Schedule and General Lesson Plan:

2nd Grade General Music

1. LESSON #10: NAME That’s Whack!

PEDAGOGY THREADS:
Steady Beat, playing loud and soft

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:

● I can recognize and perform rhythmic pattern (quarter notes, eighth notes and quarter rests (VA Standard
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Assessment Strategies:
Throughout this rehearsal I will engage in formal assessment by:

Throughout this rehearsal I will engage in informal assessment by:

Observing students who while they are playing along with the rhythm video

Start Timings Activity or Piece Developmental Hierarchy Differentiations

Time Totals Level/Chunks, Plan and Sequence

Time: 5 minutes Spooky Chunk 1: Listen and Play

4:00 Boomwhackers Chunk 2: Quarters and Eighths

Color-
Chunk 1: Listen and Game
Boomwhackers are
● Tell everyone to grab a boomwhacker and spread out in the room
different colors to
● Play Harvard Thud video https://youtu.be/Q6JIDfRzLMQ differentiate pitch,
● Listen and play how the music makes you feel and when I say steady, everyone rhythms are on the
switches to walking and playing on the steady beat. (say steady during the spooky, board with
scary, skeleton part) different colors

Chunk 2:
● Speak eighth notes with the word “spooky, scary, skeletons send shivers down your Size- Instruction is
spine” and have students repeat rhythms on the screen
○ Ask if anyone would like to speak it and play it by themselves
● Half of the group speaks and plays rhythms and the other half plays the steady beat
Modality-
and then they are switched.
students can stomp
 or speak. Rhythms
have a different
symbols.
Visual: Rhythms
on the board
Aural: Speaking
Kinesthetic:
Stomping

Pacing- Students
have the option to
keep quarter note
beats, or dance to
how they feel the
music
TRANSITION WITH: Reveal board with Rhythms

Time: 5 minutes Rhythm with Chunk 1: Speak and Play Rhythms

4:00 Boomwhackers Chunk 2: Play with video guide

Chunk 1: Charmand Color-

● Halloween game! Boomwhackers are
● Someone gets to hide Charmander and someone gets to find him! different colors to
○ If the person is far away from him, play soft, if someone is close play loud! differentiate pitch,
rhythms drawn
Chunk 2: Play with video guide with different
● Have everyone sit next to people with the same color boomwhacker colored chalk on
● Play along with video! https://youtu.be/u3-KqSrzITk
Size- Instruction is
on the screen

Modality-
students can stomp
or speak. Rhythms
have a different
symbols.
Visual: Video
Aural: Listening to
the song while
playing
Kinesthetic:
Whacking the
Boomwhacker

Pacing- Students
have the option to
keep quarter note
beats, or dance to
how they feel the
music