Game-Based Percussion Teaching


​Challenges, Puzzles, & Humor:
Instruments / People / Timelines / Geography / Visual Arts /
‘Drop the Needle’ / Performance Games / Trivial Humor
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​A 49-page collection of ideas, examples, and video links, with potentially effective learning strategies and experiences – calculated diversions, informal activities, or alternative pursuits of humor and absurdity. Goals include student incentivization (with unconventional challenges) and escapism from tedium—entertainment-based departures.
  • Crave an enlightening tactic for getting shackled students off smartphones between classes?
  • Need a little “fill time” for a course-related delay or cancelation?
  • Yearn to enliven a subject with humor or charitably tolerate a few bad jokes?
Content:
  • Identify the Instrument
  • Match Instrument to Literature
  • Identify Artists
  • Match/Identify Composers
  • Arrange the Timeline
  • Which Does Not Belong?
  • Science & Music - Stump the Band
  • Crossword Puzzles
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  • Word Scrambles
  • Word Grouping (NY Times - Connections)
  • Define Terms
  • Identify Famous Art
  • Identify World Instruments
  • Identify Famous Rhythms
  • Name That Tune (‘drop the needle’)
  • ​...and more