The Toolbox currently features grade-specific music education resources addressing fundamentals of rhythm, meter, singing, form, dynamics, articulation, tempo, pitch, and performing.
Students explore call and response songs through singing.
Students create a class composition of a thunderstorm by exploring expressive qualities of crescendo/decrescendo and accelerando/ritardando
Students create different versions of a known song and listen to contrasting recordings for musical differences and similarities.
Students compose and notate short melodies using their names.
Students compose and notate short 4/4, 3/4, and 6/8 rhythms across multiple class periods.
Students compose and notate short rhythms in 4/4, 3/4, and 6/8 meters across multiple class periods.
Students create and perform melodic contours.
Students play an identification game of hot and cold using their voices and dynamics.
Students explore expressive qualities in music through listening, singing, and moving.
Students explore the sound, evolution, performance techniques, and culture of guitar-like instruments from around the world.
Students create movements to represent long and short rhythmic patterns and compose patterns using non-traditional notation.
Students explore phrases in poetry and in song.
Students explore steady beat and instruments of the percussion family.
Students explore expressive qualities through various string techniques.
Students listen to and describe sounds.
How can we identify the tempo of music through movement? Students demonstrate the expressive quality of tempo through movement.
Students explore healthy posture through storytelling and observation.
Students use language and movement to explore accents in music.
Students use samba rhythms and percussion to improvise in rondo form.
Students use their singing voices to take turns improvising and creating melodic phrases on a given theme.