This art project ‘African Dumbek Drum’ enables students to create African drums. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a list of recommended art books.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Censorship in Music’ asks students to answer questions about how censorship violates the rights of citizens and artists. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This art project ‘Coffee Can Drum’ enables students to make drums out of coffee cans. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a list of recommended art books.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Cymbals’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This art project ‘Didgeridoos’ enables students to create Australian Aboriginal didgeridoos. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a recommended art book.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Early Rap Years’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This kids news activity, ‘Introducing Ukes To Youths’ is about a Canadian program introducing school students to music through learning the ukulele .
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Jimi Hendrix’s Rise and Fall’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Learn to Play the Guitar’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This oral language photo activity ‘Dancing Girl’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
This procedural text, ‘Make and Play a Djembe Drum’ features instructions about how to make and play a Djembe drum and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness.
This art project ‘Music Around the House’ enables students to create music, sounds and rhythms from everyday household objects. It provides a list of materials and easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions.
This maths template, ‘Music Staves’ can be reproduced for classroom use.
This printable sheet music, ‘National Anthem – Advance Australia Fair (Australia)’ with lyrics can be reproduced for classroom use.
This art project ‘Orange Maracas’ enables students to create maracas from oranges. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions, a recipe for papier mache pulp and a list of recommended art books.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Picture Story: Violin’ asks students to identify the story that best matches the picture, which features a man playing a violin at a market. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recognise the association between a picture and a short story describing it.
This art project ‘Plastic-Cup Maracas’ enables students to create maracas from plastic cups. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions and a list of recommended art books.
This art project ‘Rainsticks’ enables students to create rainsticks using household materials. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of basic artistic procedures. It provides a list of materials, easy-to-follow step-by-step art instructions, a diagram and a list of recommended art books.
This sequencing activity, ‘Sheet Music’ develops comprehension and understanding of numbers through sequencing musical notes.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘The Classical and Romantic Periods’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This vocabulary activity, ‘The Orchestra’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match musical vocabulary to relevant definitions or descriptions.
This reading activity, ‘The Orchestra’ provides opportunities for practice with reading about the orchestra to answer the comprehension questions.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘The Piano’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Sound of Old Music’, asks students to read a story and answer comprehension questions about ancient flutes found in China.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Sound of Old Music’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about ancient flutes discovered in China.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Star’ asks students to answer questions about Jane Taylor’s poem called ‘The Star’. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to think about word meanings and rhyming words. It also encourages them to recall information from the poem.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This writing prompt, ‘Your Favourite Music’ helps students to write about their favourite music. It encourages students to think about how music makes them feel and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
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