Final Version of Lesson Plan

Christina Mikucki
MUSC 373
Lesson Plan #1 Final Version
Activity: Children’s Song “Join into the Game”
Grade Level: 2nd

National Standards

• Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
• Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

Concepts

• Musical: Rhythm - Eighth, Quarter, and Half notes
• Nonmusical: Language - learning to say the words and to learn how to divide the words when singing

Skills

• Musical: Singing and Clapping
• Nonmusical: Following directions
  

Objectives
The student will be able to:

• Clap the rhythm.
• Sing the song with the beat.

Materials

• Sheet music

Procedure

• Greet class.
• Sing the song for the students.
• Sing the song with the students and perform the actions (clap hands and stomp feet) with the song.
• Explain the meter of the song.
• Have the students say the rhythm of the song and write the notes on the board.
• Explain to them what the different notes are and how many beats they each get: eighth, quarter, dotted quarter, half, and dotted half notes.
• Have them clap the rhythm the first time through the song.

Closure

• Ask the students which parts had the same rhythm.
• Sing the song one more time incorporating all of their knowledge about the rhythm of the song.

Assessment

• Were the students able to sing along?
• Were the students able to clap and stomp at the right time in the music and with the rhythm?
• Were the students able to identify the eighth, quarter, dotted quarter, half and dotted half notes?