NMEA Lesson Plan

Teacher’s Name - Sheryl Parde

School - Campbell Elementary - Lincoln Public Schools

Elementary General Music - 5th grade

National Standards 1, 2, 3, 5, 9

Objectives:

1. Students will review “Jan Ken Pon” (Japanese version of rock paper scissors game) which prepares dotted eighth/sixteenth note value.

2. Students will practice mallet technique and layering different melodies on Orff instruments with “Xylophone Madness”.

3. Students will sing “America, the Beautiful” while looking at a storybook of this song, practicing accurate singing in their head voice.

4. Two students at a time improvise in G pentatonic w/question/answer technique for B section of “Chick a Li Lee Lo”.

II: Question E _ _ _ B (4 beats long)

Answer B _ _ _ E (4 beats long) :II

5. Students choose and are assessed as they play a solo from four possible rhythm patterns with “Conga Beat”.

6. Students listen and then sight read for first time “Peace” song from Music Express magazine - December 2003 issue.

Materials used:

1. Orff instruments

2. Storybook

3. Posters for songs/rhythms and Music Express Magazine 2003 December issue

Student prior knowledge and experiences before this plan:

1. “Jan Ken Pon” - students know song and game

2. “Xylophone Madness” - students learned BX and glockenspiel melodies

3. “Chick Li Lee Lo” - students learned this song

4. “Conga Beat” - students learned song, dance and practiced rhythm patterns

Procedures:

1. Sing “Jan Ken Pon” and play game for fun.

2. Play Orff Instrument parts with “Xylophone Madness”. Review known AX, BX, Glock part. New melody to layer in will be the AM.

3. Sing “America, the Beautiful” with head voice looking at storybook of song.

4. Sing “Chick - a - Li - lee - Lo” as A section while two AX instruments improvise in G pentatonic for B section. Students create movement in A section with scarf

s as soon as they are finished improvising.

5. Students sing, dance “Conga Beat” and echo rhythms played as a solo by one student. Assess the student playing solo rhythm patterns.

6. Sing “Peace” song from the Music Express magazine - December 2003 issue.

Indicators of success:

- Does “Xylophone Madness” stay together when different melodies are layered together? (Underlying beat will be the key factor)

- How do students grasp the improvisation concept during “Chick - a - Li - Lee - Lo”? (Do they know which note to begin/end on and only improvise for four beats?)

- Level of accurate rhythm playing on conga drum during assessment in “Conga Beat”.

Interdisciplinary extensions:

Geography and Culture - Japan, Latin America

American History - Early American Culture with prearranged marriages (“Chick -a Li - Lee - Lo”)