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- 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.
- Instruments in action
- Students will demonstrate mastery of eight measures of four beats by speaking, moving and playing. They will classify instruments metals, woods, scrapers, ringers, shakers, etc.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Music Education)
- By Jeanne Anderson.
- Love songs
- In BioMusic, page 1.4
- In this lesson, students will investigate how birds use song to communicate. After listening to the story Birdsongs and recordings of bird songs, they will identify “words” in the calls and patterns in the songs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Music Education and Science)
- By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.
- Meter madness
- The students will identify 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time signatures. They will also identify the down-beat and begin to understand conducting patterns.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Music Education)
- By Alice Barlowe.
- Music reading railroad
- Students will learn to read quarter notes, rests and repeat signs using a traditional folk song.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Music Education)
- By Melissa Vincent.
- Musical mountain
- Students will learn to hear the differences between low, middle, and high pitches. They will be able to visualize these differences by looking at the low, middle, and high points of a mountain.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Music Education)
- By Margaret Harris.
- Name that tune!
- This is a student/parent assignment. The students will perform selected lines from their band method books, and their parents (or responsible adults) will listen and try to name the tune.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Music Education)
- By Mary Beth Smith.
- Native American music: Two North Carolina tribes
- In this lesson plan, students will listen to songs from two North Carolina tribes. Students will learn about the music through listening, analyzing, singing, moving, and playing instruments.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Music Education and Social Studies)
- By Merritt Raum Flexman.
- Notating a rainy day
- Using manipulatives, students will notate a familiar song.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Music Education)
- By Melissa Vincent.
- Our class band
- In this lesson students will play percussion instruments that have been divided into four groups: Drums, Woods, Metals and Shakers/Scrapers. They will perform a song sung to the tune of 'Old MacDonald had a Farm' and perform the instruments of these groups.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Music Education)
- By Barbara Tilton.
- Poetry through music: "Smooth"
- This lesson draws students into a study of poetry, using Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas' "Smooth" as an entry point.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Andrea Belletti.
- A Ram Sam Sam: A Moroccan tune with a twist
- Students will enjoy singing, playing rhythm instuments, reading notations, and performing a Moroccan tune in two different musical styles on student keyboards.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Music Education)
- By Marie Batten.
- A renaissance of jazz and poetry
- The Harlem Renaissance was the birth of a creative plethora in all fields of art for African Americans. The poetry and jazz composed during or inspired by this era naturally complemented each other. Furthermore, many of the themes from the musical and literary worlds are universal and provide a great lesson on how two different works can have a parallel theme.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 English Language Arts and Music Education)
- By Janet Fore.
- Rhythm beginnings
- This lesson plan introduces the terms beat, steady beat, and tempo for the first day of rhythm work.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Music Education)
- By Meg Anderson.
- Rhythm stars
- This lesson will introduce the main components of rhythm: quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Music Education)
- By Laura Abernethy.
- Rondo with B-A-G
- Students will read letter and rhythmic notation of the song "Hot Cross Buns," compose a phrase using notes B,A,G, and perform the song as the "A" section of a rondo form.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Music Education)
- By Beth Younts.
- The second grade world of Louis Armstrong
- Second grade students will explore the music of Louis Armstrong via booktalks, compact disc recordings, digital video disc recordings, and may pursue internet web-questing through Marco Polo (http://www.marcopolo-education.org) and http://www.redhotjazz.com as a bonus!
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Music Education)
- By Dirk Robertson.
