Identify Instrument Sounds: Percussion

by The Performing Arts Classroom

Price: 300 points or $3 USD

Subjects: performingArts,musicElementarySkills

Grades: 2,3,4

Description: Use these self-checking task cards to help your students practice identifying the sound of percussion instruments. Project on the big screen for a whole class activity or assign to students on their devices. Included are 15 instruments: snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, timpani, chimes, triangle, tambourine, wood block, claves, guiro, congas, bongos, glockenspiel, xylophone, and marimba. Each instrument appears twice, once where the sound is given with three instrument choices and once where the instrument is given with three sound choices. As students complete the activity, you might consider asking questions such as: • What made you choose that answer? • How would you describe the sound of this instrument? • How does this instrument sound different from others?