Lesson Zone™ Elementary Music Lesson Plans from MakingMusicFun.net

Music Lesson Plans for Meter and Time Signature

Browse lesson plans that teach students about meter and time signature through movement and get your music students smiling from ear to ear.

Chomp! Shark-Themed Music Lesson Plan - Time Signature Grade 2-4 Beat Tag | Music Lesson Plan - Meter Game Grade 2-5 Meter, Meter, 3-4-5 | Music Lesson Plan - Time Signatures/Playground Balls Grade 2-4

Music Lesson Plans for Music Dynamics

Browse lesson plans that teach students dynamics through manipulative-based lessons and games.

Boom Chicka Boom | Music Lesson Plan - Piano and Forte Grade K-1 Musical Easter Egg Hunt | Music Lesson Plan - Dynamics Grade 1-6

Music Lesson Plans for Music from Diverse Cultures (World Music)

Browse lesson plans that teach students about music and cultures from around the world.

Aiken Drum | Music Lesson Plan - Unit Wrap-Up Grade 1-3 Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks | Music Lesson Plan - ABA Form Grade 1-2 Hungarian Dance No.5 | Music Lesson Plan - AABBCDAB Codetta Grade 2-6 In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) | Music Lesson Plan - Listening Map Grade 2-6 Messiah/Hallelujah Chorus (Handel) | Music Lesson Plan - Listening Map Grade 2-6 Surprise Symphony (Haydn) | Music Lesson Plan - Listening Map Grade 3-4 Peter and the Wolf | Music Lesson Plan - Leitmotif Grade 1-3 Viennese Musical Clock | Music Lesson Plan - Rondo/Dance Grade 2-3

Music Lesson Plans for Listening (Listening Maps and Listening Glyphs)

Browse lesson plans that teach students about music with listening maps and glyphs, or give them a chance to compare and contrast musical scores with Venn diagrams.

O Danny Boy | Music Lesson Plan - Compare and Contrast Grade 2-4 Surprise Symphony (Haydn) | Music Lesson Plan - Listening Map Grade 3-4 In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) | Music Lesson Plan - Listening Map Grade 2-6 Messiah/Hallelujah Chorus (Handel) | Music Lesson Plan - Listening Map Grade 2-6 John Williams | Film Score Music Listening Glyph Worksheets Grade 2-6 Star Wars (John Williams) | Music Listening Glyph Worksheets Grade 2-6 Jurassic Park (John Williams) | Music Listening Glyph Worksheets Grade 2-6 Indiana Jones (John Williams) | Music Listening Glyph Worksheets Grade 2-6 The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky) | Music Listening Glyph Worksheets Grade 2-6 Kangaroo from Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saëns) | Listening Map Grade 2-6 Monster-Themed Music Lesson Plan Pack | Lesson Plans, Worksheets, and More Grade K-5 Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Bach) - Form/Listening Map Grade 2-4 Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Bach) | Music Listening Glyph Worksheets Grade 2-6 Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev) | Music Listening Glyph Worksheets Grade 2-6 Circus Music (Entry of the Gladiators) | Music Listening Glyph Worksheets Grade 2-6 Royal March of the Lion (Carnival of the Animals) | Music Listening Glyph Worksheets Grade 2-6

Music Lesson Plans for Movement

Browse lesson plans that teach students about music through movement.

Bow Belinda | Music Lesson Plan - Contradance Grade 2-4 John Kanaka | Music Lesson Plan - Eighth/Quarter Note and Quarter Rest Grade 2-4 Run From The Farmer | Music Lesson Plan - Syncopation Grade 2-3 Trashin' the Camp/Tarzan | Music Lesson Plan - AABA Form Grade 2-3 Viennese Musical Clock | Music Lesson Plan - Rondo Grade 2-3

Music Lesson Plans for Instruments of the Orchestra

Browse lesson plans that teach students about the instruments of the orchestra.

Zin, Zin, Zin A Violin | Music Lesson Plan - Orchestra Instruments Grade 2-6

Music Lesson Plans for Musical Style

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Music Lesson Plans for Famous Composers

Browse lesson plans that teach students about the lives, music, and culture of our most famous composers.

Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (Mussorgsky) | Music Lesson Plan - ABA Form Grade 1-2 Do-Re-Mi (Richard Rogers) | Music Lesson Plan - Solfege Grade 1-3 Flight of the Bumblebee Game (Rimsky-Korsakov) | Music Lesson Plan - Unit Wrap-Up Grade 1-3 Gymnopedie (Erik Satie) | Music Lesson Plan - Same/Different Grade 1-3 Hungarian Dance No.5 (Brahms) | Music Lesson Plan - AABBCDAB Codetta Grade 2-6 In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) | Music Lesson Plan - Listening Map Grade 2-6 Messiah/Hallelujah Chorus (Handel) | Music Lesson Plan - Listening Map Grade 2-6 Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev) | Music Lesson Plan - Leitmotif Grade 1-3 Surprise Symphony (Haydn) | Music Lesson Plan - Listening Map Grade 3-4 Viennese Musical Clock | Music Lesson Plan - Rondo Grade 2-3

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Music Lesson Plans for Same/Different (Compare/Contrast)

Browse lesson plans that teach students to compare and contrast musical scores.

Gymnopedie (Erik Satie) | Music Lesson Plan - Same/Different Grade 1-3

Music Lesson Plans for Music Composition

Browse lesson plans that provide students with an easy introduction to the world of music composition and an opportunity to compose their own music.

Down by the Bay | Music Lesson Plan - Composing and Drawing Grade K-1 Pizza Man, Pizza Man | Music Lesson Plan - Composing Music Grade 2-4 Star Wars Rap | Music Lesson Plan - Composing Music Grade 2-4

Music Lesson Review Games

Browse our lesson plan review games for the music classroom that are flexible enough to allow you to review a wide variety of lessons.

Slap Happy Music Math | Music Lesson Plan - Rhythm Review Grade 2-6 Suck It Up! Music Lesson Review Game Grade 2-6 Tic-Tac-Toe | Music Lesson Plan - Rhythms and Rests Grade 2-6