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

Subjects
Emotional
Understand Tap to the beat National Standards “Core” Music Content
different sounds of the Standards Standards
xylophones
Identify a 1. Singing Creating
xylophone from Imagine
other instruments MU: Cr1.1 Ka
in an orchestra MU: Cr1.1.2a
2. Play Instruments Plan and Make

Evaluate & Refine

MU: Cr3.1.1a
3. Improvising
Present

Performing
4. Composing Select

Analyze

Interpret
5. Reading &
Notating Rehearse,
Evaluate, & Refine

Present
6. Listening
Responding
Select

Analyze
7. Evaluating
Interpret

Evaluate
8. Integration
(outside arts) Connecting
Connect #10

Connect #11

9. History/Culture