Students will develop active listening, rhythmic and melodic transcription skills, and cross-disciplinary knowledge by studying and transcribing bird calls.
Sharpen your students' listening skills by identifying rhythms and melodic patterns in birdsong.
Introduce your students to the musical sounds that birds make. Build active listening, simple rhythmic response, and creative movement based on bird calls.
In this lesson plan, the students become “Meter Detectives,” listening closely to uncover the secret patterns behind the music.
The detectives in this case (your class) will use body percussion to decode and uncover the missing meters being played.
This is a fun way to review pitches and lyrics. It is a strategy I love to use and that the students find really fun too!
This is one of the most fun lesson plans we do all year. Students will use movement and lip syncing to have their classmates guess what song they are listening to while wearing headphones.
Learning to control the human voice is a foundation for proper vocal technique and reinforces the skill of finding pitch. Through this lesson plan, students will use vocal explorations through different animal sounds.
"A Trio of Charades" encourages students to communicate emotions using music, dance, and gestures by picking an adjective out of a hat. It is a fun skills game.
This is a multi-class project that teaches students to write out rhythms to Valentine’s Day phrases. It can be tailored to students from K-2nd grade.
This lesson plan will let students practice drawing rhythms down on seasonal shapes. These drawings will be pasted to a lit tree that is up on the wall for each class to see.
"Musical Plates" is a fun take on the classic game musical chairs. Each plate has a simple note, or easy rhythm written on it. If they give the correct answer, they get to stay in the game.
"Musical Plates" is a fun take on the classic game musical chairs. Each plate has a simple note, or easy rhythm written on it. I know your students will love this fun music lesson plan!
"Listening Landscape" is an adaptable lesson plan that can be used throughout the year and be tailored to any subject or genre you might be teaching at the time. This lesson plan can take anywhere from 15-25 minutes.
