Instrument families

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Need an engaging activity to reinforce the instrument families? Need an emergency sub plan that can be used by a non-music sub? You should try this new resource--Instrument Family Races. This resource includes 24 instrument cards, 2 game versions, and a video demo. You only need to provide 4 or 8 hula hoops. I divide the class into 2 groups. Each team has 4 hula hoops to represent the 4 instrument families (string, woodwind, brass, percussion). The hoops will be on one side of the room. One…

One of the topics most of us teach in elementary general music that can easily become dry and boring to teach (and to learn) is the instruments of the orchestra. But it doesn't have to be! Today I'm sharing my 3 favorite ways to teach lower elementary students the 4 families of instruments in the orchestra. 1. Classical Pieces I'm sure this is an obvious choice for many- Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is an oldie but a goodie! The piece very clearly gives students a sense of the…

Some pictures of the various instrument families.

Video picture books for the music classroom will hook your students and transport them to a magical musical world. Best of all, it's free.

Use this instrument families worksheet to help your student learn to identify which instruments belong to the strings, woodwind, percussion, and brass families. We also have a free orchestra l

The String family: when playing an instrument in the string family, one can use his or her fingers to strum the string or draw a bow across the strings to make them vibrate. The vibrations are pretty quiet, so a a hollow part of the instruments body amplifies the sound. the Head of the instruments is where one end of the string is attached. Using knobs, you can tune your instrument to play different frequencies.

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Orchestra - 3rd grade