BOOK GUIDES
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn is an award-nominated mystery that takes place in 18th-century Japan. These ideas and…
ACTIVITIES
Find creative ideas for a year-long seasonal tree bulletin board. This is a fun way to decorate your classroom all year…
TEACHING RESOURCE
The excerpted chapters three and four of the The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn can be used to entice students into reading…
Ideas and activities for reading Miss Nelson is Missing.
REFERENCE
Statistics on the educational system, teachers, students, graduation percentages, government spending, and more.
Help your students in approach tasks, brainstorm, and analyze with these tips.
CLASSROOM TOOLS
Student-Teacher Behavior Contract Using behavior contracts is an ideal way to support a positive learning environment…
WORKSHEETS
Reference these tips to improve the physical and emotional climate of your music classroom.
These tips to help your students learn the basics behind playing a musical instrument.
Distribute an article that gives discipline strategies and behavior management tips to use in the music classroom.
A detailed introduction to the popular Mexican musical style Introduce your students to mariachi music with this…
Introduce your students to the mariachi with this lesson.
LESSON PLANS
Introduce students to traditional Puerto Rican song and dance through a multicultural music lesson that uses Spanish.
This printable has the musical notation and wording for the traditional Puerto Rican song, A La Limon.
Use a music lesson that helps students understand drum rhythms, performing as a group, and improvising melodies from…
Use these instructions to make a guiro, a Central American percussion instrument, from cardboard.
Make a maraca from beans and a juice can.
Drums appear in almost all cultures. Learn to construct a tunable drum from a plastic soda bottle.
Use a printable that contains drum rhythms and an example of TUBS notation for Hispanic music.
Use a lesson that introduces the history of Peruvian and Bolivian panpipes and presents instructions for creating and…
Instructions for making a South American flute from PVC tubing.
Use a printable that contains scales for the panpipe.
Use a printable that contains two diagrams for constructing a panpipe.
Overview of Latin American music events and styles.
