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Get your students up and moving with these fun, free, and fully-scripted musical form lesson plans. From hatching to Mussorgsky’s Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks to baseball moves for Brahms' Hungarian Dance No.5, these lessons are designed to ramp up the fun while keeping your classroom active. Use them as is, or make them your own to create unplugged musical moments your students will love!

Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks | Music Lesson Plan - ABA Form Grade 1-2 Hatch musical understanding! Kids peck and explore as they engage with this composer masterwork in an unforgettable, hands-on way! Get Lesson
Gymnopedie (Erik Satie) | Movement Lesson for Same/Different Grade 1-3 Teach the concept of same vs. different through a graceful movement activity choreographed to Satie’s Gymnopedie No. 1. Get Lesson
Hungarian Dance No.5 (Brahms) | Form/AABBCDAB Codetta Grade 2-6 Brahms Meets Baseball. Students perform baseball moves to Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5. This lesson is always a home run! Get Lesson
In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) | Listening Lesson Grade 2-6 This listening map helps students analyze and describe Grieg’s masterpiece. Get Free Listening Map
Messiah/Hallelujah Chorus (Handel) | Listening Lesson Grade 2-6 Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah! You've found it - the perfect listening map to introduce your students to one of history’s greatest works! Get Premium Lesson Pack
Michael Row the Boat Ashore | Call and Response Grade 2-3 All Aboard! Introduce Call and Response as students sit in boats and use rhythm sticks as oars to row their way through this movement lesson! Get Lesson
Skittle, Skittle, Skittle, Ski | Canon Grade 2-6 Students learn about the canon while playing body percussion patterns—including snaps, stamps, and finger pops—to create an impressive rhythmic performance. Get Lesson
Trashin' the Camp/Tarzan | AABA Form/Dance Grade 2-3 Bring the jungle to your music classroom! Students learn AABA form as they dance a different step to each section of Trashin' the Camp from Disney's "Tarzan." Get Lesson
Trepak | AABA Form Grade 2-4 Experience the Nutcracker through dance. Teach AABA form with Tchaikovsky’s high-energy "Trepak." This ready-to-teach lesson introduces students to the most popular ballet of all time through movement! Get Lesson
Twinkle, Twinkle, Changing Star | Music Lesson Plan - Theme and Variations Grade 2-4 Introduce Theme and Variations form with this lesson that combines listening with a worksheet that gives students an opportunity to illustrate each variation. Get Lesson
Viennese Musical Clock | Movement/Rondo Form Grade 2-3 Bring Kodaly’s masterpiece to life through role-play as dancers, trumpeters, knights, and royalty in Vienna while learning about the Seven-Part Rondo form (ABACADA). Get Lesson