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Travel the musical world with this music passport (US). This mock United States passport allows students to keep a record of all the musical journeys they will take in your class! One marking period we go to one country/region every class in my 6th grade music classes. I pair this with "The World's Music Audio Program" by Holt McDougal, but you can use it with anything you do in class.

This is a great blank manuscript paper for beginners to write simple melodies. Four lines for three measures each. Treble clef already on the first line so students can copy on the rest of the lines. Students can add their own time signatures, tempo, dynamics and even their own lyrics.

Notes on the Music Elements- Texture, Timbre/Tone Color, Duration, Form/Structure, Dynamics, Pitch, Tempo, Silence Notes with examples if each- also included is basics like staff, measure, and time signatures. I have used this as a review for 6th-12th graders, depending on music knowledge level. A UEQ is a Unit Essential Question, and can be adapted to fit your lesson plan needs. Originally created in Keynote (Mac), this is converted to PowerPoint so you may need to change some of the build in a

Notes on the Music Elements- Texture, Timbre/Tone Color, Duration, Form/Structure, Dynamics, Pitch, Tempo, Silence Notes with examples if each- also included is basics like staff, measure, and time signatures. I have used this as a review for 6th-12th graders, depending on music knowledge level. A UEQ is a Unit Essential Question, and can be adapted to fit your lesson plan needs. PowerPoint Version also available. Pairs with Music Elements foldable.

This worksheet pairs with the book and/or CD of Lemony Snicket's "The Composer is Dead." It is a great little story that allows an inspector to move through the entire orchestra interviewing instruments searching for the murderer of "the composer". It may seem scary, but it isn't, in fact it's quite silly. Listening skills are very important. This worksheet has students list the instruments within the section it belongs and write a funny fact about each. At the end the inspector quickly reviews

This foldable is for the elements of music: Dynamics, Tempo, Duration, Pitch, Texture, Timbre/Tone Color, Form/Structure and Silence. It folds into a brochure that makes it easy for students to look up information as they identify/use/manipulate the elements in your class! After listing all the elements at the top, this brochure has a header with the name of each element allowing students to take notes, write definitions and list examples for each element in a neat structured way. This foldable