This website gives ideas on how to use music in the classroom, and identifies activities to use with each idea. The grade levels these activities are directed to are 3rd - 12th grade. A few of the ideas is listening to world music, and having students try to identify the area of the world in which the music originates, and marking it on a map. Another in teaching about vibration by making a rubber band banjo. There are many more to look over these are just a few that I thought I would like.

Picking songs to read and help with fluency and vocabulary.

Lesson plans, resources and classroom design that helps to integrate music and curriculum in the classroom.

This is a site that has some lesson plans to use music when teaching math. I really liked the one with shapes using the hokey pokey and the music for multiplication facts with the song skip to my lou- this one also works with rhyming and helping students use their own imagination to come up with lines.

List of music infused lesson plans.

This website plays the song, "fifty nifty United States", which ties geography into music. The song tells us about the original 13 colonies, along with singing each state. The grade level for the lesson would be for 2nd or 3rd graders.

So this is a song that has so many facts about the planets and the solar system. It is great because it is catchy and the students that are in grades 5-8 will love it. It is a bit like a rap song that is filled to the brim with facts. It will be a new way to bring music into the classroom as well as a new way to bring facts in. Songs about the planets, such as the order they are in, were awesome when they were younger but this is a fun twist. This also has a fill in the blank sheet for the kids to fill out as well as questions for the students to answer. It is fun and fresh! -

This lesson plan explores everything from health to foreign languages to dance as well as music. It is about teaching kids the Hokey Pokey in different languages. I have never thought about it before but it is a great way for kids to not only learn their body parts in other languages but it is a fun and easy way to introduce many different languages into the classroom. This also can be done with really any age group, but it would be really fun to do with 2-4 graders

Musical Fractions. Middle/Elementary School options.

Students will learn how to add fractions using musical notes. They will first learn about the different types of notes (whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth). They will learn how to add and subtract using musical notes like a quarter note + a quarter note = a half note, and so on. This lesson could be modified to only teach addition and subtraction for younger elementary kids as well.

This is a unit using music to teach vocabulary. The lesson is written up in a slide show format. I would use it with probably 4-8th graders.

This first link is to the Teaching Channel and how they incorporate learning music through the use of subjects they have been discussing in the classroom such as science. In the video on the page they show the music teacher ask the students to give her some words associated with what they are learning about and she then leads them to make a Rondo out of all the phrases and words they came up with. She then gives out instruments to the students and has them come up with their beats and rhythms using them.

This link is a whole website dedicated to music infused lessons. Any lesson you look for they will have a way to incorporate music into it because they state that by doing so kids learn the concepts of the subject better and for longer.

A pdf of a lesson plan that is of math that teaches pattern using a musical instrument called boomwhachers. This lesson plan is good to teach 1st-3rd graders I had no idea what a boomwhacker was until I googled it.

this is a lesson plan bank that has a plethora of lesson plans for all ages PreK - grad school. Some of the lessons require a membership, while other you have to purchase. But a very good resource to say the least, there are many great lesson plans and ideas to add into the classroom that utilize STEM curriculum and incorporate music, and some are accompanied with videos.

-This is an awesome link to a PDF file that I found online. It is a drawn out lesson plan involving music notes and rhythm to teach fractions. The lesson begins with an introduction on music, asking kids if they enjoy music. The students are all given different shapes of rectangles.
Brown rectangles- representing half notes (2 beats)
Red rectangles- representing quarter notes (1 beat) should be half the size of the brown
rectangles
Purple rectangles- representing eighth notes (1/2 beats) should be half the size of the red
rectangles and ¼ of the size of the half notes.
Next the teacher asks each student to line up 7 rectangles and practice clapping consistently seven beats. Do this with alternating and switching up the colors used and explain that each color represents a different duration and different note. Ask them to make their own rhythm consisting of any combination of notes until you have four beats. Then you ask students to watch a short video and listen to the rhythm. Next you have them split up to create their own beat, and then ask for volunteers to share with the class. This lesson was focused in a 2nd grade classroom.

This lesson I remember doing, its the clapping syllable lesson. I think it is a lesson that will never get old and will always benefit the children. The lesson starts off by explaining that the lesson will refer to syllable, as beats, and that each word as a different beat and number of beats (syllables). You begin by asking if students know the difference between long and short words, and which they think have more beats. You then read a story emphasizing certain words and their beats as you clap them out with the students. You go through each students names as you clap the number of beats for each, then you ask your students to join you. You have a list of vocabulary words and for independent practice you give each student a word and their job is to clap the beats, you then call on another students and ask them how many beats they had in their word. I think that this lesson would be appropriate for early elementary ages and even for older grades as a recap. It's great for learning to read and write effectively.

I also found this short video on clapping to syllables and also using a robot voice. If students need a little more help or you want to introduce it differently I think this is a great video for learning the beats (syllables) of words