Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and The Orchestra

This guide is written by teachers for teachers: we’ve turned our experience with the Beethoven's 9th Symphony and the Orchestra iPad apps into five lesson plans designed to help teachers use this technology to enhance a wide range of arts and humanities courses. You can use this guide to begin unpacking all of the apps’ amazing features and get the most out of them as educational tools. We’ve successfully used lesson plans like these with 15- to 18-year-old students; they could also be adapted for college-level and adult continuing education courses.  


Each of the five lesson plans suggest several engaging classroom activities and discussion questions to get you started, and we’re confident that you’ll soon see ways to adapt them to fit your own course syllabus and your students’ interests. We also suggest specific content in the apps that you can use to guide student discussion and research.