I have seven centers: listening, games, recorder, creativity, reading, computer, and keyboard. Each center has a set of instructions and a question page to fill out . The kids are required to finish 2 centers a quarter (they get two rounds at computer because it's the most time consuming). Each center also has three folders:one for the master copies of the questions, one for completed papers, and one for papers that are incomplete. Each day we do centers, I tell the students which center they are assigned. If a center wasn't finished the previous session, they are allowed to go back. After that, if they still aren't finished, they must go on to a different one to keep the rotation even, and will eventually return to the center they have not completed.
In the listening center, I have a series of composer CD's that contains both dialogue about the composer and works examples. For the games center, the students play as far as they can until time is up, then answer the questions. I accept the winner as the person who makes it the farthest if they can't finish. In recorders, the students are to look up the fingerings for 3 notes they don't know, and teach themselves a song containing those notes. In creativity, the students use mallet instruments to create a song based on their phone numbers. In reading, the students read 20 pages or one chapter of a book, then answer questions. In computer, the students play Music Ace and answer questions based on the lessons and games. This center also doubles as a keyboard center, because I have a MIDI-compatible keyboard hooked up to it, and MusicAce can be configured for MIDI.
Following are contributions I received from other teachers on their centers (taken from the The Music Education Madness Site:
Teacher One: Some of the stations I used were: autoharp playing (I have big closets, so I set up a playing
