Ecoff Elementary School Lesson Plan 19’

Jaleel Jackson

4th Grade
April 14, 2019 10:50am

● GOALS
Unit Goals
4.3 The student will play a variety of pitched and nonpitched instruments alone and
with others, including
6. demonstrating proper playing techniques.
4.4 The student will perform rhythmic patterns that include dotted quarter note
followed by an eighth note.
4.6 The student will create music by 1. improvising melodies and rhythms, using a
variety of sound sources;

Lesson/Rehearsal Goals
Students will be able to play and improvise rhythms on a drum

● STRATEGIES
○ Materials Needed
■ Drums

○ Approach
■ Talk about how to play the drums with the students
● Stand above the drum or on your knees near the drum
● Cup your hand and play on either the center or side of the drum
■ Talk about rules
● Do not play out of turn
○ If it’s a mistake you still sit out a turn
● Only play the drum with the palm front of your hand
● Do not lean on the drum
● Do not tilt the drum
● We are not using chairs
● When I say let’s all play our drum
○ Play on drum and hold our hands in the air
■ Pair the students with students next to them
● Get students in a circle
■ Look for quiet groups to get in a circle and get back in the circle
■ Once everyone has a drum practice
● “Let’s all play our drum”
■ Play by themselves for 30 seconds
■ Talk about how low arms is quiet and high is loud
● Everyone gives a drum roll and students react to arms being wide or
closed
● Big hit on a drum when I jump
■ Have students echo a rhythm and then improvise one for the class to echo as well
 ■Poison rhythm game
● I show students the poison rhythm and students echo
● After then students can’t echo that rhythm
● When you play you get out and sit in the middle
● Play until there is a winner
○ Add new rhythms as the poison
● ASSESSMENT
Students will be assessed based on their ability to improvise a rhythm
 Second Grade
April 16/17/18, 2019 9:50am
● GOALS
Unit Goals
2.10 The student will analyze music by
1. identifying selected orchestral and folk instruments visually and aurally;

Lesson/Rehearsal Goals
Students will be able to name and identify instruments and their families.

● STRATEGIES
● Materials Needed
○ Flipchart

● Approach
○ Point out kids shoes and talk about shoes
■ Have kids take off their shoes and
■ Pat the steady beat on the ground in front of them
● Forward
● Side
● Half
● Other half
● One shoe
● Other shoe
○ Start flipchart about instruments
■ Review the instruments
■ Go to slide about woodwind family
● Clarinet
● Sax
● Flute
● Piccolo
● Oboe
■ Brass Family
● Trumpet
● Trombone
● Tuba
● French Horn
■ Percussion Family
● Snare Drum
● Bass Drum
● Timpani
● Xylophone
○ Slide with instrument in shoe game
■ “I have an instrument in my shoe”
■ “I have an instrument how about you”
○ Instrument game
■ 4 slides with instruments behind a shoe
■ Kids drag the instrument from behind the shoe and guess the name of the
 instrument
■ After then the kids pass it to another kid

ASSESSMENT
Students will be assessed based on their ability to correctly identify instruments when
playing the game.
 4th Grade
April 16/17/18, 2019 10:50am

● GOALS
Unit Goals
4.3 The student will play a variety of pitched and nonpitched instruments alone and
with others, including
5. accompanying songs and chants with I, IV, and V(V7 ) chords; and
6. demonstrating proper playing techniques.

Lesson/Rehearsal Goals
Students will be able to sing a melody and accompany themselves on guitar

● STRATEGIES
○ Materials Needed
■ Song Flipchart
■ Approach
● Pair students up and ask them to choose who is an A or B
● A’s line up to get guitar
○ Show how to carry the case
○ Lay it on the ground in front of partner
○ Do not open
● B’s open instruments
● Discuss the parts of the guitar
● A grab guitar and put in rest position
○ Holding the neck upward in lap
○ Practice strumming
● Pass guitar over to B
○ Rest position
○ Practice Strumming
● Put guitar down
● Teach song and chords
○ Achy Breaky Heart
○ C and G chords
○ Strum on highlighted notes
● A pick up guitar and try with B assist
● Pass Guitar
● B play with A assisting
● ASSESSMENT
Students will be assessed based on their ability to play the instrument and sing the song
 5th Grade
April 16/17, 2019 11:20am

● GOALS
Unit Goals
5.3 The student will play a variety of pitched and nonpitched instruments alone and
with others, including
1. playing music of increasing difficulty in a variety of ensembles;

Lesson/Rehearsal Goals
Students will be able to sing a melody and accompany themselves on guitar

● STRATEGIES
● Materials Needed
○ Song Flipchart
● Approach
○ Pair students up and ask them to choose who is an A or B
○ A’s line up to get guitar
■ Show how to carry the case
■ Lay it on the ground in front of partner
■ Do not open
○ B’s open instruments
○ Discuss the parts of the guitar
○ A grab guitar and put in rest position
■ Holding the neck upward in lap
■ Practice strumming
○ Pass guitar over to B
■ Rest position
■ Practice Strumming
○ Put guitar down
○ Teach song and chords
■ Three Little Birds
■ C and G chords
■ Strum 8 times per chord
○ A pick up guitar and try with B assist
○ Pass Guitar
○ B play with A assisting
● ASSESSMENT
Students will be assessed based on their ability to play the instrument and sing the song
 Kindergarten
April 16/17/18, 2019 1:30pm

● GOALS
Unit Goals
K.4 The student will play a variety of pitched and nonpitched instruments alone and
with others, including
1. demonstrating high and low;
K.6 The student will demonstrate a steady beat, using body percussion, instruments,
and voice

Lesson/Rehearsal Goals
Students will be able to demonstrate a steady beat and highs and lows through movement
and instruments.

● STRATEGIES
● Materials Needed
○ Farm flipchart

● Approach
○ Chicken Dance
■ Ask students if anyone knows the chicken dance
■ Teach the dance to students
■ Do it faster
■ Play music and do the dance
○ Mary Had a Little Lamb
■ Get students in a circle
■ Play the melody on the piano/guitar/instrument
■ Students guess the song
■ Students pat the steady beat on their laps
■ Have students tiptoe around the room to the beat Mary Had a Little Lamb
○ Hickory Dickory Dock
■ Bring students to the front of the room
■ Recite song
■ Add space after each line
● Hickory Dickory Dock
○ Clap
● The mouse went up the clock
○ “Woo” low to high
● The clock struck one the mouse went down
○ “Woah” high to low
● Hickory Dickory Dock
○ Clap
■ Add xylophones
● Talk about rules of xylophones
○ Play out of turn you get it taken away
○ Don’t hit too hard
 ○ You could break the mallet or the instrument
○ Don’t throw or sword fight
● Row by row students get instruments
■ Play
● Hickory Dickory Dock
○ Click tongue
● The mouse went up the clock
○ Scrape low to high
● The clock struck one the mouse went down
○ Scrape high to low
● Hickory Dickory Dock
○ Click tongue

● ASSESSMENT
Students will be assessed based on their ability maintain a steady beat and play low to
high on instruments.