STUDIO: Flashcard Fun

Description

What is Flashcard Fun?

Wouldn’t you love to hear “can we play again?” from your students?! Games like ‘Apple Rocket’ and ‘Pharaoh Fred’ make learning effortless, can be customised to suit the individual student, and are perfect for studio leaderboard competitions (printable leaderboards included).

If, like me, your students are all at different levels, it can be tricky to find resources that cater to their individual needs. Flashcard Fun lets you pick the notes for each student. So the games work great for those who have learnt only three notes all the way up to students who have covered the full stave!

When a student draws a question card, teachers have the choice of either setting notes by dragging them up or down the stave, or even drawing on screen (perfect for musical signs). The games are designed to be versatile so use for note naming, playing on their instrument, interval reading – or anything else you wish!

Ideal for music lessons

As a teacher the drag and drop notes are incredible! I love how I can tailor it to the range of notes a beginner knows, or focus on a particular set of notes that are recent and relevant.

• This is a ‘studio’ pack for music teachers and has been designed for use in music lessons.
• The games in this pack work great for both online and in person lessons. Using a platform like zoom, teachers can share their screen with students to play and control all aspects of the game from their end.
• Studio packs give access for one teacher to use with their own students for one year.
• These games can also be found in the Studio Teacher pack.

List of games

There are two types of Flashcard games in this pack: customisable or with notes already added

• Pharaoh Fred: you are in Ancient Egypt and disguise yourself as a mummy! Swim down the river hiding in a barrel and collect the treasure that Pharaoh Fred stole from you. Can you reach the final pyramid without hitting the waves and losing your treasure? Teachers can pick three notes to add to each flashcard in this game (or draw on screen).
• Apple Rocket: watch your apples fly through the air (hopefully!). Pick flashcards to either answer questions, launch the rocket or lose apples and score more than 250 points to win. Teachers can choose any notes in each question by dragging the notes up and down the stave into position.
• Sleepy Robots: Help Sneaky Stan complete his mission and creep past the sleepy robots. Wake up four robots and it’s game over! Teachers or students can draw on the screen in the questions, in any clef.
• Track Racer: this is a leaderboard game. Send your car around the track, picking up points along the way, but don’t land on an empty fuel tank or you lose all your points! There are 8 flashcards in this game and choose any two notes in each card by dragging the notes. The pairs of notes in this game can be useful for interval note reading.
• Flying Fish: you are a flying fish and your mission is to collect sea creatures and avoid the shark or fisherman! Perhaps you could get students to try and beat their own score each week. Choose any three notes in each question (or draw on screen).
• Melody Minor the Miner: can you get your miner out of the mine with more than 50 precious jewels or will Melody Minor blow it up?! Choose any three notes in each question (or draw on screen).
• Hot Chilli: five hot chillis and it’s game over! The notes have already been added to these flashcards and you can choose either treble or bass clef notes (or draw on screen).
• Alien Beam Up: stop the aliens from leaving the planet by naming the notes correctly. Like Hot Chilli, the notes have already been added. Use these flashcards in any way you wish – name the notes, play them or any other fun ways you can think of (or draw on screen).
• Stone Age Bingo: tools are more important than money in the stone age! Play as Fred or Joe the cavemen and see who has the most tools at the end of the game. This is a two player game for teacher versus student (or two students).

Set up a leaderboard competition!

This pack includes a set of free leaderboard templates. Set up a competition in your studio and motivate students to reach the top (see Susan’s leaderboards in action on the Learnatune Facebook page).

Click here to view a short demo of Pharaoh Fred!