Lesson Plan: Hearing Colors
This week’s lesson focuses on colors in music, using art as a tangible medium for children to interact with what they hear. All [...]
Lesson Plan: Opening Up Your Ears Activity
The lesson this week is a fun foundational activity for all ages, developing active listening and encouraging interaction with our environment. As you work [...]
Lesson Plan: Sounds Like the Olympics!
This week’s lesson is about the Olympics, and works with John Williams’ famous Olympic Fanfare, written for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. [...]
Lesson Plan: What’s That Note?
This week’s lesson is a fun introductory musical game for primary aged students. It’s especially good for getting the wiggles out in between other [...]
Lesson Plan: Exploring Musical Energy
The lesson this week is about musical energy in a fun compare-and-contrast activity! Using painting and colors helps children put abstract musical [...]
Lesson Plan: Patterns in Sound
The lesson this week is about patterns in music, and in the world around us. This is a great activity for abstract thinkers, using [...]
Lesson Plan: Music Tells a Story
The lesson this week is about storytelling through music. Composers are like authors, using music to express the story they want to share. This [...]
Lesson Plan: Worldwide Ode to Joy
This week’s lesson is about Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” As we have discussed a couple weeks ago, this piece has historically brought communities [...]
Lesson Plan: Life As Music
We hope you enjoyed last week’s lesson plan “Colors of Music.” See Last Week’s Activity As promised, we have brought another educational music activity to enjoy [...]
Lesson Plan: Colors of Music
Are you trying to find a way to teach your students at home? Look no further than your Tucson Symphony Orchestra for different [...]