Music Education — Grade 5

Women in flight: Using music to study American women pioneers in flight

As North Carolina's 97-98 Christa McAuliffe Teaching Fellow, I designed this plan to musically enhance the 5th grade social studies of American heroes, focusing on women pioneers in flight. It is intended to utilize singing and rhythmic activities to compare and contrast the lives of Amelia Earhart and Christa McAuliffe. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to successfully complete a solo trans-Atlantic flight and tragically disappeared while attempting to fly around the world in 1937. Christa McAuliffe was selected for NASA's Teacher-in-Space program and tragically died in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster. I traditionally use this plan close to the January 28 anniversary of the shuttle disaster.

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Music Education and Social Studies)

By Robin Smathers.

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.

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First rhythmic composition

This ARTSEDGE lesson introduces students to rhythm concepts, including the names and symbols associated with music notation. Students fill in a chart that outlines names and meanings of rhythmic musical symbols. They then clap rhythm sequences and compose... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics and Music Education)

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