Dr.

McConkey Instrument Lesson Plan

Title​: Adding on Story with Instruments

Source​: Dr. McConkey

Material Needed:​ Add-on story book, glockenspiels, finger cymbals. Vibraslaps,

triangles, jingle bells, cow bells, and tone blocks.

Procedure

A.S​.: What does it mean to add? Can you tell me what it means to add?

1. Teacher is going to read an “add on” story. They explain what it is.

2. Begins by singing the words in the book “There was an old lady who swallowed a

fly”.

3. Have the students repeat the phrase “Perhaps she’ll die” after reading sections of

the book.

4. Introduce the glockenspiel to the students and explain and play the notes that

sound like “Perhaps she’ll die”.

5. Hand out glockenspiels, finger cymbals. Vibraslaps, triangles, jingle bells, cow

bells, and tone blocks.

6. Demonstrate how each instrument is used and have children model it back to the

teacher.

7. Teacher reads the book and children play their instrument to their chosen animal

in the book.

8. Ask students how many instruments were used to represent an animal.

Closure:​ Ask the students to count how many instruments were handed out. They

needed to add all the instruments together to know how many instruments were used.

Educational Objective:​ By the end of this lesson, students will have learned to … play

an instrument.

Social/ Cognitive Physical Musical Non-Musical

Emotional Subjects

Playing an Actively listening Moving their National “Core” Music Content Standards
instrument for animal names hands to play an Standards Standards N/A
and playing the instrument
appropriate 1. ​Singing Creating
instrument. Imagine
2. Play
Instruments Plan and Make

3. ​Improvising
valuate & Refine

Present
4. Composing
Performing
Select

5. Reading & Analyze

Notating
Interpret

6. ​Listening Rehearse,
valuate, & Refine
7. Evaluating
Present
8. Integration
(outside arts)
Responding
Select
History/Culture

Analyze

Interpret

Evaluate

Connecting
Connect #10

Connect #11