Content Area:

Music
Grade Level:
3rd

edTPA
Lesson Plan Template
Candidate:
Date:
Brandon Burgess
9/29
Central Focus: Artistic skills: Create rhythmic melodies
Knowledge: Note Values
Contextual Understandings: Composer of the week

Pre-instructional Planning: Students understand self-space. Students can keep a steady

beat. Students have partial understanding of rhythm.
Standards: MU:Cr2.1.3b, MU:Pr4.2.1b, MU:Pr5.1.3b, MU:Pr6.1.3a, MU:Pr6.1.3b,
MU:Re7.1.3a, MU:Re7.2.3a, MU:rE9.1.3a, MU:Pr4.2.3c, MU:Pr6.1.3b, MU:Re7.2.3a,
MU:Re9.1.3a
Common Core Standards:
Comprehension and Collaboration
3. Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate
elaboration and detail.
Learning Objectives:
Teacher
Student
Thestudentswillbeabletoidentify
I can identify different note values.
differentnotevalues.
Materials and Resources:
Technology:
Instruments (triangles, tambourines, cymbals
Interwrite Board
and drums)
White Boards and Dry Erase Markers
Printed Materials/Media:
Rhythm Tree on the Interwrite board
America PowerPoint Slide
Leaning Environment Preparation: Students come into the classroom and sit in their
assigned music seat. He or she will sit legs crossed, hands in their lap with no talking, in
order for all students to have the same listening opportunity while the opening piece is
being played.
Internet Resources:
Rhythm Tree
Other:
None

Procedure:
Introduction of Topic
Composer of the week: Vivaldi
Four Seasons
Go over learning goals

Strategies
Share facts about Vivaldi
Students read learning goals out loud

Rhythm Chant

Students stand in self-space.

Echo the teacher, with motions
Rhythm, rhythm, rhythm
Long and short sounds.
This is a whole note (show with hands)
This is a half note (show with hands)
This is a quarter note (show with hands)
This is a pair of eighth notes (show with hands)
Rhythm .... short sounds

Add Instruments

Sit in a circle. Review instrument rules. Chant with

triangle (whole note), cymbals (half note), drum
(quarter note) and tambourine (eighth note).
Pass instruments 4 times all students have a chance
for all instruments.

Show whole, half, quarter and

eighth notes.

Use the Interwrite board to show the notes

Show a rhythm tree and explain how notes fit within
other notes.

Students write out notes of

different values.

Each student receives a white board and marker

As a class, write out a rhythm tree.

Patriotic song of October

America
Goodbye song
Line up

Read words together

Sing with the recording while sitting
Hey goodbye...
My hands are at my side...
Repeat learning goals.

Wrap up
Academic Language:
Learning objectives: Student learning outcomes to be achieved by the end of the lesson
or learning segment. Central focus: A description of the important understandings and
core concepts that you want students to develop within the learning segment. Engaging
students in learning: Using instructional and motivational strategies that promote
students active involvement in learning tasks that increase their knowledge, skills, and
abilities related to specific learning objectives.

Accommodations for Individual Differences: In order for student success, the teacher
will review instrument rules with the students. The students will demonstrate proper
instrument rest position before the activity begins.
Student Assessment: Each student in the class will receive all of the four instruments
through the activity. As an informal assessment, the teacher will visually assess student
understanding through knowledge of the instruments and note values.
Evaluation of the Lesson After Teaching: