Bluegrass Lesson Plans

Below you will find award-winning lesson plans you may use to incorporate bluegrass music into your classroom or home school.  They have been organized by content categories and grade levels in order to easily identify a lesson plan that fits your needs.

If you have new content you would like to submit, be sure to read about
the Lesson Plan Competition offered by Foundation for Bluegrass Music.


Discover Bluegrass DVD
The following lesson plans have been developed to go along with Foundation for Bluegrass Music's educational DVD - Discover Bluegrass: Exploring American Roots Music.

Age level: grades 3-8 
DVD Lesson Plan 3
DVD Lesson Plan 4
DVD Lesson Plan 5
DVD Lesson Plan 6

Music

Kindergarten:
Grade 1:  Steady Beat & Fiddle Tunes
Grade 2:  Steady Beat & Fiddle Tunes
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Science & Mathematics

Kindergarten:
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Grade 3: The Instruments & Sounds of Bluegrass
Grade 4: The Instruments & Sounds of Bluegrass
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Grade 7: Bluegrass Band On The Road
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Language Arts

Kindergarten:
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Grade 3: The Instruments & Sounds of Bluegrass
Grade 4: The Instruments & Sounds of Bluegrass
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Grade 7: Star Quest
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Grade 9: Informative Speech
Grade 10: Informative Speech
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Technology

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Social Studies

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Grade 3: The Instruments & Sounds of Bluegrass
Grade 4: The Instruments & Sounds of Bluegrass
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