Description
These Irish music activities are perfect St. Patrick’s Day music activities for elementary lessons. Or use them at any time of year for a music around the world unit on Ireland!
Multiple versions of activities are included to help you adapt your lessons to different grades and ages. These activities are designed for elementary grades.
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Contents:
- YouTube listening links (examples for every musical instrument and piece)
- 12 (colour) Irish musical instrument posters with info (use these for a bulletin board).
- 12 (black and white) Irish instrument posters (the same posters as the color ones – use for reading & colouring activities)
- 5 (colour) posters about Irish music: jig, reel, hornpipe, air, and folk songs
- 5 (black and white) posters about Irish music (the same posters as in colour) – these work well for reading & colouring.
- 12 (colour) matching cards – Irish music instruments
- 12 (black and white) matching cards – Irish instruments
- Irish music Wordsearch
- Scavenger hunt in 2 levels (bingo board style scavenger hunts with 9 and 20 question versions)
- Matching worksheet (match each instrument to its family or type – strings, percussion, woodwind, or ‘wind instrument with a bellows’ – this includes accordion, concertina, and Uilleann pipes)
- 12 worksheets for students to trace and practice writing the instrument names (for younger ages)
- 12 worksheets with written questions about each Irish instrument – 1 page/instrument (for older ages)
- 12 listening glyph worksheets with music terminology (one title is left blank for your students to fill in with your choice of music). Use these to encourage active listening while exploring traditional Irish music.
- 12 listening glyph worksheets with general wording (the same pictures, with altered wording)
- 12 listen & draw worksheets (for younger ages)
- Answers (answers are included for everything except the listening glyphs where the answers can vary)
Start experiencing the music of Ireland and it’s instruments with your class today!
This is a digital download for you to print at home, It includes a zip file of PDFs due to the large number of activities that are included. No music recordings are included in the file.
