4th Grade Interactive Music Notebook – Music INB – music lessons

This interactive music notebook is a great tool for assessing 4th grade music students while encouraging creativity and student-centered learning. This file can be used in a variety of ways, including as traditional interactive notebook pages, worksheets, assessments, differentiated activities, evidence of learning, and more. It’s editable, so that you can customize student directions and/or adjust music terminology to fit your needs!

⚠️ Click HERE to see the digital version of this resource made for distance learning.

This resource is perfect for:

• elementary music teachers
• student teachers
• homeschoolers

WHAT YOU’LL GET WITH YOUR DOWNLOAD

• New version of the interactive notebook (portrait view)
• Old version of the interactive notebook (landscape view)
• Completed example of each page of the notebook
• Instructions for use

INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK PAGES INCLUDE

• Student checklist to keep track of all concepts covered
• Input page, with space for additional notes and the option to edit music terminology to fit your needs
• Output/reflection page, in which students use the information to apply, analyze, evaluate, and create.

SEQUENCING & EDITING NOTES

• Please note that all of the interactive notebooks are spiral sequenced, so you will find some terms repeated in other grade levels.
• All text is editable so that you can modify each page to fit your students’ needs

CONCEPTS COVERED

► Tempo

• Lento, Largo, Adagio, Andante, Allegro, Vivace, Presto

► Rhythm

• Notes: whole, half, quarter, barred eighths, barred sixteenths, syncopation
• Rests: whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth

► Pitch

• do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do’

► Dynamics

• pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff, crescendo, decrescendo

► Form

• binary, ternary, rondo, theme & variations

► Timbre

• environmental, machine, voice type, woodwind, brass, percussion, keyboard, strings, electronic

► Texture

• thin and thick

► Harmony

• interval, step, skip, leap, chord, major, minor

► Recorder

• Fingerings: C4 – C5

► Staff & Symbols

• treble & bass clef, staff, line notes, space notes, ledger line, time signature (2/4, 3/4, 4/4), barline, double barline, repeat sign

► Instruments

• wind, brass, percussion, strings, keyboard, soprano, alto, tenor, bass

► Composers

• 18 total from medieval-modern of western art music

► Conducting

• conducting patterns (2/4, 3/4, 4/4)

► Listening Reflections

► Listening Prompts