LESSON PLAN

(revised FA14)

Teacher: Tam Yong Wei

Date: 09/08/14(Week 1)
Grade: 2nd Grade, General Music (Theme : Indonesian Gamelan Music)
1. Learning Outcome/Behavioral Objectives:
By the end of this lesson, students should be able to :
a) Point out where Indonesia is on the map
b) Identify which Orff instruments match Indonesian gamelan instruments
c) Sing Clap Your Hands in tune and clap a constant beat
2. Required Prior Knowledge and Skills:
Familiar with various Orff instruments, familiar with quarter notes, eighth notes,
and quarter rests.
Anticipated needs: Students might have forgotten quarter notes, eighth notes,
and quarter rests that they have learnt in Kindergarten or 1st Grade.
3. Standards and Frameworks:
National Standards
Creating: AS1 Imagine AS2 Plan, Make AS3 Evaluate, Refine, Present
Performing: AS4 Select, Analyze, Interpret AS5 Rehearse, Evaluate, Refine
AS6 Present
Responding: AS7 Select, Analyze AS8 Interpret AS9 Evaluate
Connecting: AS10 Synthesize, Relate AS11 Relate for deeper understanding
State Frameworks Singing Reading and notation Playing Instruments
Improvisation and composition Critical response
Purposes and meaning in the arts Role of artists in communities
Concepts of style, stylistic influence and stylistic change
Inventions technologies and the arts Interdisciplinary connections
4. Assessment:
Students will be informally assessed. The teacher will observe throughout the
class whether students can :
a) sing in tune
b) clap the beats in time
c) show active interaction throughout the lesson

5. Materials, Repertoire, Equipment needed:

World map, detailed view of map of Indonesia, projector with slide(s) of gamelan
instruments, 1 bass xylophones, 2 alto xylophones, 2 alto metallophones, 1 bass
drum, video of gambang and the saron(video links available in the lesson
sequence), 25 mini whiteboard, 25 markers, and napkins to act as whiteboard
erasers
6. Accommodations:
a. Special needs : (a blind student in the class)
Rote singing(multiple times if needed), constant eye contact with student(s)
b. ELL : Prepare lyrics to Clap Your Hands in advance for ELL students to read
beforehand
7. Lesson Sequence:
a. Activity: Greeting : Sing Get Up And Sing to get the kids attention. Do a few
Kodaly hand sign (use do, mi, so, and la solfeges) exercises and rhythmic
Exercises (using combination of tas and tis)
Estimated Time: 3 minutes
b. Activity: The class is going to learn about gamelan music. Ask students
whether anyone has been to Indonesia before, who can show where Indonesia is
on the map, where gamelan music came from. It came from the island of Bali in
Indonesia. Show the island on the map. Ask whether anyone has seen gamelan
instruments before.
Estimated Time: 5 minutes
c. Activity: One instrument that is common in gamelan music is the gambang.
Look at the picture of the gambang and try to think of an Orff instrument that
looks like it. It looks like the xylophones which has wooden tiles and the tiles are
arranged
like
the
gambang.
Watch
this
video.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1REQ4cIx138).
Estimated Time: 4 minutes
d. Activity : Another instrument is the saron. Look at the picture of the saron
and try to think of an Orff instrument that looks like it. It looks like the
metallophones which has metal tiles and the tiles are arranged like the saron.
Watch this video. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs0Hq_sFVAs).
Estimated Time: 4 minutes
e. Activity: Teach the song Clap Your Hands? Sing the whole song to the
students first, then teach the song using the rote method (lyrics on last page). Add
in the actions based on the lyrics. Repeat as necessary.
Estimated Time: 5 minutes

f. Activity : Get students to think of other actions that they can add in to replace
the actions in the original song. Sing and play out those actions. Get students to
play the song on the Orff instruments and the rest of the class will sing the song
together with the actions. Give all students a chance to play the instruments. The
students on the bass xylophones will play as ostinato of do and sol. Xylophones
will play the main melody. The bass drum will play the same rhythm as the bass
xylophones.
Estimated time : 15 minutes
g. Activity : Summarizer/Foreshadowing : Recap the lesson by asking where
gamelan music came from. Ask them which Orff instruments go with the
gambang and saron.
Estimated time : 2 minutes
8. Assignments:
Get students to think of what Orff instruments they can use to accompany Clap
Your Hands
9. Contingency plan:
a) If a power outage occurs, be prepared to have a hard copy of the world map,
the Indonesia map, and a picture of the gambang and saron.
b) If students take less time to learn than estimated, give each student a mini
whiteboard, a marker, and a whiteboard eraser. Test their notation skills on
rhythms using a mixture of rhythms such as ta-a(half note), ta(quarter note),
and ti-ti(eighth note). Say aloud a small phrase of rhythms then students will
notate it down on the whiteboard.
10. Evaluation/Diagnosis/Remediation: Lyrics for songs :
1) Get Up And Sing
Get up and sing! Get up and sing!
Move your arms and swing, swing, swing!
Get up and sing! Get up and sing!
Sing and swing with me! (Repeat if necessary to get childrens attention)
2) Clap Your Hands
Clap, clap, clap your hands,
And turn around one time,
Put your hands on your head,
Then put your hands on your hips.