Musical+Terms

Teacher Name: Stacy Hahn Date:

Subject/Grade: 5th grade general music

Focus Concepts/Skills: Musical terms

National Standards (put X before all that apply): x 1. Sing 2. Play 3. Improvise 4. Compose/Arr. 5. Read/Notate 6. Listen 7. Evaluate 8. Related Arts 9. History/Culture x 10. Movement

Learning Objectives: Students will be able to recognize and define certain musical terms.

Sequence of Activities: Rhythm Activity to start off the class and get their attention. Clap out different rhythms and have them repeat them back. Sound out different rhythms on different parts of your body, ie legs, head, etc and have them repeat back exactly. With flash cards containing pictures and words. They will start to learn different musical terms. Say the term; have them repeat it back to you. Then have them perform it if possible. For example, if the term was crescendo then while singing Mary had a little lamb gradually get louder. If the term was Allegro then have them sing Mary had a little lamb at a quickly or lively tempo. Play a game called Bluff working with musical terms
 * Students are divided into two teams. A word would be defined. Those that know the answer stand. Those that don't and wish to "bluff" the answer can stand, too. A student is called on to give the definition. If correct, the number of points given is the number of students standing. If the student doesn’t know the answer then however many students standing is the number of points taken away from that team. The goal is to get the most points.

Assessment:

During the game I can see who knows the answer by who is standing. Also by calling on the child and them getting the answer right.

//Hi Stacy,

Nice lesson! It's good to be thinking about this at the general music level... maybe with the multi-approach method you're suggesting, they'll remember it! The only thing I would say is perhaps add a little more detail to the lesson plan itself. I.e. Which terms will you be teaching, will you group them together, etc. Also, I would expand the assessment a little bit by perhaps adding a written test as well as oral quizzing. Also, you could assess by evaluating applied demonstration of the musical terms. That way, you're hitting different learning styles in the same lesson while reinforcing what you're teaching. Good luck with this!

edited by: Andrew Binkard

Stacy, Great lesson! it's nice to incorporate concepts that don't generally get touched on in general music. My only suggestion would be to help the students experience the terms more by incorporating percussion instruments as well as xylophones or whatever you have in the classroom. This way the students will be able to hear a crescendo being performed with several different timbres. Edited by Jared Bader//