6 ‘Extraordinarily Engaging’ Ways To Teach Tweens The History Of Music
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The history of music is a really engaging way in which to bring music lessons to the middle school aged kids in your homeschool.
Read through this post and download the worksheets I have made available so you can introduce your kids to music appreciation in a very fun and engaging way.
Create A Playlist
Yes, this is one of the easiest things to do and one that your tweens will likely love.
Select a specific era in music to focus on, then tell your tweens to create a playlist of music from that particular era in music.
Next, listen to the playlist everyday for the next week or two during your usual homeschooling day.
Composer And Instrument Studies
Your tweens can use the playlist that they created and research about the different composers whose music they were listening to and the instruments that were used in the compositions.
Learn about the life and works of the composers, the origins and evolution of the instruments and much more.
Create A Presentation
Research and create a presentation depicting life during the selected era.
Your tweens can cover aspects such as food, transportation, political events, clothing, social structures, political structure, architecture and much more.
Can you see, how you can start with music but expand it further?
Field Trips
Why not include some field trips and similar activities like going to the museum to learn more about the era, going to live performances of plays that were set in the era and more?
Can you think of other field trip ideas?
Please comment below.
History, And The Evolution Of Music As We Know It
You can take the presentation your tweens created about the selected era to a different level and ask them to research how major historic events in the given era influenced the music of the era and who the prominent musicians were and what inspired them.
Compose
How about asking your tweens to pretend to be composers and compose simple melodies that are in keeping with the style of music of the era?
There is no right or wrong way to do this, just have them listen to music from the era and ask them to try to improvise similar melodies and rhythms.
Do you think your tweens will like these ideas?
Comment below and let me know.
Karen Cadera
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