Music Lessons

Grade: 6 (60 Minutes) Edits made in Purple

Lesson Date: Lesson One - Tuesday September 7th, 2017

Stage One: Desired Results

Focus: None: To review musical skills and see what the students remember from past
years.

S&S Creating None applicable

C4: Present in small groups, innovative musical performances on a selected issue.

S&S Responding R1: Sing individually and in harmony

R4: Explore the dierent artistic presentations that are/were innovative and their
implications.

Stage Two: Assessment Evidence

Formative During melodic and rhythmic games listen for the students ability to sing in tune,
Assessment keep a steady beat, and echo rhythmic patterns.

Introduce the topic of the unit and see prior knowledge the students have on the
topic through discussion and answering questions.

Summative Not Applicable in this lesson.

Assessment

Stage Three: Learning Experience

Prior to Lesson: Warm up

Gather Materials

Resources to Lesson Plan

bring: Ball (Soft spongy ball or a beach ball)

Time Content and Description Notes

Introduction:
Activity 1

Introduce self to students - tell a little bit about where I am from.

Talk about excitement for the coming school year and creating music

Music as a safe space for creating and exploring - I LOVE hearing loud
mistakes over nothing at all - mistakes are how we learn in life and as
a performer, etc.
Body:
Activity 1

Introduction game:

Have the students sit in a circle and we go around the room and
SAY: Your name, where you are from, your favourite thing from
the holiday, and something about music that they really like.

ex) Emma, Canada, Being Musical director of a theatre camp,

and how music is an outlet for emotional expression.
Time Content and Description Notes

Activity 2 Pre - Assessment

Introduce Unit One

In music we will be talking about music and other art.

ASK: Does anyone have any ideas of how music and other art
forms are connected? What is the relationship between the
various art forms? Listen to responses

SAY: These are all excellent ideas! we will be exploring these

ideas and topics in more depth and looking how we can use
beat and rhythm, dynamics and tempo, instruments, and our
voices to communicate through music.
Activity 3 (Did not do)

Circle activity

Go through in a circle and say one thing you LOVE about music
class and why and say one thing that isn't your favourite in
music and why.

Activity 4

Tue Tue

Introduce song - Traditional African Children's Song from Ghana

The song is about a little girl selling rice cakes at the market
place.

Teach song line by line through rote

Have the students sing the song and patch the beat on their legs.

If there is more time left in the class try and introduce the song as a
cannon - have the students sing one part while I sing the other part.

Activity 4

All the Pretty Little Horses

Talk about the song and how it inspired a piece of literature (art
inspires art) Book by Cormack McCarthy.

Sing song for the students and ask them to think about what it
means.

How would they represent the song with a dierent fine art?
Activity 5

Exploring dierent fine arts with music

With your iPad pick a song that is meaning full to you and find it
represented in a dierent art form

10min to find song and fine art representation.

Share with the class why your picked your song, and share what
kind of fine art is used represented in this piece of music.
Time Content and Description Notes

Activity 5 - Sponge Activity (Did not do)

Game of Many Things

Layering Concentration and Collaboration Activity. Should be

silent no talking, just focus.

Have a ball and you bass the ball around, then you do it again in
the exact same order.

Once you feel comfortable with this you add level 2. You talk to
someone in the class, then do it in the same order. The person
who started the walking level should be dierent then the
person who started the ball.
Closing:
Wrap Up

Thank you so much for such an amazing first class

I am so excited to have this opportunity to learn and grow with

you as budding musicians.

Stage Four: Reflection

What went well? I was very nervous for this class because there are only 3 students in the class,
but I think that overall it went well!

I ended up switching what I was teaching in my lesson because of the group

dynamic and because of how many students there are in the class. I think that
the direction the lesson went was much better then the original plan so I am very
excited about that. It also was a good opportunity to see where the students are
at from an inquiry stand point, and focus my lesson around what we discussed in
class.

What could be All of the edits that I made on the page are what I would do dierently from the
done dierently? original plan.

I also need to find an organic way to get more of a response from Drake,
especially because the other 2 students are so excited and talkative. I need to
make a conscious eort to ensure that Drake is engaged and reactive in the
lesson.