Felisha Salas

Listening Lesson Plan

Title: ​Fossils! Grade Level: 1st

Source: ​Michelle McConkey

Materials needed:

Recording of “Fossils” by Saint-Saens

Procedure:

A.S: What is a fossil? Where would you see fossils? Are they hard or are they soft?

1. Ask students what fossils are, where you can find them, and if they are hard or
soft. Allow them to respond and talk about their ideas.

2. Introduce “Fossils” by Sesong and ask them to listen to the song very carefully.

3. As students listen to the song, ask them if they can here the bones playing tones.

4. After the song, review the sounds and help students identify the parts where the
bones are playing the tones and where they are not.

5. Play the recording again and have students tap to the beat of the bones.

6. After the song, ask students what kind of instrument do the bones sound like.
Allow them to answer, then reveal that it is a xylophone.

7. After playing the recording, and revealing the instrument, ask the students
whether one xylophone was being played, or many were being played. Allow students to
answer then replay a portion of the song to reveal that only one xylophone is being
played, but a whole orchestra is also in the song.

8. Now play the recording again, but this time have students display one finger when
they hear the xylophone and display many fingers when they hear the whole orchestra.

9. Now have the students stand up and wobble when they hear the xylophone, and
march in place when they hear the whole orchestra.

10. Now, game time. Choose one student to play the fossil. They will stand in the center
and wobble when they hear the xylophone but freeze and march in the opposite direction
of the circle.
 11. The rest of the students will freeze when the xylophone is playing but march when
the orchestra is playing.

12. When the students are marching to the orchestra, the fossil will be walking in the
opposite direction and choose another student to play the fossil.

13. Repeat the game for a couple rounds.

Closure: Review what fossils are, where they are found and if they are hard or soft. Discuss the
song and what sounds were heard, like the xylophone, and the instruments in the orchestra. Also
review the beat of the song and the movements that were used during each part of the song

Educational Objective: ​ By the end of this lesson, students will have learned how to identify a
xylophone and the sounds of an orchestra.

Social/ Cognitive Physical Musical Non-Musical

Emotional Subjects
Understand Tap to the beat National Standards “Core” Music Content
different sounds of the Standards Standards
xylophones 1. Singing
Identify a Creating
xylophone from 2. Play Imagine
other instruments Instruments MU: Cr1.1 Ka
in an orchestra MU: Cr1.1.2a
3. Improvising
Plan and Make
4. Composing
Evaluate &
5. Reading & Refine
Notating MU: Cr3.1.1a

6. Listening Present

7. Evaluating Performing
Select
8. Integration
(outside arts) Analyze

9. History/Culture Interpret

Rehearse,
Evaluate, &
Refine

Present

Responding
Select

Analyze

Interpret

Evaluate

Connecting
Connect #10

Connect #11