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Lesson Zone™ music lesson plans and worksheet packs from MakingMusicFun.net make planning effortless!
Grab the Composing with Kids Scavenger Hunt Worksheet – to get started. Then jump into our free app to start creating your own masterpiece! Great for centers.
Discover lesson plan bundles that bring music to life and keep your classroom buzzing with excitement!
Build reading skills! Students identify keywords in the biography to complete the puzzle.
Stock your sub tub with ready-to-go lesson resources that even non-musical substitutes can teach confidently.
Print a composer coloring page, grab the crayons, and start the recording! These coloring pages keep kids focused while you introduce them to the classics.
Designed for the music classroom, our printable listening maps and listening glyphs turn listening to music into a visual learning experience.
Drill the facts in the Hey Kids, Meet the Composer biographies with our free composer crossword puzzles.
Our bulletin board poster packs add pizzazz to your music classroom bulletin boards, while helping kids remember the essential facts about each composer.
Build pre-multiplication skills by skip counting with our free printable great composer connect-the-dot worksheets. Then grab the crayons!
Learn interesting trivia about our famous composers with Beethoven at Bat, or just make up hilarious stories with our FunLibs™ story and worksheet packs.
Introduce kids to the great composers with a Scavenger Hunt!
Introduce kids to the great composers by asking them to complete an employment application for the composer of your choice.
Start playing right away with our popular collection of free soprano recorder sheet music! Perfect for elementary music students.
Browse 700+ kids song lyrics and nursery rhymes for the music classroom or just for fun.
Spark kids' curiosity with exciting, kid-friendly guides that excite kids about each orchestra instrument's fascinating history, how it's made, how it's played, and awesome fun facts!
Explore our music education posts designed to guide and inspire.
Develop higher order thinking skills in your music students by comparing and contrasting the musical elements your favorite music selections.
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Lesson Zone™ Plans & Worksheets - Lesson Zone™ music lesson plans and worksheet packs from MakingMusicFun.net make planning effortless - just click, print, and teach! Explore concepts like steady beat, rhythm, pitch, tempo, and music form.
Composing With Kids™ App - Composing music has never been more fun or more accessible. Kids can compose music or make beats within a grid by clicking and dragging notes to a desired rhythm, setting the tempo, choosing a style, and deciding which instruments will play their music. It's free - and includes all the tools kids need to allow them to do what they naturally do - play, imitate, experiment, and express their personality.
Music Lesson Plan Bundles - Just click, print, and teach! Our Hey Kids, Meet the Composer music lesson plan bundles make it easy to teach units that are a hit with your students. We take the stress out of prep work by jam-packing these bundles with everything you need—from biographies and word searches to job applications, listening maps, and bulletin board posters. Review each bundle to see how we're making lesson planning a breeze!
Free Word Search Worksheets - Accelerate reading skills with our free word search worksheets. Challenge students to search for keywords from our Hey Kids, Meet the Composer biographies, turning reading practice into an exciting hunt that helps them remember everything they've learned.
Sub-Tub Ideas - It's always great to be prepared. These ready-to-go lesson resources and more are the perfect recipe for success when non-musical substitutes visit your school. They can teach confidently, keep students engaged, and give you the confidence that your students are in the best of hands.
Free Composer Coloring Pages - Want to introduce kids to recordings of composer masterworks? Give them a coloring page and crayons, and start the music. They'll be focused and happy the whole time while they listen to your selected masterworks.
Listening Maps & Glyphs - Our listening maps and glyphs turn listening to music into a visual learning experience. Glyphs allow K-3 students to express what they hear by choosing one crayon or the other, and allow teachers to assess the understanding of an entire class at a glance. Listening maps help kids understand the building blocks of the music they hear.
Free Composer Crossword Puzzles - Test your trivia knowledge with our free crossword puzzles. They're a fun way to drill the facts found in our Hey Kids, Meet the Composer biographies - turning review time into a challenge that helps every fact stick.
Bulletin Board Posters - Creating your next composer bulletin board for your music classroom is a breeze. These posters are purposefully simple to help students focus on the main points so they have the best chance of remembering them.
Free Multiplication-Connect-the-Dot Worksheets - Build pre-multiplication skills by skip counting with our free printable famous composer connect-the-dot worksheets. Then grab the crayons! They're a great addition to your composer units.
Music Games and FunLibs™ - Play games that drill music symbol skills, or learn interesting and sometimes hilarious facts about our greatest composers. Funlibs let kids be creative by making up hilarious stories with our ad-lib style word games. Read the original story and then make up a silly variation by substituting your own words in the blanks.
Free Scavenger Hunt Worksheets - Want a fun way to introduce kids to the great composers? Print this free worksheet and head to our Hey Kids, Meet the Composer biographies to hunt for facts. Learning just became an adventure!
Meet the Composer Job Application - Students complete this job application for any composer using facts from their biography. This worksheet encourages critical thinking by having kids "hire" historical figures in a fun, real-world way — and it helps everything they learned stick.
Soprano Recorder Sheet Music - Start playing right away with our popular collection of free soprano recorder sheet music! Perfect for elementary music students.
MMF Songbook - Browse 700+ kids song lyrics and nursery rhymes for the music classroom or just for fun.
Hey Kids, Meet the Orchestra - Guides & Games - Spark kids' curiosity with exciting, kid-friendly guides and games that excite kids about each orchestra instrument's fascinating history, how it's made, how it's played, and awesome fun facts!
Music Education Posts - Explore our music education posts designed to guide and inspire. Dive into incredible theory games, classroom management tips, and lesson strategies that actually work. We cover everything from national standards to tax-saving advice for private teachers. They include everything you need to build smarter, more successful young musicians!
Composer Venn Diagrams - Boost higher-order thinking skills by comparing and contrasting your favorite musical selections! Our Venn diagram worksheets help students spot the unique elements in pieces and find the shared "musical ingredients" that tie them all together.