Starclass Software description:
Complete lesson plans and resources to help you teach music at elementary and
primary school.
It guides you through 180 exciting, ready-to-use lesson plans which support
MENC and QCA standards. Starclass includes full explanations of musical concepts
for non-specialist teachers, hudreds of music clips and printable pictures,
and an audio CD to play in class.
With your busy schedule, you dont have time to prepare all your lessons from
scratch. Starclass make it easy to find a lesson plan which covers just what
you want to teach, saving you hours of preparation work.
Simply select musical topics conveniently grouped from pitch to texture, or
different kinds of creative classroom activity.
Starclass also helps you choose cross-curricular lessons relating music to
other subjects, such as dance, art and literacy, or which address particular
MENC or QCA guidelines.
All of the lessons are high-quality and fun, involving a wide range of topics
such as planets, the weather and whale-song.
Starclas s stimulates creativity through music. Progressive lessons introduce
composition, movement, body percussion, playing simple instruments, sol-fa and
basic notation. Some lessons are for the whole class, and others are for smaller
groups.
Each lesson plan includes step-by-step instructions, music and sound examples,
printable pictures, and learning outcomes stating what students will achieve.
Sibelius Starclass contains hundreds of audio examples, ranging from abstract
sounds such as metronomes and breaking waves, to instrumental excerpts and music
to perform activities to. These are also provided on an audio CD, so you can
play them in class without a computer.
Starclass includes hundreds of pictures of everything from instruments to dinosaurs,
which you can enlarge and print out for worksheets, flashcards and posters.
All of these resources may be photocopied!
Product highlights
- Saves you hours of preparation
- Supports MENC and QCA guidelines
- Over 180 ready-made lesson plans
- Ideal for specialist and non-specialist teachers
- 99 track audio CD for playback in class
- Hundreds of sound-clips and printable pictures
System Requirements
- Windows Pentium or faster, 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT and XP. 32Mb RAM, 300Mb
Hard Disc space, CD-ROM Drive
- Mac OS 8.6 or later, 32Mb RAM, 300Mb Hard Disc Space, CD-ROM Drive
Sibelius Starclass Software (code 13768)
Music Tuition Software - STCEO1
£81.99 (inc vat)