This plan provides students the opportunity to express fingerboard understanding on string instruments, a skill opening many avenues to musical expression. The provided materials can be used and manipulated by teachers to assist with student understanding one string at a time. This technology, which is free and already used in classrooms, is intuitive to the teacher and student.

In this plan, students will use the melody from the jazz standard “St. James Infirmary” as a springboard to improvisation. The students will utilize a call and response technique to learn the melody. Then students will learn several ways they can utilize the content within the melody of a song to improvise.

Students will explore copyright and intellectual property standards as they relate to music, music technology, and digital citizenship. Students will explore copyright law, investigate the trends of copyright throughout history, and collaborate to propose their own “Copyright Act” for the future.

This lesson guides students through the beginning stages of articulation. Focus is limited to producing clear, focused tone, and clean legato articulation.

This plan guides teachers in exercising audiation techniques to develop aural skills for young musicians. These skills can be continually developed in warm-ups and literature in call-and-response style instruction.

Students will create original instruments similar to the homespun instruments of Appalachian old-time and bluegrass music. Students will investigate both traditional and Appalachian instruments to understand how instruments make sound, and what is needed to create sound (strings, bridge, tuning capabilities, bow, body, and neck). Students will used recycled or found parts to create their own bluegrass instrument.

This webinar provides an overview of the 2020 Music Standards of Learning and is adapted to meet the needs of Orchestra Directors.

In this webinar, we will explore ways that teachers and students can use digital tools in the secondary music classroom for creation and investigation. Topics addressed will include project ideas, integration of audio creation tools into the class structure and environment, and practical issues to consider when choosing hardware and software for these projects.

This presentation provides an overview of the 2020 Instrumental Music Standards of learning, and is specifically geared toward secondary orchestra directors.

This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for elementary and middle school instrumental music in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards levels: Elementary, MS Beginning, MS Intermediate and MS Advanced.

This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for high school instrumental music in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards levels: beginning, intermediate, advanced and artist.