Free Resources! Ready to Download.
|
|
|
FREE Lesson Plans for Teachers
The Twinkle Challenge
The Twinkle Challenge provides students with an aural activity suitable for both face-to-face and online learning, and for groups or the private settings too! Download the lesson plan HERE. Read the Room
A composition activity with a difference. This group activity gets students moving, creating and and 'playing each other!' Download the lesson plan HERE. Clapping Ladders
A 'copy back' activity that develops aural skills, rhythmic awareness and consolidates the learning of scales. Download the lesson plan HERE. Delete
This activity helps students become familiar with scales and developed an awareness of scale degrees. Download the lesson plan HERE. Forbidden Rhythm
This activity starts as the popular 'copy back' activity where one rhythm is NOT to be copied back. In the string class, melody is also introduced to the game. Download the lesson plan HERE. |
Mini Tour of Strings Together & Band Together
Take a quick tour of the Strings Together and Band Together books with author Karen Kyriakou. Activities 1-5 for Online Teaching
Many of the Strings Together and Band Together activities can be easily adapted to online teaching. Karen Kyriakou demonstrates how the first activities 1-5 can be converted. Here's a video promo for my ESTA session on Saturday September 26, 2021.
There are so many advantages to implementing aural-based games and creative musical activities in the string class and ensemble; they increase student enjoyment, interaction and engagement, they allow students to improve their aural skills by responding to ‘off the page’ stimuli, and they help to develop students’ musical intuition, therefore acquiring higher levels of independence on their instrument. In time, students themselves can lead these games and activities, allowing peer-to-peer learning to occur — another rich learning opportunity for everyone. Informal activities such as games and creative exploration can be prioritised in the string class as a key tool for enhanced engagement and confidence in young musicians. Such activities also encourage students to develop independent compositional and improvisational skills, and also offer ‘brain-break’ opportunities. Activities in this session will all be aural-based, and will encompass elements of composing, arranging, improvisation, technical work and ensemble skills. |