All General/Vocal Music Units

Explore all General and Vocal Music unit plans featuring engaging, standards-aligned lessons that build musical skills, creativity, and performance confidence.

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Grade 1 Music Units

Unit Plan 8 (Grade 1 Music): Sound Exploration

First graders explore classroom instruments and vocal sounds to improvise simple patterns and sound stories, compare timbres, and use picture symbols to record and organize their musical ideas for sharing.

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Unit Plan 7 (Grade 1 Music): Fast & Slow

First graders explore tempo by moving, singing, and playing at fast and slow speeds while keeping a steady beat, then describe how tempo changes the feeling and purpose of music in listening and performance.

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Unit Plan 6 (Grade 1 Music): Loud & Soft

Grade 1 students explore dynamics by performing and identifying loud vs. soft contrasts in songs, movement, and instruments, describing how volume choices change musical feeling and expression.

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Unit Plan 5 (Grade 1 Music): High & Low Sounds

Explore high and low pitch with singing, movement, and simple melodic improv in this Grade 1 music unit—build pitch direction, contour, and listening skills fast.

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Unit Plan 4 (Grade 1 Music): Beat in Songs

Grade 1 music unit where students keep a steady beat while singing and chanting, using simple rehearsal strategies to fix tricky parts in songs.

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Unit Plan 3 (Grade 1 Music): Steady Beat Basics

Grade 1 music unit where students keep a steady beat with body percussion and movement, exploring marches, dances, and lullabies and their purposes.

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Unit Plan 2 (Grade 1 Music): Singing & Speaking Voices

Differentiate speaking, whispering, calling, and singing voices in Grade 1 music as students keep a steady beat, explore melodic contour in simple songs, and improvise short rhythmic or melodic voice patterns for specific purposes.

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Unit Plan 1 (Grade 1 Music): Music Routines & Listening

Build Grade 1 music listening routines and discussion skills as students practice music-ready behavior, connect musical examples to feelings and classroom purposes, and share simple opinions using personal interests and experiences.

Grade 2 Music Units

Unit Plan 36 (Grade 2 Music): Music Sharing Day

Grade 2 music unit where students perform confidently for peers, showing expression, accuracy, and respectful performer and audience behavior.

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Unit Plan 35 (Grade 2 Music): Preparing to Perform

Grade 2 music unit: rehearse with practice strategies and kind feedback to improve accuracy, expression, and confidence before performing.

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Unit Plan 34 (Grade 2 Music): Independent Music Centers

Grade 2 music unit using independent centers to improvise rhythms and melodies, explore beat and meter, and apply music concepts through hands-on stations.

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Unit Plan 33 (Grade 2 Music): Expressing Music Opinions

Grade 2 music unit where students share music opinions using simple vocabulary and choose songs that best fit classroom purposes like calm work or movement.

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Unit Plan 32 (Grade 2 Music): Favorite Songs

Grade 2 music unit where students rehearse and perform favorite songs with accuracy and expression, using a simple checklist and feedback to improve for a purpose.

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Unit Plan 31 (Grade 2 Music): Music & Imagination

Grade 2 music unit where students use imagination, movement, and creative play to improvise sounds that express ideas, feelings, and personal interests.

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Unit Plan 30 (Grade 2 Music): Revising Music Ideas

Grade 2 music unit where students revise musical ideas using self, peer, and teacher feedback to improve clarity, expression, and confidence.

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Unit Plan 29 (Grade 2 Music): Rhythm Games

Grade 2 music unit using rhythm games to build steady beat, rhythm accuracy, cultural awareness, and rehearsal strategies for confident, cooperative performance.

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Unit Plan 28 (Grade 2 Music): Sound Pictures

Grade 2 Music unit where students create sound pictures inspired by images, improvising rhythms and melodies to show mood, action, and expressive intent in a final performance.

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Unit Plan 27 (Grade 2 Music): Group Performance

Grade 2 Music unit builds collaborative performance skills—focus, cooperation, and audience/performer decorum—rehearsing songs for a specific purpose with accurate rhythm/pitch, expression, and appropriate tempo/dynamics.

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Unit Plan 26 (Grade 2 Music): Musical Storytelling

Grade 2 music unit: students create and perform sound stories that represent characters and actions using simple rhythms/melodies, guided by personal interests, and explain their expressive intent.

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Unit Plan 25 (Grade 2 Music): Call & Response Songs

Grade 2 music unit: sing call-and-response/echo songs accurately, use rehearsal strategies to fix tricky parts, and improvise simple rhythmic/melodic responses for classroom purposes.

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Unit Plan 24 (Grade 2 Music): Cultural Movement

Move to world music in this Grade 2 unit as students explore different cultures and styles, demonstrate understanding of meter (duple/triple) and tempo, and connect music to movement, celebrations, contexts, and daily life through respectful, school-safe dance patterns.

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Unit Plan 23 (Grade 2 Music): Music Around the World

Explore music from different cultures in this Grade 2 unit as students listen, move, draw, and discuss how world music connects to stories, dance, visual art, daily life, and special events, building respect and cultural awareness.

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Unit Plan 22 (Grade 2 Music): Music in Our Lives

Grade 2 unit connecting music to home, school, and community as students share a “Music in My Life” map, explaining how interests, knowledge, and skills shape choices.

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Unit Plan 21 (Grade 2 Music): Music & Movement Stories

Grade 2 unit where students respond to music with movement and simple storytelling, using tempo, dynamics, pitch, and mood to show expressive intent, then perform a short movement-story “final version” for peers with brief explanations of their choices.

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Unit Plan 20 (Grade 2 Music): Music Preferences

Grade 2 unit where students choose and compare music for classroom purposes, using personal experiences and details like tempo, dynamics, beat, and mood to justify preferences.