Item description
Are you looking for rhythm materials that teach meter and time signature to your upper elementary or middle school music classes, band, or choir? This lesson on time signatures has everything you need to explain, practice, and assess students’ grasp of meters and measures.
This product includes:
- A 40-page presentation explaining time signatures.
- Provided in both PowerPoint and PDF formats
- Matching blank slides are provided to add more information or examples.
- A vocabulary sheet (PDF)
- A fully completed sheet
- A sheet with blanks for students to fill in as you go through the presentation
- A practice assignment with an answer key (PDF)
- A short 10-question quiz with an answer key (PDF)
Concepts Covered:
- Beat
- Meter
- Bar Lines
- Measures
- Time Signatures
At the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- Explain the terms above.
- Identify what each number of a time signature indicates
- Draw barlines where necessary in musical examples of varying meters
- Compose rhythms within certain metric parameters.
Both versions can easily be uploaded to your learning management system.
*For copyright purposes, all PDFs are protected from editing but can be printed and shared.