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Get ready to energize your classroom with this original song – it's got a catchy hook, a full Orff arrangement, and viral buzz! Ideal for elementary music teachers looking to spark joy and creativity, this upbeat anthem celebrates the sounds all around us and gets students singing, playing, and moving in no time. Whether your students are layering xylophone patterns, adding body percussion, or creating their own rhythms with classroom objects, this song opens the door to endless exploration. Available in print and digital formats, it includes a teaching guide with guiding questions, connection to National Core Arts Standards, a lyric sheet, and a music activity/game; a ukulele chord chart; a full-score Orff arrangement; and parts for voice, soprano glockenspiel, soprano xylophone, alto xylophone, soprano/alto metallophone, shakers, tambourine, bongo, clave, drum, bass xylophone, bass metallophone, and body percussion.

Music Is Everywhere

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A delightful sing-along, this engaging book is ideal for children ages 1–7 and is available in print, digital download, and online formats. The rhythmic lyrics combined with bright and captivating illustrations and the option for body percussion create an enchanting experience that will hold a child's attention from start to finish. Find the song on YouTube for a free body percussion play-along. The available teaching guide includes worksheets, resources for cross-curricular learning, sheet music, and more! The digital teaching guide also includes links to MP3s, PDFs, and more. Whether used at home or in the classroom, this sing-along book is an excellent resource for fostering musical skills in young children!

Watermelon, Watermelon

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Available as a paperback book, digital download, or as an interactive online Flipbook, this collection of Vietnamese children's songs and accompanying activities is ideal for children ages 3–10. The illustrated songbook is divided into two parts – the nine songs, plus content about the mid-autumn harvest moon festival – and includes background cultural information and supplemental Vietnamese language guidance. Each song includes musical notation, Vietnamese lyrics, and an English translation, and each is set within a colorful illustration that evokes the playfulness of childhood. The digital download and online versions also include recordings of each song along with recorded pronunciation help. The available teaching guide includes cultural context for each song as well as musical content to focus on while teaching. Don't miss out on this resource rich in content and fun for your students!

The Vietnamese Children's Songbook

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An invaluable resource for teachers dedicated to fostering social-emotional learning (SEL) in children, this companion book is designed to be a fun interactive guide that aligns with Narwhals Waterfalls' album Full Circle SEL, available on streaming services like YouTube, iTunes, Amazon Music, and Spotify, or for sale on the author's site. Offering a variety of engaging lesson plans, activities, and tools to help children understand and manage their emotions, this curriculum covers a variety of musical components like ukulele, percussion, composition, singing, and more. By incorporating music, movement, and discussion, this empowering resource makes learning SEL concepts meaningful and enjoyable. Available in paperback and digital formats; the digital version includes the full PDF guide plus MP3 backing tracks, MP3 full tracks, and lyric videos for each of the ten songs.

Full Circle SEL

It's a party on the playground, and you're all invited! After a long day of professional development, a group of music teachers makes their way to the playground and begins exploring all of the different sounds. After a few minutes, they find a groove they like and record their very first ditty. This resource gives music teachers ideas on how to incorporate this song into their curriculum to build community, make music, and have fun. Available in digital and print formats, this kit includes a teaching guide with lesson plans, lyrics, and activities, a lead sheet of the song, and a full score and parts of an Orff arrangement. The digital version also includes demonstration and MP3 recordings, with clickable links to recordings. A YouTube video of the song and rhythm stick routine is available no matter which format you choose. Great fun and a great value – you and your students are going to love this one!

Party on the Playground

Pop-inspired, full of possibilities, and fun to play, these five original grooves for Orff ensemble serve as a starting place to foster creativity with students. Each piece can be performed as is or adapted for your specific purposes, allowing space for improvisation, original lyrics, rearrangement, and more. The musical ideas are derived from pop music, with each melody beginning in a simple rhythmic form and iterating to a fully realized melodic idea. These iterations illuminate motivic development and provide a step-by-step approach to advanced concepts such as ties and syncopations. Students are prompted with directions and colors to gradually add complexity. Each arrangement includes a full score and individual parts for voice, soprano glockenspiel, alto glockenspiel, soprano xylophone, alto xylophone, bass xylophone, contrabass bar, shaker, bongos, and congas. The digital version includes the full score and parts as a PDF as well as MP3 MIDI recordings and a link to a YouTube score video for each piece. Get your students moving and grooving with these original pieces!

5 Pop Grooves for Orff Ensemble

Do you have rhythm sticks or Boomwhackers collecting dust? Are you in need of relevant music to engage your students? With these four original songs for Boomwhackers and rhythm sticks, students and teachers will be immersed in an inspiring musical experience. Each song includes a color-coded full score, a color-coded Boomwhacker part, and a part for rhythm sticks. A teaching guide with lyric sheets is also included. The digital version includes the full score, instrumental parts and teaching guide in PDF format, MP4 play-along videos, and MP3 backing tracks. Build community and musicianship through active music making with this engaging resource!

StickBOOM!, Vol. 1

Instrument

Have you ever turned on the radio and wondered what time signature that Ariana Grande song is in? After reading through this resource, you may start to hear the connections between academic music curricula and popular music everywhere you go. The author, a public-school music teacher and music education scholar, has compiled popular songs that feature the concepts she teaches in the classroom: jazz and classical samples; various meters and time signatures; cross-rhythms; melodic intervals; modulations; modes; and cadences. Songs discussed in this book cover a pop timeline from the 1950s to 2021 across a diverse range of genres and artists in popular music. The work also contains lesson plans, artist features, and short essays on popular music pedagogy. If you want to integrate more popular music into your music classroom or learn more yourself, this resource is for you!

A Rebel Music Teacher Guide to Teachable Features in Popular Music

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Perfect for Halloween, this silly and sweet book is ideal for kids ages 1–7 and is available in print, digital download, and online formats. A story written as a song, this book shows kids that it's okay to be shy, it's okay to ask for help, and most importantly, that good friends are always there to offer some encouragement and help you find your voice. A recording of the accompanying song is available on the author's website with a code inside the book or on YouTube. The online interactive Flipbook includes Spanish and English versions and an interactive sound component. The available teaching guide includes worksheets, sheet music, a chord sheet, activities, and more! The digital teaching guide also includes links to MP3s, PDFs, and more.

The Shy Little Monster

As music educators continue to explore ways of learning and teaching popular music, blending traditional and nontraditional pedagogies that engage teachers and learners in authentic practices is of vital importance. To meet this emerging need, this resource delves into the practices and philosophies of 26 experienced music educators who understand both the how and the why of popular music education. A celebration of the beauty in the lack of uniformity in popular music education, this edited collection represents the variety, the diversity, and the multiplicity of ideas and approaches to the teaching and learning of popular music. These actionable approaches, practices, applications, lessons, and ideas will enable music educators to understand how to better incorporate popular music into their teaching.

Action-Based Approaches in Popular Music Education

Looking for a way to make the study of introductory music theory more engaging, collaborative, meaningful, and approachable for high-school students? This book includes an overview of constructivism and constructivist pedagogy as well as full, detailed lesson plans for ten units of study in beginning music theory. The ideal supplement to your existing introductory music theory curriculum, the units of study and the lessons themselves are flexible enough to fit with any textbook series or existing materials. The ten units of study are: note reading; simple meters; compound meters; scale patterns and relationships; key signatures; intervals; triads; Roman numeral analysis; cadences; and form. Each unit consists of two lessons aligned with the National Core Arts Standards for Music and includes the materials needed for each lesson with formative and summative assessments.

An Introductory Music Theory Curriculum for High School Students

A comprehensive curriculum guide for secondary general music education, this resource is focused on the study of musicology, music philosophy, and music theory of music across cultures worldwide and in pop culture. Students learn to compose, perform, analyze, and appreciate music through different perspectives and inclusive discussions focusing on musical identity. An extensive curriculum, it includes topics like music theory, history, technology, composition and performance, musical theater, social justice, and more. It provides educators with objectives, lesson plans, informal and formal assessment ideas, rubrics, and a curriculum outline to share with school leadership. Flexible and adaptable, it offers a wide range of materials to learn with students, is tailored to work with limited resources, and provides a variety of learning opportunities for students and educators alike.

Navigating Music Appreciation Through Interpretation

An engaging book with vibrant colors and easy-to-follow text and rhythms, this powerful story teaches students that music is everywhere. It's available in print, digital download, and online formats. The digital download and online Flipbook versions include an audio component that aids younger students in auditory learning, making the story even more interactive. The accompanying teaching guide and activities – word search, worksheets, story questions, and coloring pages – help focus on key learning strategies and standards while keeping learning fun and engaging.

Edward's Rhythm Sticks

A follow up to StickBOOM! Vol. 1, these five original songs for Boomwhackers and rhythm sticks are relevant to students and engage them in active music making. Each song includes a color-coded full score, a color-coded Boomwhacker part, and a part for rhythm sticks. A teaching guide with lyric sheets is also included. The digital version includes the full score, instrumental parts and teaching guide in PDF format, as well as MP4 play-along videos and MP3 backing track recordings. Build community and musicianship through active music making with this engaging resource!

StickBOOM!, Vol. 2

It's everyone's favorite day in music class: instrument selection day! Even though Rosie has waited for this day all year, she is nervous to try the instrument she has always dreamed of playing – the electric guitar. Join Rosie as she learns how to find her voice, work with others as a team, and face her fears. Available in print, digital download, and online formats, this heartfelt story includes details about the electric guitar and the women who helped pave the way for musicians today along with eye-catching illustrations to keep students engaged. The interactive online Flipbook includes narration and other sound elements. A teaching guide is also available that includes lesson plans, activities, and more!

Rosie Rocks!

Ruthie's favorite music store is closed! Undeterred, she and her best friend Frankie create makeshift instruments and start playing in the streets. They inspire friends to join, and together they create a joyful symphony that unites the community, showing the power of music to uplift spirits and bring people together in hope and resilience. Available in print, digital download, and online formats, this storybook is an engaging and enriching resource for general music classes. The interactive online Flipbook includes narration, music, and clickable elements. A teaching guide is also available with extension activities, printables, sheet music of an original song included in the book, and an MP3 of the song (available via QR code or link).

Onward & Upward

Available in print, digital download, and online formats, this musical storybook tells the story of Pati, an American Dominican girl who visits her grandmother in the Dominican Republic during the summertime. Nurtured by her Mami (Mommy) and Abuelita (Granny), Pati goes on a musical exploration into one of the most widespread Dominican folkloric musical traditions, los palos, and learns about the instruments, rhythmic patterns, singing, and meaning embedded in the musical expression. Through it she becomes one with the people in a big celebration of life and love! The digital download and online interactive Flipbook include both the English and Spanish versions. The Flipbook also includes narration and music from the Dominican Republic. A teaching guide is also available that includes background information on Dominican folk music, standards connections, lesson activities, coloring pages, a vocal score, and an instrumental score for percussion instruments.

From Across the Street

Filling a need in an area with few resources available, this book is a comprehensive adaptive curriculum for grade 9–12 learners in a self-contained special-needs music class. Written by a teacher of adaptive music, this curriculum is broad enough to be flexible and useful but specific enough to be helpful for teachers who don't know where to start. In this book you will find research to support a well-rounded education for students with special needs, templates for goal tracking, lesson planning, and more, and suggestions for lesson and unit ideas for your students.

Adaptive Music

Including 30 pages of bucket drumming instruction in a slideshow or print format, this resource contains eight lessons that cover topics such as classroom setup, warm-ups, freestyle, and playing in rock, bachata, old school, hip-hop, dancehall, second line, Afropop, and reggaeton styles. Every lesson begins with a warm-up that strengthens musicianship, coordination, and drumming skills and finishes with beats, solos, call-and-response vocals – and smiles! A complete YouTube series to accompany every lesson and beat is included, as well as direct links or QR codes to soundtracks published on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music. "Rhythmojis" overlay standard music notation with food notation, making learning rhythms easy and fun! Embrace rhythm, creativity, and joy with these lessons while also working on SEL competencies and student leadership. Each purchase is good for one classroom license to duplicate for students.

FoodBeatz for Bucketz

Do you want to write songs but don't know where to start? Are you an educator looking to incorporate more songwriting in the classroom but don't know how? This book is for you! From practical strategies to spaces for personal reflection, this interactive resource provides tools and support for musicians and educators who want to embrace creativity and personal expression. With this text, you will gain practical ideas to begin or enhance your songwriting as well as classroom practices that will transform your teaching. Connect to your creative self and inspire your students with this incredibly helpful resource!

Songwriting for Music Educators

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