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Activate!

A general music resource for music teachers by music teachers

Activate your students with engaging and eclectic ideas to get your classes singing, playing, moving, and reading! Each issue of this year-long magazine presents detailed lessons from master general music teachers who work in school settings across the country and around the world. And to save you time, each lesson includes the visuals, printable music, recordings, and worksheets that you need to teach it, now conveniently located on our new ActivateOnline website. A subscription to Activate! will enliven your teaching and deepen your thinking all year long.

Your subscription will include these great features:

Sing: engaging lessons and repertoire to get all your grade levels singing

Play: lessons for barred percussion, non-pitched percussion, recorder, and more

Move: age-appropriate movement lessons to reinforce the music-movement connection

Read: teaching, reviewing, and reinforcing music notation skills

Classical Connections: innovative lessons to help students connect to a classical or jazz piece

From My Classroom to Yours: teaching tips and new ideas from your fellow music educators

Activate Asks: short and sweet advice from our whole team

Tech Talk: using new technology in your classroom

Composer Spotlight: student-friendly activities to learn about a composer

Calendars: date-specific ideas for every week of the school year

Our whole team understands kids and music classrooms, including our editor Mari Schay, and our dedicated team of music educators, including Artie Almeida, Katie Grace Miller, Patricia Bourne, Katie Ballantyne, Doug Edwards, Brian Hiller & Don Dupont, Reuben Burrows, and many, many more!

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Activate your students with engaging and eclectic ideas to get your classes singing, playing, moving, and reading! Each issue of this year-long magazine presents detailed lessons from master general music teachers who work in school settings across the country and around the world.

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Buy individual songs from Music K-8 magazine. 1500+ to choose from. Idea Bank Browse peer-submitted music teaching ideas. Choreography, craft videos, Page Turners, performance videos and more. Free Downloads Download Music K-8 issue extras, free songs, and much more. Students, practice recorder online. Teachers, find ideas and downloads for Recorder Karate.

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The highly motivational, highly popular beginning recorder method that started it all!

The much-requested second volume of the motivational recorder method that picks up where Recorder Karate 1 leaves off

Recorder BYTES are captivating new teaching resources by Dan Thieman that will help your students practice their recorders more effectively.

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Teachers who use Recorder Karate have access to tips and ideas to help with their own programs, photos that display how other music teachers are using Recorder Karate, streaming audio that allows students to practice online, and more.

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Follow the Drinking Gourd (DVD ) by Reading | J.W. Pepper Sheet Music

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Instrument Families

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Tune Buddies: Getting to Know the Instruments: miniDVD

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miniDVD. It's the first LIVE ACTION series to take children worldwide on a magical, musical voyage introducing them to the instruments that make the music. Tune Buddies is the perfect introduction to a child's lifelong musical journey. This award-winning program now available on miniDVD is compatible with all standard set-top DVD video devices.

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DVD with Peter and the Wolf

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A database of songs, games, videos & animations designed to help the PreK-6 music teacher with their curriculum.

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Phyllis Weikart DVD set

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Beginning Folk Dances ( 852330), M, B & R Music Classroom Books & Materials Movement & Dance

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Beginning Folk Dances with Phyllis Weikart M, B & R Music Classroom Books & Materials Movement & Dance

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Artie Almeida

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Mallet Madness and Others

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rades K-3 * Playing meets pedagogy in this collection of powerfully productive lesson plans, precision-crafted by Artie Grace Almeida and up-and-coming educator Katie Grace Miller. Using the manipulatives that are at the core of this resource, your students will point their way to an understanding of numerous music concepts. Each of these fifteen lessons outlines multiple step-by-step ideas for how the students can interact with the pointing pages. You can also feel free to pick and choose a single activity or, for the full experience, present the entire plan to your students. All of the pointing pages are available as full-color digital files, which you may project or print to create bright, engaging visual aids. Getting to the point of your lesson has never been easier! G

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Grades K-5 * Fun, fun, and more fun! And what could be better than a resource that will have your students begging to listen to more classical music? In "Parachutes and Ribbons and Scarves, Oh My!" Artie Almeida shares some of her most-beloved listening and movement-based lessons. The included CD features outstanding orchestral tracks from the NAXOS recording label and reproducible visuals and teaching aids. Best of all, videos of Artie's students performing the activities are also provided on the disc, so pull out your favorite movement props and let the learning-and listening-begin!

Grades K-6 * From master teacher Artie Almeida comes this exciting collection of over thirty activities for mallet percussion instruments and drums that will energize your classroom. "Mallet Madness" uses songs, poems, music & literature connections, and reproducible flashcards to promote learning in the concept areas of beat, rhythm, melody, harmony, form, and expressive qualities. Thanks to its unique rotation system, your students will play all of the mallet percussion instruments in your classroom, as well as many of the non-pitched instruments. Suggestions for adapting the activities for use in classrooms with few, or even no, mallet instruments are also given. Whether presented as a unit or spread over a semester or school year, your students will love "Mallet Madness" and you will love the skills and musicality they develop during these lessons. And don't forget the interactive CD-ROMs, available for both Promethean and SMART software, which also include PowerPoint sides.

Grades 2-6 * We've seen what you've been up to, and we like it! All of you "Mallet Madness" devotees have been toiling away to create presentations and visuals that are as strikingly fun and creative as "Mallet Madness" and "Mallet Madness Strikes Again!" We think that's a great idea and are pleased to bring you the interactive whiteboard versions of many of the lessons from these favorite resources. Choose between Promethean or SMART software, and the rest is done for you. The whiteboard applications bring the original lessons to life through the use of colorful visuals and interactive tutorials and quizzes not found in the print edition. Don't have an interactive whiteboard? A PowerPoint version is provided with both editions, so pick the version that you hope to have someday, and until then you can use the slide-show lessons with any computer or projector to enhance your "Mallet Madness" experience.

Grades 2-6 * We've seen what you've been up to, and we like it! All of you "Mallet Madness" devotees have been toiling away to create presentations and visuals that are as strikingly fun and creative as "Mallet Madness" and "Mallet Madness Strikes Again!" We think that's a great idea and are pleased to bring you the interactive whiteboard versions of many of the lessons from these favorite resources. Choose between Promethean or SMART software, and the rest is done for you. The whiteboard applications bring the original lessons to life through the use of colorful visuals and interactive tutorials and quizzes not found in the print edition. Don't have an interactive whiteboard? A PowerPoint version is provided with both editions, so pick the version that you hope to have someday, and until then you can use the slide-show lessons with any computer or projector to enhance your "Mallet Madness" experience.

Grades 4-8 * Artie's Jazz Pack includes a CD for use with the guided-listening activities, Teacher's Guide with seven reproducible worksheets, and manipulatives for Jazz Term Concentration and Jazz Term Flashcards. 36 copies of the activity boards The Instruments of Jazz and Jazz Styles Dial are also provided, as are an overview of jazz styles, two WebVisits, a list of historical jazz greats and current jazz voices, and listening library and children's literature suggestions. These teaching tools, all of which have been classroom-tested for appeal and effectiveness, will provide you with the necessary materials to teach your students about jazz in an enjoyable and effective manner. You may use any individual component by itself, or utilize the entire kit for a complete jazz instructional unit.

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rades K-3 * Playing meets pedagogy in this collection of powerfully productive lesson plans, precision-crafted by Artie Grace Almeida and up-and-coming educator Katie Grace Miller. Using the manipulatives that are at the core of this resource, your students will point their way to an understanding of numerous music concepts.

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Amadons

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Eric Chapelle, multiple volumes

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music for creative dance: contrast & continuum

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Music for Creative Dance: Contrast & Continuum, Vol. 3

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