Creative Music Room offers innovative and enjoyable music lesson plans and activities for elementary students crafted by Angela Kelly. These lessons are designed to spark creativity and engagement through interactive and fun music activities that can enhance the way you teach elementary music. Angela’s plans also provide teachers with practical resources to create a dynamic and supportive learning environment.
In this video, Angela highlights one of her favorite music lesson plans for 2 years old to 8th grade.
Learn more about our Twinkling Tree Music Lesson Plan here.
Melody Lesson Plans
These Melody Lesson Plans will help your elementary students hear, see and understand melodic contour. They are perfect for building aural skills and introducing music reading.
Musical Form Lesson Plans
These Musical Form Lesson Plans make it easy to show how rhythm and melody come together. With hands-on activities and listening examples, students begin to understand how music is built.
Music is Math Lesson Plans
These Music is Math Lesson Plans offer an important and appropriate avenue to cross-curricular teaching. In my experience, once students are introduced to this relationship, light bulbs go off that can supercharge their musical growth.
Steady Beat and Rhythm Lesson Plans
These lesson plans include activities that reinforce the concept of steady beat and rhythm as a musical backbone.
The Staff Lesson Plans
These Staff Lessons Plans help students learn lines and spaces, skips and steps, and basic intervals through fun, engaging activities. They are a great way to build strong note-reading skills and confidence on the musical staff.
Interpretation and Expression Lesson Plans
The lessons in this category explore how music communicates ideas, emotions and meaning. Some lessons may connect musical choices to cultural and historical context while others may explore expressive elements like tempo and dynamics, or even examine how theory and structure shape a song’s impact. Through listening, discussion, and creative response, students develop a deeper understanding of how connections are made in music.
Other Fun Lesson Plans
These lesson plans offer fun and interactive learning opportunities that have become favorites in my classroom. Enjoy!
In this lesson plan, the students become “Meter Detectives,” listening closely to uncover the secret patterns behind the music.
Introduce your students to the musical sounds that birds make. Build active listening, simple rhythmic response, and creative movement based on bird calls.
Sharpen your students' listening skills by identifying rhythms and melodic patterns in birdsong.
Students will develop active listening, rhythmic and melodic transcription skills, and cross-disciplinary knowledge by studying and transcribing bird calls.
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