the note correct gets to move onto the next child in the class while the other student sits. Despite the previews, the solfege symbol has a blank below it, and on the next animation it will appear. That student has to make their way through the entire class before being deemed champion... but they could be beat at ANY TIME! You can mix it up, left side, right side, boys/girls, etc. Kids get ultra competitive, especially in 5th grade.

SET 3: Two Measure cards in 4/4 time using Quarter Notes, and Quarter Rests.

These flashcards are a great compliment to your resource library! Each set is 1 to 2 measures of a vast variety of rhythms to build sight reading, fluency, and rhythmic skills in the music classroom. The flashcards can be used in both the classroom and private studio setting. They are small enough for you to slip into a binder, or envelop if you are a traveling teacher! You can also slip these under a document camera, or stick them on a music stand for rapid fire reading with your kiddos!

For optimal durability, I recommend printing on heavier paper, cutting each section out, and laminating the cards. Binding is up to you, but you can hole punch and put them on binder rings, or have each set coil bound.

Included in these rhythm bundle are 25 resources that you can utilize in grades 3-6. Games, dictation, worksheets, races, and more are in this bundle as the resources discuss longer rhythmic patterns, sixteenth notes, triplets, and long durations of rests.

Definitely a semester filler in here, terrific for reinforcing your 2nd half of the year with some of your upper grades, and with 30% off when bundled together, it's a sale you can't beat!

Your assignment sheets don't have to be boring!

Check out these Dino-Themed Piano Assignment pages you can use with your Dino-loving Piano students!

Each page includes a space for:

• The date of the lesson
• A Chord or Scale to work on for the week
• a 5-Line staff
• 4-Octave piano keyboard
• 7 icons for students to color for each day they practice.

This assignment sheet set includes 5 different icons so you can pick and choose which ones you want to use, or you can use all 5 of them! These icons include:

• Parasaurolophus
• T-Rex
• Brachiosaurus
• Stegosaurus
• Velociraptor

Please note, while the resource is reproducible, only the original purchaser may duplicate the pages for their students. The resource is not-transferrable to others, but we ask you to refer other people here to purchase their own set.

Your support of a small business is appreciated!

Catalog: MTP-PDAS-DG

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Review your lines of the treble staff from EGBDF and FACE with "TAKE NOTE"

In this reproducible worksheet, there are 3 pages of exercises where students will identify the names of the treble clef letters from 1st line E to top line F.

TAKE NOTE 2.0 is a continuation of the first page

TAKE NOTE 3.0 is a treble clef note shown and the student will circle the answer they think is correct.

You may use this as an assignment, warmup, timed practice, or however way you see fit!

Your assignment sheets don't have to be boring!

Check out these Dino-Themed Ukulele Assignment pages you can use with your Dino-loving Ukulele students!

Each page includes a space for:

• The date of the lesson
• A Chord or Scale to work on for the week
• a 5-Line staff
• a 4-Line TAB
• 5 Chord Boxes
• 7 icons for students to color for each day they practice.

This assignment sheet set includes 5 different icons so you can pick and choose which ones you want to use, or you can use all 5 of them! These icons include:

• Parasaurolophus
• T-Rex
• Brachiosaurus
• Stegosaurus
• Velociraptor

Please note, while the resource is reproducible, only the original purchaser may duplicate the pages for their students. The resource is not-transferrable to others, but we ask you to refer other people here to purchase their own set.

Your support of a small business is appreciated!

Catalog: MTP-PDAS-DG

© 2024 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

Down, Set, HUT!

In Bar Line Blitz, student will see a meter with several beats of music – except the bar lines are missing to separate the measures from each other!

They will will see 2 or more line placeholders (small grey lines) in between notes. One of the placeholders is where the bar line should go… but which one is it?

Identify where the bar line should be placed and the correct area will illuminate
green if it is accurate!

Play team vs team, A vs B, or individually... and enhance it by playing some fun football music in the background (search NFL themes or college football fight songs on YouTube) ;)

There are 4 levels (4 quarters if you wish) of varying difficulties. The last quarter, they students will need to identify where it should be placed without any small grey lined hashmarks

Have a great time with this one!