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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Music Education — Grade 4

Goal 5: The learner will read and notate music.

Objective 5.04. Use standard symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in simple musical patterns.

Additional related resources

We’re in the process of aligning our content for students to the Standard Course of Study. As we do, you’ll find it here.

General resources

Aligned lesson plans

How can we represent sounds that are in the environment?
In BioMusic, page 2.2
In this interdisciplinary lesson, students will listen to frog calls and identify the difference between high and low pitches. They will represent sounds using aural, graphic, and kinesthetic methods.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Dance Arts Education and Music Education)
By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.