Middle School Music Interactive Notebook – middle school music lessons

This interactive music notebook gives middle school (5th and 6th grade) students a place to take notes, reflect, and create as they learn each concept. You can use the pages as notebook pages, worksheets, assessments, or evidence of learning, and you can edit the directions and music terms to fit the way you teach.

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What’s included

• A printable interactive notebook (PDF)
• An editable version (PowerPoint)
• A student checklist to keep track of every concept covered
• Input pages where students take notes, with space for extra notes
• Output pages where students apply, analyze, evaluate, and create with what they learned
• Foldable flaps students lift to test themselves, with printable cutouts
• A completed example of each page
• Instructions for use

Concepts covered

• Tempo, rhythm, pitch, dynamics, form, timbre, texture, and harmony
• Staff and symbols
• Instruments
• Composers
• Conducting
• Listening reflections

Formats

• PDF
• PowerPoint: The text is editable, so you can change the directions and music terms.

Important

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

Ways to use it

• No glue needed, so students only need scissors and pencils or crayons
• Interactive notebook pages students keep all year
• Worksheets or quick assessments after a lesson
• Evidence of learning for open house 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 →

Save with the bundle

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