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 Rhonda Schilling: A Jeopardy Hip Hop Game and questions

From Iris Ingram: Lyrics and vocabulary list to "The Stars and Stripes Forever" (in pdf format)

From Martha Stanley: The "L Rule" poster (in pdf format) is a document that may be posterized and laminated and posted on the left wall of your classroom. It offers a
left hand, a large "L", and the words "low, large, long, loose, left." Students refer to it to figure out right and left hands, which side of the instrument is the low one, etc. Use the L-Rule to figure out many things.

From Karen Stafford: Her detailed handouts from her January 2005 Missouri Music Educators Presentation "Dealing with the "Tweens". Included are details on several Randy and Jeff activities, Creative Blasts, Road Trip rap, and other projects that work well with grades 4-6. (PDF format)
Part 1-Concentrates more on vocal and performance
Part 2-Instrumental and creativity

From Sandra Toms: A worksheet and listening activity for Swan Lake (in ZIP format, which unzips to two PDF files and a Word document)

Two activities from Rhonda Schilling: "Steppin" and "Step Drums" (PDF Format)

From Dale Mize: A story sequence adapted for Peter and the Wolf (in Microsoft Word format)

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

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

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

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

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. (This file is temporarily unavailable. Stayed tuned!)

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

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

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 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.

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

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 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".

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!

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.

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)

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

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