GAMEBOARD WITH DIGITAL SUPPLEMENTAL

GAMEBOARD is a set of eight bulletin board components designed as companion pieces to GAMEPLAN.

The digital supplement was created with the SMART Notebook software and has been accredited with SMART's Premium Content Status. Note: Not all visuals are intended for digital use. The barred instrument signs are NOT included in this digital supplement.

GAMEBOARD is sold as a complete set of eight components, a total of 132 pieces. 

• Xylophone Visual with 16 removable letters 
  • The 35" X 20" visual may visualize pentatonic keys, isolate groups of pitches, or display scales or scale patterns. The teacher may demonstrate melodic or harmonic patterns, left or right hand sticking, and directionality.
    
    
• Body Percussion Staff with 4 removable pieces
  • The 35" X 20" body percussion staff may be used to create pulse ostinati to accompany poems, songs, or recorded music. The four levels of sound may be transferred to unpitched or pitched instruments, and the visual reinforces tracking left to right.
    
    
• Solfege Ladder with 11 removable pieces
  • The 7" X 35" solfege ladder is a tool for visualizing high and low, conducting melodic patterns, and creating scales. The reversible pieces allow the teacher to display any configuration isolating specific pitches.
    
    
• Twenty-four barred instrument signs
  • The 12" X 5" signs identify each instrument. Those included represent a balanced instrumentarium as follows:

Contra Bass Bars (1) 
Bass Xylophone (3) 
Bass Metallophone (1) 
Alto Xylophone (4) 
Alto Metallophone (2) 
Soprano Xylophone (3) 
Soprano Metallophone (2)
Alto Glockenspiel (4) 
Soprano Glockenspiel (4) 

• Twelve Recorder Fingering Charts 
  • The 7" X 17" charts reflect the Baroque fingering system and include the pitches C-E’ with F# and Bb
    
    
• Eight Hand Signal Cards
  • The 7" X 7" cards represent the musical scale from Do to Do’ and provide a visual representation for students. 
    
    
• Thirty-Two Unpitched Percussion Cards
  • The 7" X 7" cards show the icon and name of the instrument and are categorized by family:wood (green), metal (blue), and skin (orange).

WOOD	METAL	SKIN
cabasa castanets claves guiro log drum maracas piccolo blocks rain stick ratchet temple blocks vibraslap whip wood block	agogo bells bell tree cowbell flex-a-tone finger cymbals gong jingle bells sleigh bells suspended cymbal tambourine triangle wind chimes	bass drum bongo drums conga drum djembe hand drum snare drum timpani

• Seventeen Music Symbol Cards
  • The 7" X 7" cards show the icon or abbreviation of common music symbols that help students learn about dynamics, expression, and score reading. Included are:

    1st and 2nd endings
    accent
    accelerando
    crescendo
    da capo
    double bar
    fermata
    fine
    forte
    fortissimo
    piano
    pianissimo
    repeat
    sign
    ritardando
    treble clef