The Music Classroom Collection is a series of high-quality, practical resources to help primary teachers manage time, plan lessons and set-up their music class for success.
Created with today’s classrooms in mind, it is a teacher resource full of planning and organising tips, lesson ideas and also examples of how music activities and instrument resources can be differentiated across the curriculum. Lessons are designed to stimulate play, inquiry and develop students’ musical, cognitive and social and emotional skills.
The resources support primary teachers to confidently set-up and confidently deliver curriculum-aligned music education.
The collection has been developed as part of the in The Music in Schools – DUET: Teacher Mentoring Program (DUET), a collaboration between The Song Room and the Victorian Department of Education.
The collection includes the following courses:
What’s that Instrument?
This practical, time-saving resource helps teachers set-up a colourful, dynamic music space and delivery the music lessons with ease. It includes a reference guide to the most common instruments used in the Primary Classroom. As well as organising labels, curriculum stickers, instrument activity cards and a listening guide with links to music from around the world.
The Outdoor Music Classroom
Music is all around us, and the most beautiful sounds can be found most often in nature. This resource provides teachers with musical ideas inspired by the natural world as well as tips and strategies for how to teach music in the outdoor music classroom. Plus, learning in nature has a positive effect on students’ social and emotional learning.