March Music Madness | Meter Activity Lesson | Composition Cards & Beat Strips

Are you looking to add more composition into your music lessons? This set of March Madness Music Meter Composition Cards and Beat Strips is a great manipulative to use for rhythmic notation and dictation in your elementary music classroom! Students will use basketball themed words to create compositions in given meters.

There are many ways to use these composition cards including: rhythm reading, rhythm writing, rhythmic dictation, rhythm composition, improvisation and more! When you purchase, you'll also receive bonus meter composition worksheets that students can use to write out their creations!

Included:

• Cards with Standard Notation Rhythms (listed below)
• "Easy" 2-Beat Basketball Themed Rhythm Cards (using only quarter and eighth notes)
• "Hard" 1-Beat Basketball Themed Rhythm Cards (using eighth and sixteenth note combinations)
• Basketball Themed Beat Strips
• BONUS: Meter Composition Worksheets

Rhythms Included:

1. Quarter Note and Barred Eighths (Ta and Titi)
2. Quarter Rest (Shh)
3. Half Note (Ta-a)
4. Sixteenth Notes (Tika Tika)
5. Eighth/Sixteenth Combinations (Ti Tika and Tika Ti)

*Note: No actual syllables are used in this resource, so it can be used with any pedagogy!

Be sure to check out the PREVIEW for more information about this resource!

Music review doesn't have to be boring! Increase engagement in your elementary music lessons by adding independent activities like this set of composition cards! These activities encourage mastery of music concepts through independent learning. Students love the game and play aspects while teachers watch their students learn and retain concepts!

This set of Meter Composition Cards & Beat Strips is perfect for:

• Meter Review
• Time Signature Review
• Composition
• Independent Work
• Small Groups
• Rhythm Stations
• Early Finishers
• Rhythm Assessment
• Rhythmic Dictation