Overview 

Have students improvise like noises from book with equipment in room with musical intent.

Squeak, Rumble, WHOMP! WHOMP! WHOMP! By Paul Rogers

SOL achieved:
1.13 The student will analyze music by identifying and classifying the timbres of pitched and unpitched instruments by
sounds;

1.15 The student will demonstrate manners and teamwork that contribute to success in the music classroom.

1.9

1. improvising to enhance stories, songs, and poems; and

2. composing simple rhythmic patterns, using traditional or nontraditional notation.

Rationale 

● To engage students in an improvisatory experience that is guided by the book.

I Can Statements (learning goals) 

● I can engage the students to interact with 3 other classmates in this experience.
● I can have the students improvise on at least 5 different sounds in the room with classmates.
● I can have everybody get up and move at least 2 times in the lesson.

Materials 

● Book
● Imagination

Detailed Process 

Time Required
3 minutes 1) Read Book
30 seconds 2) Explain activity to students
5 minutes 3) Read Book again with students performing the activity in between
30 seconds 4) Reflect on experience and sounds

Assessments 
I will assess them within the last page of the book where all the sounds combine and I will have students go
to a sound that another student made and try and recreate it with their musical ability.

Extensions: 

Adaptations 

Size
Students choose their instruments in the room so they have the ability to choose a size
that best fits them

Color Students choose their instruments in the room so they have the ability to choose a color
that best fits them

Pacing Students will be in pairs allowing students with pacing help needed have peers around to
help them think and grow

Modality

Include any visual aids or manipulatives here.