Digital 4th Grade Music Interactive Notebook – fourth grade INB – digital INB

This digital interactive music notebook lets 4th grade students take notes, reflect, and create on their own devices. Every word is editable, so you can change the directions and music terms to fit the way you teach.

Prefer paper? See the printable version.

What’s included

• The digital interactive notebook
• An answer key for the pages that have one
• Directions for making copies, editing text, and assigning the notebook

Concepts covered

• Tempo: lento, largo, adagio, andante, allegro, vivace, presto
• Rhythm: whole, half, quarter, barred eighth, and barred sixteenth notes, syncopation; whole, half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth rests
• Pitch: do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, high do
• Dynamics: pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff, crescendo, decrescendo
• Form: binary, ternary, rondo, theme and variations
• Timbre: environmental, machine, voice types, woodwind, brass, percussion, keyboard, strings, electronic
• Texture: thin and thick
• Harmony: interval, step, skip, leap, chord, major, minor
• Recorder: fingerings from C4 to C5
• Staff and symbols: treble and bass clef, staff, line and space notes, ledger lines, 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time, bar line, double bar line, repeat sign
• Instruments: wind, brass, percussion, strings, keyboard; soprano, alto, tenor, bass
• Composers: 18 from medieval to modern
• Conducting: 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 patterns
• Listening reflections and listening prompts

Formats

• PDF
• Google Slides: A link is included in your download and lets you add your own copy to Google Drive.
• PowerPoint

Important

• The notebooks are spiral sequenced, so some terms repeat from one grade level to the next.

Ways to use it

• Digital notebooks students keep all year in Google Classroom or another platform
• Quick assessments after a lesson
• Evidence of learning for conferences or observations
• To plan which concepts to teach each year, pair it with the free Music Concept Checklist.

Standards (NCAS)

• Creating: Anchor Standard 1 (generate and conceptualize artistic ideas)
• Responding: Anchor Standard 7 (perceive and analyze artistic work)

License & help

This purchase is for one teacher to use with their own students. Each teacher needs their own copy. See the full terms of sale →

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Try it free

Not sure interactive notebooks will work in your classroom? The free Music Interactive Notebook Sampler has a page from every grade level. Download the free sampler →