The Orchestra!
Learn about orchestras, instruments, and music by attending a large variety of concerts and recitals from great groups like the one below, The Chester County Youth Orchestra! ~ Go CCYO! :)
Orchestra Websites for Children!!
- Carnegie Hall
- Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra ~ a fun story and games to learn about instruments and music.
- Classics for Kids
- Classical Music Radio Broadcasts & Podcasts ~ Fun Learning for Children!
~ On the Radio: Information on their current Broadcast
~ Musical Games: Composer Time Machine, Compose Your Own Music, Note Name Game, Be a Rockin' Rhythm Master
~ Tips & Advice
~ Musical Instruments: Hear the Music, Musical Dictionary, Instruments of the Orchestra, Instruments Families, Musical Careers
~ Instruments: American Folk, Brass, Class, Electronic, Keyboard, Percussion, Strings, Woodwinds, and World.
~ Teachers: Lesson Plans, Activity Sheets, Tips, Books, Advice for Parents and Teachers
~ Composers: Search from A-Z, Country, Musical Period, or Timeline
~ More About Music - Creative Kids Central
- ~ Solo Instrument
~ Solo Voice
~ Symphony
~ Chamber Music
~ Choral Music
~ Opera - Dallas Symphony Orchestra
- DSO Kids is so much fun!
~ Study composers from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern musical style periods.
~ Listen and learn about instruments from the brass, keyboard, percussion, string, and woodwind families.
~ Study about musical scale theory.
~ Play musical games like: Time Machine, Beethovan's Baseball, Music Match, and Picture Paint
~ Make your own instruments.
~ Instrument Practice Tips
~ Teacher Resources: Books, Recordings, Videos, Classroom Materials
~ Lesson Plan Database: Search for lesson plans by concert, subject, or grade level. These lesson packets are very informational. They are to be used with their student concert series, including pre and post concert activities, but they may be used as a nice supplement to any music lesson.
~ Educational Music Links - New York Philharmonic Kids Zone!
- Another incredible one for children and adults learning about the orchestra!
~ Music Games: About a dozen really cool games for kids.
~ Instrument Storage Room: Learn about families of instruments and their members here.
~ Dressing Rooms: Meet the Conductors and Soloists of the Orchestra
~ Instrument Lab: Make Your Own Instruments
~ Musician's Lounge: Meet the members of the New York Philharmonic
~ Composition Workshop: Create Your Own Music
~ Composer's Gallery: Learn About Famous Composers and their Music
~ Newsstand: Extra Tidbits - Play Music
- ~ Backstage Area to learn about instrument families, instruments, and their sounds - fun games are included in this area, too!
~ Meet the Composers
~ Meet the Musicians and Conductor
~ Links to other fun musical sites! - San Francisco Symphony Kids
- ~ Learn About Instruments of the Orchestra: The Families, The Instruments, Their Sounds and Pictures
~ The Music Lab: Learn About Simple Music Theory - Basics, Tempo, Rhythms, Pitch, Harmony, Symbols, Instrumentation, Performalator, Composerizer
~ What's Up at the Symphony?
Instruments & Accessories
Where to find great deals!
Orchestra Series Lenses
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Orchestra: The Percussion Family Lapbook Unit
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The percussion family ~ what a broad range of instruments! Percussion instruments are used in every style of music from classical, rock, folk, jazz, ... to any kind! Percussion music may be very simple that even the youngest child can play to extrem...
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Orchestra: The String Family Lapbook Unit
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Super, spectacular symphonic string instruments! Soothingly sing along with the slow, slippery, sliding bow strokes or skip along with the spirited, sparkling, staccato sounds of strings! Beautiful string instruments have existed far back in human h...
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Orchestra: Woodwind Family Lapbook Unit
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Wonderful wild whistling woodwinds winding through the wind! Come find out more about them!
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Orchestra: Brass Family Lapbook Unit
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Imagine ... a breezy, beautiful day below the big blue sky ... a brass band begins to step to the bold beat of the bass drum. The sun brightly bounces off the bells of the beaming brass instruments ... then you hear it, the boisterous, blowing of th...
Orchestra Teaching Materials
Flash Cards, Lapbooks, Mini Books, Notebooks, Posters, Worksheets ...
- Composer Mini Books to use with Research
- ~ Bach, Beethoven, Brahams, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Vivaldi, Wagner
- Instrument Mini Books
- ~ Brass: French Horn, Trombone, Trumpet. Tuba
~ Keyboard: Celesta, Piano, Organ, Harpsichord
~ Percussion: Bass Drum, Cymbals, Glockenspiel, Snare Drum, Timpani, Triangle, Tubular Bells, Xylophone
~ Strings: Cello, Double Bass, Harp, Viola, Violin
~ Woodwinds: Bassoon, Clarinet, Flute, Oboe, Piccolo, Saxophone - Instrument Teaching Resources
- Sparkle Box has colorful, fun manipulatives for teaching music and other subjects! This page contains:
~ Musical Action Posters
~ Musical Instrument Topic Cards
~ Musical Conductor Cards (elements of music terms)
~ Musical Instrument & Action Cards
~ Musical Instrument Flash Cards
~ Music Display Banner
~ Music Theme Display Border
~ Recording Studio Role-Play Pack
~ Recorder & Choir Certificates - Montessori Music Materials
- ~ Instrument Cards: Brass, Percussion, String, Woodwind, World Instruments
~ Composer Cards
~ Music Notation Cards: All types of music theory symbols.
~ Music Manipulatives: Staff board and notes to place on it.
~ Music Timeline Demo - Music Section at Enchanted Learning
- ~ An enormous supply of music theory and musical instruments worksheets to print. Some are free, others are by membership.
- Orchestra Lapbook
- From Homeschool Helper, the lapbook contains many mini books, notebook pages, and coloring pages.
~ What is an Orchestra ~ History of the Orchestra
~ Conductor - What does a conductor do? & Hands
~ Types of Instruments ~ Strings ~ Woodwind ~ Percussion ~ Brass ~ Keyboard
~ Baroque Period ~ Classical Period ~ Romantic Period ~ Modern Period ~ Composers ~ Beethoven & Mozart Pages - Orchestra Seating Charts for Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern Orchestras
- ~ Check how the instrumentation has changed over the centuries. These four charts may be printed out and added to your notebook or unit.
- Free Worksheets
- ~ Orchestral instrument word searches, matching, and instrument recognition worksheets.
~ "My Musical Instrument Book" is a cute tab book about the families of instruments.
~ Coloring pages and others. - Music Graphics Galore
- "A collection of music icons, clipart, graphics, & icons."
- Musical Instruments Clipart
- Almost 70 graphics to use free for your educational purposes. Each graphic has a colored and blank copy.
Learn about the Instruments with Tune Buddies!
Cool Classroom Instruments
101 Rhythm Instrument Activities: for Young Children by Abigail Flesch Connors
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Hohner Kids Hardwood Wood Block with Mallet
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Trophy 8-Note Wood Diatonic Resonator Bell Set, ¹
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Hohner Kids Two-Tone Wood Block with Mallet
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Pulse B-2 Tunable 2-Tone Bongos
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Dunlop 2-Pack Egg Shaker
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Latin Percussion LP311B Pro 5" Triangle
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Pulse Pro Tambourine, Black
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Basic Beat Pair of Natural Wood Sandblocks with Handles
Pair of natural wood sandblocks with handles. Tota more...0 points
Basic Beat Wood Castanets on Handle
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Hohner Crow Sounder (Woodblock)
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Pair of Medium Wood Maracas
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Basic Beat Small (12") Wood Fish-Shaped Guiro
Small wood fish-shaped guiro with wood scraper. Ha more...0 points
Basic Beat Pair of 12" Combination Rhythm Sticks
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Hohner Kids Two-Tone Wood Block with Mallet
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Lynn Kleiner 8" Pretuned Hand Drum with Mallet
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CP Single Row Tambourine, 10 Inches
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Latin Percussion LP234B Large Wood Afuche/Cabasa
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Basic Beat Stamped Brass Finger Cymbals (2 pr)
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Trophy Wood Chromatic Resonator Bell Set
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Trophy Clave Pair
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Musical Instrument Pictures
These are great to place in notebooks and lapbooks.
Instrument Activity Books
Orchestra & Music Games!
- Fun & Games
- ~ Composer Time Machine
~ Compose Your Own Music
~ Note Name Game
~ Be a Rockin' Rhythm Master - Game Room of the New York Philharmonic!
- Several games for a ton of fun!
~ Instrument Frenzy
~ Make Your Own Instrument
~ Minuet Mixer
~ Musical Mingles
~ Music Match Composers
~ Music Match Instruments
~ Orchestration Station
~ Percussion Showdown
~ Piccolo Pete is the Amazing Noterunner
~ Puzzles & Quizzes
~ Scavenger Hunt - Guess the Instrument
- ~ Listen and match.
- Instruments of the Orchestra
- ~ Match the instrument sound with the proper instrument.
- Instruments of the Orchestra
- ~ Match the instruments with their families.
- Layton Music Studio
- Many wonderful music theory games to print and make for teaching fun!
~ Card Games
~ Board Games
~ Worksheets
~ Flash Cards
~ Sheet Music
~ Other great hands-on games! - Music Games at the DSO
- ~ Time Machine ~ Beethoven's Baseball ~ Music Match ~ Picture Paint
- Music Match'em
- Match the instruments with their correct sound to earn points.
- Musiquest
- ~ A Backstage Adventure at the New York Philharmonic
- Play Musical Instruments
- ~ Click on the tuba player, then an instrument to take you to a game.
- Young Person's Guide
- ~ Go on a great music safari!
Games make learning memorable!
Vote for Your Favorite Children's Music Book
Which book do you enjoy the best? Or do you have another favorite? Please feel free to add others that have delighted you and students!
The Musical Life of Gustav Mole by Michael Twinn
Gustav is a mole lucky enough to be born into a mu more...1 point
Lost Music: Gustav Mole's War on Noise (Child's Play Library) by Kathryn Meyrick
Meloncholy is a mole without music. How Gustav and more...0 points
Mole Music by David McPhail
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Berlioz the Bear by Jan Brett
Berlioz and his bear orchestra are playing the gal more...0 points
Little Rat Makes Music by Monika Bang-Campbell
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Can You Hear It? by Dr. William Lach, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin (Aladdin Picture Books) by Lloyd Moss
The Caldecott Honor book, now in paperback! With more...0 points
The Music Teacher from the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler
A boy contemplates all the horrible stories he has more...0 points
Musical Instruments from a to Z (Alphabasics) by Bobbie Kalman
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Music, Music for Everyone by Vera B. Williams
"Rosa organizes her friends into the Oak Stre more...0 points
M Is for Music by Kathleen Krull
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Conductors
- Maestro Academy ~ Conducting 101
- ~ Learn how to conduct an orchestra in 2/4, 3/4, or 4/4 time signatures.
Unit Studies involving Musical Instruments
- Berlioz the Bear Literature Unit
- ~ Based on the story by Jan Brett, this wonderful unit not only teaches about instruments and music notation, but also contains information to teach language arts, social studies, math, science, and art.
- Music Unit Studies
- ~ Scroll down to music ~ there are over two dozen units based on literature for children listed here. These are free units containing well-rounded instruction in a variety of subject areas.
Musical Instrument Sets
Melissa & Doug Deluxe Band Set
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Melissa & Doug Deluxe Beginner Band Set
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Bob McGrath Rhythm Band Set and CD
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Beginner Band in a Box 2
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Melissa & Doug Makin' Music Kazoo
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Melissa & Doug Band in a Box
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Hohner Rhythm Instrument Set- 6 pc.
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Amazing Baby Developmental Musical Instrument Set
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First Act FA554 Discovery Band in a Bucket
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Disney Little Einsteins My First Instruments Play Set
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Native Instruments Tonewheel Set for B4, Hybrid CD Win/Mac
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Elegant Baby 5 Piece Bath Squirties Gift Set in Vinyl Zip Bag - Musical Instruments
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Hohner Kids Mini Orchestra Set of 4 Instruments
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Orchestra Lesson Plans & Background Research Information
- Instrument Playground
- ~ Download a 12 page packet on each of the instrument families. Each packet gives information about the family and instruments within the group, conductor information, vocabulary terms, etcetera from the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.
- Orchestral Instruments
- ~ Very concise but accurate descriptions of the instruments in their families - each page may be printed out as a PDF.
Musical Puzzles
The Coolest Links on the Page
- An Introduction to Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade
- ~ The Story of "The Thousand and One Arabian Nights"
~ An interactive story told by a narrator and music with beautiful music and graphics!
~ Many musical elements are interspersed throughout: mood, tone color, expression, themes, texture, melody, pitch, phrases, storyline, instruments, sequence and form
~ Information about storytelling, geography, art, and the composer are given, also.
~ Games are suggested at certain places in the story - correct answers will earn you gold keys that will unlock the special garden at the end of the story for more activities!
~ Teacher lesson plans, text, printables, and quizzes are given on the site for printing. - Brahams in 1890's Vienna
- ~ Learning About Chamber Music ~ Clarinet Trio in A Minor (Opus 114)
~ Teacher lesson plan, text, quiz, art and architecture activities are found in the teacher / parent section.
~ A story told by "Ferdinand Schumann" who travels to Vienna, Austria to visit Johannes Brahams. He searches throughout the city to find the famous musicians and materials. Each item and place he finds tells more musical information.
~ You may play games along the journey!
~ Information about the Vienna architecture, chamber music, the musicians, art, and culture of the city.
Great Places to Purchase Sheet Music
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- eclecticeducation eclecticeducation Oct 17, 2009 @ 4:46 pm
- Great lens! Lapbooks are a great way to teach. I'll have to save this to do with my kids.
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