If you're looking to add Flat for Education to your classroom, you might still be wondering how to incorporate it. That's why we've compiled some lesson ideas to help you get started. You can read them below, or check them out in our series of short videos.
Timbre — Choose a folk song your students know, create a score on Flat for Education, and change the instrument using the software. Listen with your students and discuss timbre.
Note Names — Create a score from a popular song, add annotations, activate solfège note heads, and ask students to insert notes on the staff. Auto-generate assignments using the worksheet feature.
Rhythm — Use auto-graded worksheets for rhythm exercises, or create composition assignments where students write counts above rhythms in different meters. Great activities: write rhythms inspired by themes, transcribe melodies, rhythmic dictations.
Compositions — Starter ideas: write words with notes (using only A–G), find the missing notes, copy a composition from the board. Advanced ideas: complete a Mozart minuet template, compose a season for Vivaldi's Four Seasons, create music to accompany a video clip.
Chords — Ask students to build and name chords, assess performance with recordings, or have students re-write standard notation into TABS.
Dynamics — Use performance assignments to have students record the same piece at different dynamic levels. Use composition assignments to ask students to add dynamics and a crescendo or decrescendo.
Scales — Use auto-graded worksheets for scale recognition and construction. Create "find the mistake" assignments or have students find chromatic scales in a melody.
Performance assignments — Great for choruses: assign each student their voice part and have them record themselves. Use the transposition tool to adapt songs to students' voices.
Kodály method — Alternate between letter notations and hand signs. Practice "Ta Ti Ti" rhythm syllables with score templates.
If you have any questions or would like to share activity ideas, email us at edu@flat.io