Rosette Resources

This resource is great to use at the beginning of the year and/or term to get to know your students. It is a great way to learn about their musical styles and tastes to be able to incorporate into your classroom and future lessons. Student's choose 5 songs that best represent themselves. Student's provide a short explanation on what each song means to them and why it is important. This task also comes with a rubric based on Ontario Arts Curriculum.

This resource allows students to research a jazz musician and how their style of music and instrumentation helped develop jazz as a genre. This document is completely editable and can be changed to use different musicians, more musicians or require different criteria based on the material discussed in class beforehand. This resource also contains a rubric based on the Grade 9 Ontario Curriculum expectations. HOW I USE THIS RESOURCE:In my classroom, I typically do a mini unit on Jazz History and

Listening Journal Digital AND Print This resource helps students analyze the elements of music in a song of your choosing. This document is completely editable and can be scaffolded and changed to what elements you are focusing on in your classroom. HOW I USE THIS RESOURCE: In my classroom, we start each day with a song to complete our listening journals with. Students use the circles on the side of the slide to complete and showcase what they hear. Students then choose words to descri

This resource helps students analyze the elements of music in a song of your choosing. This document is completely editable and can be scaffolded and changed to what elements you are focusing on in your classroom. HOW I USE THIS RESOURCE:In my classroom, we focus and discuss a different element each week. After each lesson, the students receive this activity with the element we focused on and elements we have focused on in the past as a refresher. EXTENSION IDEA:Have students complete this acti

This resource is great to use at the beginning of the year to allow students to try out each instrument in beginning band. This product is NOT EDITABLE. Due to the loud nature of rhythm instruments, that card has been instructed for students to wait for more teacher demonstration and showcase before trying the instruments (piano, guitar, bass, drums). Each card comes with instructions on what to do at each station (it is recommended there is a method book at each station for students to also loo