Classroom music resources for your every need.
Catering for the secondary school classroom - Years 7 to 13. Including GCSE and A Level specific lessons and activities.
Classroom music resources for your every need.
Catering for the secondary school classroom - Years 7 to 13. Including GCSE and A Level specific lessons and activities.
Give the gift of fun revision to your students with this engaging Badinerie revision guide. This revision guide follows EDUQAS exam board guidance and is presented in a creative, visual format.
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Interested in more EDUQAS revision guides? Get the following here:
Africa: /teaching-resource/gcse-music-revision-africa-13202235
Elements of Music: /teaching-resource/gcse-music-revision-elements-of-music-13187576
Full Practise Question Set: /teaching-resource/gcse-music-exam-question-booklet-13194540
Test your EDUQAS GCSE Music knowledge with this set of 18 flashcards. Perfect to give to students as revision support, or use as starter activities in the run up to exam season.
Flashcards are single sided and allow students to fill in the missing the information.
Topic Covered:
Elements of Music Key Terms
Badinerie
Africa
Question Paper Terminology (compositional device, rhythmic device etc.)
AOS3: Film Music
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Give the gift of fun revision to your students with this engaging Africa revision guide. This revision guide follows EDUQAS exam board guidance and is presented in a creative, visual format.
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Interested in more EDUQAS revision guides? Get the following here:
Badinerie: /teaching-resource/gcse-music-revision-badinerie-13202229
Elements of Music: /teaching-resource/gcse-music-revision-elements-of-music-13187576
Full Practise Question Set: /teaching-resource/gcse-music-exam-question-booklet-13194540
Support your students’ GCSE Music revision with this revision checklist suitable for the EDUQAS exam board.
The list indicates all of the areas students need to revise for the exam, and allows them to rate their confidence level either before or after their revision. This is a great way to help students prioritise certain elements of the paper and revise successfully.
Suggested revision resources can be linked to each revision topic. You may fill this in as the teacher to guide students towards your own resources or classwork. Alternatively, hand out the pre-filled checklist with links to revision guides from The Music Educator’s Vault TES store.
Note: Files are PDF format.
Good luck embarking on your revision journey!
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Enhance your students’ musical understanding with this wider listening quiz SAMPLE —perfect for regular homework, revision, or classroom extension activities.
What’s Included:
1 Google Form Quiz: Features a YouTube link and two carefully crafted questions. These questions test students’ ability to identify the musical genre and provide an extended response answer to support their analysis.
Google Classroom Ready: The quiz is formatted as a Google Form, making it easy to upload directly to Google Classroom.
How It Works:
Download: Download the sample resource to access the PowerPoint file.
Find the Link: The ‘Week 1’ slide contains a unique Google Form link in the notes section.
Make a Copy: Copy the link into your browser and create your own copy of the form in your Google Drive. You MUST complete this step. This step ensures that the original quiz remain unchanged for other buyers.
Enjoyed this resource? Purchase the whole pack (17 listening quizzes) here: /teaching-resource/gcse-music-17-wider-listening-quizzes-13202265
Fancy a game of snakes and ladders to test your knowledge of EDUQAS A Level Music? A fun way to revise key knowledge or practise exam style questions!
Step 1: Choose your board. Will it be Rock n Pop, Musical Theatre, Jazz or 20th/21st Century?
Step 2: Create your quiz questions.
Step 3: Start at the bottom of the board and roll the dice to move through spaces.
Step 4: When you land on a labelled square (E.g. WCT) answer a question about the music in that style. Get the question right and you can stay, get it wrong and you’ll have to go back to the start!
This resource is the board only (4 boards included) - perfect for getting your students to create their own quiz questions to challenge their peers with!
Need some pre-made exam style questions? Purchase the ready made board and card pack, complete with 50+ exam practise questions here: /teaching-resource/eduqas-a2-music-snakes-and-ladders-full-12978436
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Unlock the magic of film composition with this accessible Toy Story-themed leitmotif composition worksheet! This is the perfect resource to complement any KS3 or KS4 film music composition lesson.
Start off by choosing your character. Will your students choose a hero like Woody or Buzz? Or a villain like Zurg or Lotso?
Then, follow the step by step guidance on planning your elements and incorporating them into a new, magical character leitmotif.
This is an accessible, differentiated resource with characters and key terms to offer a variety of challenges. When composing, students may write their melodies in the boxes, or even notate them on the stave.
Great for:
Music Theory & Composition Lessons
Film Music Schemes of Work
Bring storytelling to your music - “to infinity and beyond!”
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Dive into the rich, soulful world of blues with this accessible keyboard worksheet covering the 12 bar blues and walking bass. Featuring colour coded notation (labelled) and keyboard chord diagrams, this resource makes learning the blues fun and easy. Perfect for the Key Stage 3 classroom and use within Blues Music and Rock n Roll schemes of work.
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Fully annotated score for Toto’s Africa. Perfect for EDUQAS GCSE Music. Use as a teaching aid or revision resource.
*Please note: This is resource contains a hand annotated score for Africa only. *
This resource can be purchased alongside exam questions for both Africa and Badinerie in the full EDUQAS GCSE Music exam pack. Find the annotated score for Africa AND Badinerie in the Teacher’s Answer Book. Get the full pack here: /teaching-resource/gcse-music-exam-question-booklet-13194540
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Fully annotated score for Bach’s Badinerie. Perfect for EDUQAS GCSE Music. Use as a teaching aid or revision resource.
*Please note: This is resource contains a hand annotated score for Badinerie only. *
This resource can be purchased alongside exam questions for both Badinerie and Africa in the full EDUQAS GCSE Music exam pack. Find the annotated score for Badinerie AND Africa in the Teacher’s Answer Book. Get the full pack here: /teaching-resource/gcse-music-exam-question-booklet-13194540
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Help your students master improvising over a 12-bar blues pattern with this differentiated worksheet, designed to support a range of abilities.
What’s Included:
Bronze: Freedom of rhythm with specific note choices.
Silver: Freedom of rhythm with a wider choice of notes.
Gold: Freedom of rhythm using the blues scale.
Extension: Two-handed playing for advanced learners.
Perfect for:
Key Stage 3 music classrooms
Blues Music and Rock ‘n’ Roll schemes of work
Differentiated learning and improvisation practice
Why You’ll Love It:
Differentiated Levels: Supports all learners
Engaging & Practical: Encourages creativity while building improvisation skills.
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Turn key terms revision into an exciting game with this GCSE Music Snakes and Ladders pack! Perfect for individual study, group work, or classroom competitions. Use it as part of a lesson, intervention class or revision session.
How to Play:
Start at square 1 and roll the dice to move across the board.
Land on a keyword? Define it correctly to stay put. If you get it wrong, go back to the beginning!
First to reach the finish wins!
What’s Included:
A printable Snakes and Ladders game board. (Don’t want to print? Simply display it on your whiteboard and use post-it notes as counters!)
20+ keyword definition cards for accurate self-checking
(Dice and counters not included)
Why You’ll Love It:
Fun & Interactive: Engage with GCSE Music content in a playful, stress-free way.
Exam Ready: Reinforce key terminology to boost your confidence and exam success.
Versatile Use: Ideal for solo revision, peer practice, or classroom activities
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Worksheets and teacher slides for a music cover lesson on Latin American Music and Samba.
The lesson includes all necessary audio, plus worksheets featuring three activities. The activities include a listening, reading and creative task. The lesson has been designed to be delivered without practical instruments and is perfect for a non-specialist.
Prior teaching on the topic is recommended.
Please note: This resource includes both printable materials and audio files (MP3 format).
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EDUQAS GCSE Music revision guide focussing on exam technique. Learn how to apply your existing Music GCSE knowledge to exam style questions by understanding question terminology and marking criteria. At the end of the booklet, put this revision into practise with sample exam questions.
This guide goes through the EDUQAS GCSE Music exam paper question by question, suggesting common question types and top tips on how to answer. It highlights all the terminology students need to understand what the question is asking them. The perfect companion to ‘GCSE Music Revision: Elements of Music’ (The Music Educator’s Vault).
Please note:
YouTube access is required for listening questions. Simply search the title indicated by the question to access the appropriate audio
This resource also features as part of the ‘GCSE Music: Exam Question Booklet’
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Turn exam practise questions into a board game. The perfect revision exercise for Eduqas GCSE Music.
Choose your counter and place it at the start.
Roll the dice and move your counter to the nearest coloured square that matches the colour on the dice.
Once on that square you must pick up a card of the same colour and answer the question. You are not allowed to roll again until you can correctly answer the question from that colour.
If you land on a square with a stave bridge, you may choose which square you stay on (and therefore which coloured question you answer!)
The first person to reach the finish wins.
There are 6 coloured categories of exam style practise questions:
Melody, Instruments & Dynamics
Harmony, Tonality & Musical Features
Rhythm, Tempo & Metre
Structure & Texture
Africa
Badinerie
Note: Questions are exam style listening questions and access to the internet will be required to listen to the pieces.
Dice not included.
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Double sided worksheet and teacher slides for a music cover lesson on film music. Suitable for both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.
The lesson includes six short activities: a starter, listening task, composition task (without instruments), a film technique question, reading activity and reflection. The lesson has been designed to be delivered without instruments or computers, though the lesson is easily adaptable to include a practical element should you wish. Prior teaching on the elements of music is recommended.
This is the perfect music lesson for a written music lesson or cover lesson with a non-specialist.
Please note: This resource includes both printable materials and audio files (MP3 format).
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GCSE Music revision guide covering all elements of music. Explore the musical definitions of key terms, before applying them into exam style questions. Suitable for any exam board, however written with Eduqas in mind.
This resource is any music students’ perfect companion. Exam technique is half the battle when it comes to sitting a GCSE in music, so whether the students need to revise for mock exams or the real deal in Year 11, this revision guide will help solidify elements of music knowledge and secure understanding of how to apply key terms to exam scenarios.
It is especially valuable to students that may require additional intervention, as the guide takes things back to basics before increasing the difficulty. Set it as homework, hand it out at parents evenings, use it in intervention/catch-up sessions or even use it to complement initial elements lessons at the start of the course. The guide is so versatile and a must for GCSE exam success!
Please note: This resource requires YouTube access for listening questions. Simply search the title indicated by the question to access the appropriate audio
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Double sided worksheet, teacher slides and sheet music for a music cover lesson on Keyboard Skills.
Start by recapping the keyboard and labelling the all the keys, before completing 3 tasks (match up, listening activity & reading task) on the different types of keyboard instruments. Finally, finish with a creative task using the keyboards in your classroom.
This resource includes four sheet music options, suitable for a range of abilities. All notes are labelled.
This is the perfect music lesson for a cover lesson with a non-specialist, or to use as a starting point for a keyboard based scheme of work.
Please note: This resource includes both printable materials and audio files (MP3 format).
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Double sided worksheet and teacher slides for a music cover lesson on musical theatre. Suitable for both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.
The lesson includes six short activities: a starter, listening task, composition task (without instruments), a song type question, reading activity and reflection. The lesson has been designed to be delivered without instruments or computers and students may need additional paper for the creative composition task. Prior teaching on the elements of music is recommended.
This is the perfect music lesson for a written music lesson or cover lesson with a non-specialist.
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Double sided worksheet and teacher slides for a music cover lesson on the instruments of the orchestra.
The lesson includes four activities: a reading task, an identification task, a timbre task and a creative task. The lesson has been designed to be delivered without practical instruments and students may require additional paper. Prior teaching on the topic is recommended.
This is the perfect music lesson for a written music lesson or cover lesson with a non-specialist.
Want to complete the set? Buy the ‘Orchestral Music’ bundle of four lessons here: /teaching-resource/music-cover-work-orchestral-music-bundle-13187532
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