Lesson 3

(30 minutes) Teacher Overview: Student seating chart must be available. Teacher will prepare a drawing of Solfege St. on the white board. Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La will be included in the drawing. Student iPads will be available with MindMeister available through web access. Teacher must have an iPad available with the web access for MindMeister demonstration. Objectives: Students will take part in a Soto Voce mirroring exercise. Students will be introduced to Solfege St. where Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, and La are included. On iPads, students will develop a MindMeister map that organizes the syllables from low to high. Students will have freedom in how they will design their maps, but the correct relationships must be shown. Some students will be selected to share their maps with the entire class. Content Standards: Sub-Strand 1.1 Read, write, and perform simple rhythmic patterns, using eighth notes, quarter notes, half notes, and rests. Sub-Strand 1.2 Read, write, and perform simple patterns of pitch, using solfege. Sub-Strand 2.2 Sing age-appropriate songs from memory. Common Core Standards (projected): Creating: Plan Develop a plan to present musical ideas and explain how connections are made among selected musical ideas. Creating: Make, Evaluate, Refine Develop and refine musical ideas incorporating peer and teacher feedback guided by teacher and student selected criteria Creating: Present Share their music through performance and notation with peers/informal audience. Responding: Analyze Identify how musical concepts are used in musical selections and enact, write, or explain their analysis. Technology Standards: Creativity and Innovation o Students: a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes

b. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression c. Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues. Communication and Collaboration o Students: a. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media

Resources: MindMeister: http://www.mindmeister.com/ Reflector App: http://www.airsquirrels.com/reflector/ Teacher computer, teacher iPad, projector Student iPads Dry-erase board with markers Instruction: Teacher will direct students to their seats and begin a Soto Voce mirroring exercise. Teacher will describe the relationship between the individual Solfege syllables. The teacher will sing on the pitches So-Mi, So and Mi, are they neighbors? From here, the students will reply, So and Mi, no theyre not. This is meant to show the students that the syllables have an order that is unwavering, but understandable based on their understanding of houses on a street. Then, the teacher will demonstrate a pair of syllables that are neighbors (e.g., So and La, are they neighbors? So and La, yes they are.) Then, after a demonstration, the teacher will demonstrate how the students will use MindMeister in order to construct maps of Solfege St. and the relationships of the syllables. The teacher chooses a few students to share their work with the class. Finally, the teacher sings, Goodbye, boys and girls on the pitches So, Fa, Mi, Re, Do. The students echo, Goodbye, Mr. Pratt on the same pitches. Then the teacher sings the syllables, with the students echoing. Finally, the teacher claps the rhythm and sings Ta-Ta-TiTi-Ta with the class echoing.