Check out this section for some great free downloads, including teaching aids and musical gizmos! If you have any teaching aids that you would be willing to have included in this section, just drop us an e-mail telling us what you have.

Materials Based on Music from K-8 Magazine

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From Meredith Inserra: A script to a "Haydn Press Conference"

From Gail Noullet: Singing aid to "The Friendly Beasts", in Word format, Landscape setting. (Moved to the Music K-8 section)

Squirrely things from Martha Stanley! Powerpoints to go with "Hop, Old Squirrel", "Let Us Chase the Squirrel", and "Grey Squirrel, Grey Squirrel"

More Martha Stanley: Powerpoints to go with the following songs: "Over the River and Through the Woods", "Rattlin' Bog", and "Jingle Bells".

From RaeAnna Goss: A powerpoint to go with "Rattlin' Bog"

From RaeAnna Goss: Two song arrangements with actions: Monkey and Alligator (You will need Finale Notepad to view. To download, go here)

From Becky Luce: In PDF Format, a handout for Pass the Pumpkin. (Can also be used as an overhead)

From Patricia Oeste: A Powerpoint of the history of the Star Spangled Banner

Stuff to go with the great book: The Remarkable Farkle McBride:
A Powerpoint from Patricia Oeste: (This is a big file, so be patient:-)
A story poem from an Orff session by Elissa Reichstein (in Microsoft Word), plus a recorder arrangement (you will need Finale Notepad)

From Laurie Zentz: Voice cards. Directions for best use: Put on card stock and laminate. Zip file includes clap cards and voices.

From Karen Stafford: A Powerpoint on a brief summary of the history of the musical. BIG zip file includes sound clips.

From James Morgan: Powerpoints! A zip file includes powerpoints for "My Flag" and "The Star Spangled Banner." Also: a Powerpoint for "Road to Freedom".

From RaeAnna Goss: An activity for the song "Peter Rabbit", in PDF format.

From Christopher Saraga: Recorder compositions, complete with MIDI's, zip compression. Includes "High Barbary" and "Tue, Tue", along with a set of the lituragy.

From Sue White: 5 Sequential powerpoints on Bach. (all in zip files)

From Sandy Toms: Three Instrument Worksheets in PDF or Word

From Anne Lyon: Powerpoints!
A Woody Guthrie Powerpoint
Home on the Range History

From Pamela Rezach: Sound and music: great for science AND music teachers! Teacher's answer book and student's workbook included in zip file.

From Susan Coleman: A powerpoint on Ella Fitzgerald

From Carol Podwils: A Stephan Foster powerpoint

From Linda Barnhart: A recorder powerpoint designed for the beginning recorder student.She uses it to introduce recorder to her 3rd graders and for students that come into the year and don't know recorder to help them catch up. The zip files include sound clips (that may have to be re-embedded)

From Susan Coleman: A powerpoint on Rossini

From RaeAnna Goss: A powerpoint that teaches the names of the staff using a story.

From Christopher Saraga: Original BAG music! "My Grandmum's 50's Handbag" and "That 70's Bag", in a zip file with PDF notation and MIDI files. AND, a BAG composition book in PDF format.

From Sandy Toms: A worksheet for the video Mr. Bach Comes to Call (PDF Format)

From RaeAnna Goss: A nice assortment of winter Powerpoints from K-8 songs!
Snow Is Falling Today
Bubble Wrap
Snowpants
Gift for Santa

From Christopher Saraga: Student BAG composition songbook, plus his original assignment sheet.(Songbook in PDF and assignment sheet in Word, all zipped, so you'll need a 'decompressor')

From Sue Michiels:A history timeline in PDF. She enlarged it as a poster four times bigger than it is and then pasted composers names or titles of music at the appropriate time in history when introducing it to upper grades. The students really like the time reference. It seems to make it more relevant to them.

From Sue Michiels: A Powerpoint on Musical Terms

From Sue Michiels: a powerpoint she made for a professional development presentation . It is based on the California standards which are based on the National Standards

From Joyce Beesley: An awesome Powerpoint on Peter and the Wolf and instruments. Even includes a Jeopardy game at the end!

From Becky Olson: Two STOMP activity sheets: Grading Rubric and Process Sheet (Both in PDF Format)

From Sue Michiels: An numbered guideline of African Polyrhythms (saved in PDF Format)

From Nora Hampton: A Powerpoint to go with "Pilgrims", Vol. 11, Number 2 of Music K-8.

From Kate Boonstra: A Powerpoint to go with "Turkey Woogie" from Music K-8 Vol 14 No 2. (In a zip file.)

From Lydia Benbrook: An "Over the River" Powerpoint!

From Christopher Saraga: Aracangelo Corelli (It is from a Christmas Concerto). The piece is for three recorders. The recorder 1 part is to be played by the teacher, or an advancedstudent (and can be played on the flute, or piano, or violin). The recorder 2 and 3 parts are to be played by the students. Click here for the zip file that includes the orchestration and MIDI file.

From Pam Rezach: A Nice Variety!
Listening Worksheet in pdf format.
Her directions for making a recycled keyboard. (PDF)
A non-traditional staff approach with several images and explanation sheet (in zip format)

From Greta Probst: A copy of her full curriculum and curriculum for Music Appreciation and Choir. All in PDF format.

From Tami Mangusso: Year long lesson plan outline, based on an original outline by Beth Spreen Jahn.Click here for PDF files.

From RaeAnna Goss: Two activities for the younger set: Alligator and Frog and Monkey in a Tree. You will need Finale Notepad do open this.To download this free, click here.

From Anne Lyon: A Powerpoint to go with K-8's Whacky Do, Re, Mi. Click here

From Gretchen: Word Wall Word templates, by grade 3-6: Click here for zip PDF files. Click here for zip Word files.

From Karen Stafford: A Powerpoint on instruments of the orchestra, with sound clips (you may have to adjust the path to these clips on your own computer, depending on where you store them.) Zip file.

From Melanie: Seating chart template. Click here for Word. Click here for PDF.

From Bev Noell: Cards to go with the Music Monopoly bulletin board. Click here for Word. Click here for PDF.

From Dee Truelove: Music lesson plan templates. Click here for Word. Click here for PDF.

From Gretchen: A great template to use to make recorder fingering charts! Click here for Word. Click here for PDF.

A beautiful Powerpoint presentation from Patty Oeste for America the Beautiful. Click here.

From Kristin Lukow: A Scrabble bulletin board with musical terms, do scale, and other neat musical things! Click here for the Word version. Click here for the PDF version.

From Susan Michiels: A condensed version of the K-5 level standards from LAUSD, put in plain simple English. Click here for the Word document. Click here for PDF file.

Recorder Digits is a Windows 9x/NT/ME/2000 program designed to display and document recorder fingerings.
In default mode, it displays standard and alternate fingerings for alto, soprano/tenor, and bass recorders. It was developed by Richard Hureau.
The program also has the ability to Load external fingering files. Because of this, the program is not limited to displaying only the fingerings that are built-in. It gives any user the ability to change the fingerings that the program displays. Additionally, it is hoped that people will create fingering files and distribute them for use with the program. For example, a person could create a file with the fingerings specific to a particular model of recorder.
Download the zip file.

From Tess Hoffmann:A Powerpoint plus MIDI for "Aquarium".
*Dowload Separately: Powerpoint      MIDI
*Zip file

From Karen Stafford: Instrument cards that can be printed and used for Concentration or other games. You will need an unzip utility to open these. Best use: get printable index cards to print them out.
Zipped file with Word documents
Zipped file with PDF documents (you will need Adobe Reader for this)
Also from Karen: Composer cards for the same purpose!
Zipped Word
Zipped PDF

From GT: Notes and info on American Theater (two sets) Set 1 and Set 2. (PDF Format. Make sure you have Adobe Reader)

A listening map mother lode from Renovia McKinney! Includes both Word and PDF of the following: Harry Potter, Superman, and Jurassic Park. Just click here for the zip file. To extract, you'll need an unzip program like WinZip or StuffIt Expander.

The Powerpoint king (Dale!) does it again with a great presentation for I Love My Country.

From Dale Mize: A beautiful Powerpoint presentation to accompany "American Tears" from Music K-8 Magazine, Plank Road Publishing.

AND, a newly updated "American Tears" powerpoint, also by Dale, that includes a wide variety of scenes on what makes America great,and what Americans fight for and weep for.

Dale has also made an "I Love My Country" powerpoint.

From Patricia Oeste: A powerpoint presentation on opera.

From Sue White: A Beethoven review on Powerpoint.

From Tracy : A Christmas Carol Bingo Card. Just click to download the PDF card. (You'll need Adobe Reader.)

From Holly Hodeen, a worksheet to accompany the video "Beethoven Lives Upstairs".
  Word Document (right click and save)
  PDF Format

Orff arrangements, courtesy of Bill Fatch! To open these, download the free Finale Notepad.
The Arrangements:
Carol of the Bells
Los tres Santos Reyes
Chick-a-Li-Lee-Lo
Peace Round

Thanks to Pamela Rezach for a video listening sheet to go with the video "The Orchestra", narrated by Peter Ustinov. You may download this as:
A Word Document (just right click and save)
A pdf file

A very, very neat piano screen saver, courtesy of Piano World. It features 18 slides from the book Piano by David Crombie. You will need a zip utility after downloading. Download here.

From Karen Stafford: Questions used at her centers. (For more information on centers, click here.) Zip file containing Word documents for keyboard centers, computer centers, listening centers, game centers, creativity centers, and reading centers. Click here.

Rubrics from Karen Stafford. Download:
  Recorder performance rubric
  Vocal performance rubric

A Danse Macabre listening map that goes great with the Halloween season, straight from Deborah Jeter. Just click here to open the image, then right click on the image and choose "Save As".

From Mark Green: An ostinato pattern goes with “Turn the Glasses Over” from Making Music, in PowerPoint.Click here.

From Todd Hansen: Questions to go with "The Magic School Bus and the Haunted Mansion". Word format. Right click here and choose "Save As".
Another worksheet from "The Haunted Mansion". This one is from Holly Hedeen, in PDF format.

From Christy Block: A lesson plan template. This is great to reproduce and put into a three-ring binder. It is set up so you can outline the grade, format, objectives, vocabulary, and check off the national standards achieved!
For PC's: To save in Word format, right click and select "Save As". (Or left click and let it run)For PDF's to read in Adobe, just download!
Lesson Plan Template: Word Format
Lesson Plan Template: Adobe PDF Format

Wendy Schlenker is sharing a Powerpoint presentation on music advocacy she has used with her district.Included are slides on how to make music with your child, how music connects to the regular subject, and more. Click here to download.

We're just willing to bet your kinder-crew loves "Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom!" Denise Gagne has provided a pdf file of the chant in rhythm to help you out with this!

If you have the new Charlie Brown "Music and Heroes of America" video, here's a great worksheet from Connie Hebron that you can use!

PDF Format (if you have trouble downloading the regular way, right click and choose "Save Target As" or "Save Link As".)

Taco Bell Canon-by Emmie Weed
Get those middlers going at the beginning of the year with this! Click on the link, then right click (for PC's) to "Save Image (or Save Picture) as"....then save it to your computer!
Just use the bottom line to make up your own simple accompaniment to be likePachelbel Canon - F Major, C major, D minor and so on. Sounds good in unison, 2 part, and 4
part.Emmie has used it with 3rd grade and up.The words are:
Lots of cheese and some sour cream, then lettuce,
salsa, don't forget the refried beans, add
fajita, fajita, fajita, fajita, fajita, fajita,
fajita, fajita. Taco salad (x8). Guacamole
Guacamole.

Recorder Test Rubric by "Heather"

Simple and quick....this will make recorder assessment a snap!

Download the PDF file (You will need Adobe Reader).

Prairie Circle Overhead-from Renovia McKinney

A color transparency for the musical for and the dance form of "Prairie Circle" that's included in the Hal Leonard series "Canadian Folk Dances." You may download it in two different methods:
Word 97 Document

PDF Format (will require Adobe Reader)

Desktop Themes!
Entertain your kids with these cool music desktop themes. Click on each link to start download. Includes (in general): wallpaper, screensaver, sounds, pointers, icons.
Benny Goodman (attributed to Yuri).
Louis Armstrong (attributed to Phocus)
Beauty and the Beast (Broadway) theme (attributed to Phocus)-.zip file
Beauty and the Beast(Broadway) matching screen saver (also attributed to Phocus).zip file
Miles Davis (Man in Green Shirt Theme) (attributed to Robert Siders)

PowerPoint Flash Cards
Brenda Williams has developed some great PowerPoint cards to help with notes on the staff!

Download Notes on the Staff Powerpoint Slides

PowerPoint Recorder Lesson
Todd Hansen has developed some wonderful PowerPoint slides to use with beginning recorder, complete with pictures of proper position. This is a great tool to have up for kids while the teacher is working with someone else!

Download Recorder PowerPoint Slides

Listening Maps
Mary Flynn has several great listening maps she had done for a class she's taking,and she is generously offering to share them! Just click on your chosen link below, and pick your map! To save, right click and pick "Save As". You can also download the whole kit-and-Kaboodle in a zip file!

Bandinerie-Bach

Fur Elise-Beethoven

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy 1

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy 2

Galop by Kabelevsky

Instructions 1

Instructions 2

Instructions 3

Complete Zip File