Teaching Resources

Weighted ribbon streamers with attitude! 

See relative sizes of the instruments, with names in English, Spanish, French and German. Hang one and puzzle together the 1000 piece jigsaw.

Orchestrate songs, stories, & poems with rhythm instruments!

Name the instruments, group them in families, aurally identify them. PDF Guide has many more games/activities.  Set of 27.

Use our interactive silicone manipulatives as spot markers in games of direction and movement, twister and more.

Clever counting rhyme introduces instruments and musical terms plus use MGR Ensemble dots to make these terms “stick”!

Play Cheryl Lavender's bingo with individual cards or play team games by listening to the audio examples and placing the correct MGR on the whiteboard.

As Bernstien narrates on the CD, follow along on the chart and identify the animal by placing an MGR instrument dot on the whiteboard.

Introduce the instruments with the activities, and audio CD by Artie Almeida and our silicone manipulatives of the instruments.  

Introduce the instruments with the story of Tubby the Tuba by Paul Tripp and use the manipulatives for kids to identify and place them on whiteboard when reading or listening to the music.

Create rhythm grooves, choose patterns of rhythms and instruments to create a sound story or chant, set up a groove, select instruments and ensembles groupings, listen to music and guess the ensemble.

Children playing world instruments in settings around the globe.

Children of different cultures share a love of music. Kostadin of Bulgaria has a passion for the kaval, a type of flute, but his father frowns on it because he needs his help in the fields.

Children of different cultures share one thing: a love of music which is their source of joy and motivation. Carlito lives in Columbia and wants to play accordion in the "Vallenato" musical style that he grew up hearing.

Children around the world share a passion for music.  Lucumi, from Havana, has heard the drums all his life and dreams of becoming a great rhumbero.

Children of different cultures share one thing: a love of music which is their source of joy and motivation.  12 yr. old Antonio lives in Andalusia. Born into a Gypsy family of flamenco artists, he dreams of performing on television.