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- Biodiversity: The many sounds of insects
- In BioMusic, page 1.6
- In this lesson, students will explore the sounds of insects and compare them with bird songs. They will create pan flutes and use them for communication.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- BioMusic
- Two units of biomusicology instruction for grades 2–3 and 4–5. Your students will be fascinated by these lessons that cover the miracles of animal communication, the mechanics of sound, and their connections to the field of music.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- 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.
- How can we view and distinguish sounds?
- In BioMusic, page 2.4
- In this engaging lesson, students will listen to recordings of various animals sounds and compare them with their visual representations on sound spectrograms. They will explore topics such as pitch, frequency, timbre, and vibration through animal vocalization, human voice, and instrumental composition.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Music Education)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How do animals create sound to communicate?
- In BioMusic, page 2.3
- In this interdisciplinary lesson, students will experiment with a variety of objects and musical instruments to show how sound is caused by vibrations. They will learn how humans and birds create sound using the larynx and the syrinx, and identify two animals that use objects in their environments to create specific sounds.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How does an animal's environment affect the frequency of its sound?
- In BioMusic, page 2.6
- In this lesson, students will explore the relationship between frequency and pitch. In addition to conducting a simple experiment, they will also examine bat and elephant sound spectrograms. Students will learn how both animals and humans use their environments to create sound for communication.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How does sound travel in different environments?
- In BioMusic, page 2.7
- In this lesson, students will identify mediums that sounds can travel through and use experiments to discover how each medium affects sound. By listening to recordings and viewing sound spectrograms, they will learn about whale song and how these animals transmit sound through water (liquid).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- How sound is like a wave: Investigating animal echolocation
- In BioMusic, page 2.5
- In this lesson, students will use two models to demonstrate how sound waves occur. They will infer how sound waves travel from a source and weaken as they spread. By demonstrating how sound echoes off objects, students will learn about animal echolocation.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- Shakin' and eggs
- In BioMusic, page 1.2
- In this integrated lesson, students learn about the different kinds of animals that hatch from eggs. As they explore the properties of eggs, they will also develop their understanding of sound by conducting an experiment with “sound eggs” and using musical terminology to describe their findings.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- Sound properties and careers in music
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 3.8
- This lesson for grade six uses a hands-on lab to help students understand key concepts in the properties of sound, and how they can be applied to careers in music.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Music Education and Science)
- By April Galloway and Christine Scott.Edited by Julie McCann.
- Sounds all around
- In BioMusic, page 1.1
- In this integrated music and science lesson, students predict what sounds they would expect to hear in a particular habitat or under certain weather conditions. While listening to various soundscapes in groups, students record describing words in their science notebooks and then use pantomime to describe the origins of sounds. A concluding discussion focuses on natural and man-made sounds.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- Squawking is talking
- In BioMusic, page 1.3
- In this lesson, students compare bird song with human song. After a brief overview of how humans and birds make sound, they will begin to consider how both learn to sing and focus on particular aspects of their songs. To end the lesson, students craft Bird Calling Cups to make their own bird calls.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- What sounds do whales use to communicate?
- In BioMusic, page 2.8
- In this lesson, students will listen to whale sounds. They will identify the difference between a whale song and a whale call. While using appropriate music terminology, students will also compare the similarities between whale song and human song.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–6 Music Education)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- World music
- In BioMusic, page 1.5
- In this lesson, students will understand that birds of the same family can have different songs. While listening to four different thrush songs, they will also learn to read a sound spectrogram and compare it with sheet music.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
