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INSPIRE Music Curriculum: Creative Music and Composition Projects for K-12 Teachers and Students
Welcome to National Association for Music Education (NAfME) Composition Council Music In Our Schools Month® 2025 creating and composition publication for educators working with K-12 and tertiary students! We have…
First Grade Curriculum Design: Using the Same Repertoire for Many Purposes
Objectives: Students will identify and label rests in a familiar song. Download this resource to learn more.
Second Grade Curriculum Design: Using the Same Repertoire for Many Purposes
Objectives: Students will echo sing on so-mi. Students will create quarter note (ta), eighth notes (ti-ti), and quarter rest rhythms using popsicle sticks. Students will respond to music using a…
Third Grade Curriculum Design: Using the Same Repertoire for Many Purposes
Objectives: Vocal Development: Students will explore their head voice through a vocal exploration activity with a ribbon wand. Melody: Students will sing, decode, and read solfège notations do, re, mi,…
Fourth Grade Curriculum Design: Using the Same Repertoire for Many Purposes
Objectives: Students will improvise movement that reflects a variety of positional levels, weighted movements, and space. Students will respond to the formal structure of a folk dance through choreographed and…
Fourth & Fifth Grade Curriculum Design: Using the Same Repertoire for Many Purposes
Objectives: Improvisation: Students will use a blues scale to improvise melodies in question and answer form. Students will improvise 16 beat phrases over a moving bass line. Form: Students will…
Kindergarten Curriculum Design: Using the Same Repertoire for Many Purposes
Objectives: Students will use their singing voice and speaking voice. Students will create a shape using pipe cleaners (or yarn). Students will demonstrate melodic contour by singing their shape in…
NAfME Books
NAfME publishes books on all aspects of music education, including national standards, curriculum and assessment, special needs, multicultural music and curriculum, band, chorus, general music, jazz, early childhood, history, philosophy,…
