Lesson Plan Library

Explore lessons created by Keeping Score teachers.

Current participants can login to post a lesson plan | Download Adobe Acrobat Reader

Find Lesson Plans

1 - 12 of 28 Lesson Plans Found

Meet the Families

Posted Aug 13, 2009 by Emry Gensler Hromec Wojcik

Every orchestra is made up of families – four to be exact.  This lesson invites you to meet these wonderfully diverse familes and the members who make up the voice we hear at the symphony.

Share and Discuss > View Lesson Plan (PDF 0MB)
GRADE LEVEL
PK-2 3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Math, Performing Arts-Music
COMMENTS
0
TAGS
Brass, Instruments, Orchestra, Percussion , Reading, Sfskids.com, String , Vocabulary, Woodwind
 
 
 

Which Instrument Are You?

Posted Aug 13, 2009 by Bonnie Redfern

To accomplish goals, members of families must cooperate, just as members of the orchestra must cooperate to create beautiful music. Similarly, students in a classroom have similar constructs; everyone must do their best for themselves as well as for the good of the whole.  This lesson helps students understand that an orchestra, a family and a classroom must work together to accomplish great things.

Share and Discuss > View Lesson Plan (PDF 0MB)
GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music
COMMENTS
0
TAGS
Brass, Dynamics, Instruments, Orchestra, Percussion , Reading, Sfskids.com, String , Tempo, Vocabulary, Woodwind
 
 
 

Dear Mr. Copland and Mr. Ellington

Posted Aug 13, 2009 by Sonja Rivera

After gaining familiarity with the lives and music of Copland and Ellington, students write each a formal letter expressing how culture is reflected in music.  Students create a bio-poem about the composer’s life and music.

Share and Discuss > View Lesson Plan (PDF 0MB)
GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Performing Arts-Other
COMMENTS
0
TAGS
America, Art, Biography, Composer, Copland, History, Jazz, Poetry, Reading, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Mr. Lincoln Through the Eyes of Aaron Copland

Posted Aug 13, 2009 by Jill Humrich

Learning about this nation’s twelfth president is fun when we combine music, writing, and performing to your lessons. Mix together a little Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, with historical facts and opinions, books, videos and even the Gettysburg Address. Your students will astound you as they create a class performance piece using their words, accompanied by Mr. Copland’s composition.

Share and Discuss > View Lesson Plan (PDF 0.1MB)
GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Performing Arts-Other
COMMENTS
0
TAGS
America, Art, Biography, Composer, Copland, History, Reading, War
 
 
 

Music Reflects History

Posted Aug 13, 2009 by Anita Ullner

Music can help us learn about history!  This lesson demonstrates to your students how music of the Baroque period reflects the importance of the institutions of State and Church, and the influence both had on the work of each composer.

Share and Discuss > View Lesson Plan (PDF 0MB)
GRADE LEVEL
6-8
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Social Science
COMMENTS
0
TAGS
Composer, History, Reading, Sfskids.com, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Beethoven's Thoughts

Posted Aug 13, 2009 by Sherry Matic

Students write a descriptive essay explaining their thoughts and feelings while listening to Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, learning how to describe the musical elements that cause them to feel this way, and transpose these feelings into a watercolor art piece.  The students will present their essay and art work orally, and act out their responses during a physical education exercise.

Share and Discuss > View Lesson Plan (PDF 1.4MB)
GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Performing Arts-Other
COMMENTS
0
TAGS
Art, Beethoven, Composer, Reading, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Looking at Music Through the Six Traits Lens

Posted Aug 13, 2009 by Rebecca Cardon

This lesson provides students an opportunity to use classical music to deepen their understanding of the Six Traits of Writing.  Through listening and responding to music, the students make associations and draw conclusions that contribute to their ability to produce strong writing.

Share and Discuss > View Lesson Plan (PDF 0.6MB)
GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts
COMMENTS
0
TAGS
Dynamics, Reading, Rhythm, Story, Tempo
 
 
 

Native American Instruments and Nature

Posted Aug 13, 2009 by Andrea Crisp

Students will understand the relationship with nature reflected in Native American music.  Students will understand that instruments have different voices that reflect these relationships.

Share and Discuss > View Lesson Plan (PDF 0MB)
GRADE LEVEL
9-12
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts
COMMENTS
0
TAGS
America, History, Instruments, Reading
 
 
 

Scheherazade’s New Tale: Strong Introductions

Posted Aug 15, 2009 by Kristin Machamer

Students will use the music of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade to inspire a strong introduction to a story.  By assuming the role of Scheherazade, students will write an introduction and collaborative story about Sinbad the Sailor.  They will then take a comparative look at their own creations and the original story by Rimsky-Korsakov.

Share and Discuss > View Lesson Plan (PDF 0MB)
GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts
COMMENTS
0
TAGS
Reading, Story
 
 
 

Second Graders - Take Five!

Posted Aug 15, 2009 by Heidi Doyle and Joanne Sweet

Students learn that it is possible to use some of the same strategies for understanding music that we use to understand literature.  Students have an opportunity to identify a musical theme when played by in a variety of styles.

Share and Discuss > View Lesson Plan (PDF 0MB)
GRADE LEVEL
PK-2
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts
COMMENTS
0
TAGS
Beethoven, Biography, Reading, Story
 
 
 

Copland: Life Then and Now

Posted Aug 15, 2009 by Bonnie Redfern

Copland, an American maverick, becomes a storyteller as he writes about life in the early years of America.  His Appalachian Spring helps students understand how people, places and things change over time, while his musical sketch reinforces the six traits of writing.

Share and Discuss > View Lesson Plan (PDF 0.3MB)
GRADE LEVEL
PK-2
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Social Science
COMMENTS
0
TAGS
America, Composer, Copland, Dance, History, Reading
 
 
 

Star Spangled Music as a Patriotic Symbol

Posted Aug 16, 2009 by Christina Gammel

Through the use of music, students will make connections with the historical events in Colonial America and Europe during the early 19th century.  Using the music of Sousa and Tchaikovsky, students will understand how music can become a patriotic symbol and help depict historical events.

Share and Discuss > View Lesson Plan (PDF 0MB)
GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Foreign Language, Performing Arts-Music, Social Science
COMMENTS
0
TAGS
America, Biography, Geography, History, Poetry, Reading, Tchaikovsky, War
 
 
 
1 - 12 of 28 Lesson Plans Found

To learn more about the lives and music of Keeping Score composers click the “interactives” tab at the top of this page.