Worksheets & Lesson Ideas 

• DRUM Project -- Students create their own drum circle piece using nursery rhymes
• STOMP Composition -- Students create their own stomp like composition
• Storm Composition -- Students create a storm by using found sounds (dynamics lesson)
• Syncopated Song Composition -- Students compose their own piece using a syncopated rhythm
• Telephone Composition Worksheet -- Students create their own composition using parts of their telephone number
• Write a Blues -- Students write their own blues songs
• Instrument of the Orchestra Presentations -- In groups, students teach about the 4 instrument families
• Instrument Modification Project -- Students modify an existing instrument
• Listening Map for "In the Hall of the Mountain King"
• My Rhythmic Creation
• Mysterious Ticking Noise -- Students perform this youtube classic.  Follow up activity: Have students write their own rhythmic name ostinato.
• Theme & Variations -- Listening activity for any theme and variations piece
• American Composer Project -- Students "attend a concert" for: John Williams, Leonard Bernstein, and Aaron Copland, then write a review
• Draw the Melody - Worksheet that goes along with 4th grade "How Melodies Move 2" SMARTBoard Lesson
• Note Naming Worksheet #1 - Students have to "spell" words by putting notes on the staff
• Note Naming Worksheet #2 - Students have to find B, A, and G's and then draw 10 of each.