The lesson plan I have from my ELL
class last semester is a lesson on the various instruments in a school band and
introducing them, what they sound like and their function to a general music
class who has probably never been taught this before. The overall goal is to increase student understanding of
school band instruments, their traits/sounds and their functions in the
ensemble. This is a lesson plan
that would take much longer than one class period due to the amount of
instruments that need to be taught.
In my matrix, you can see that I
have separated the teaching strategies that I would use to teach this lesson
and aligned them with which standards they satisfy and which technologies would
be required in order to successfully complete each lesson/activity with the
students.
The first line satisfies the standard
of recognizing musical elements and using appropriate vocabulary to do so. Having students watch teacher
demonstrations and professional demonstrations will require them to use musical
vocabulary to properly describe what is going on. Without the musical vocabulary, it will be difficult to make
an educated analysis of the performances.
The students would need to use the Internet, preferably YouTube, to find
professional performances on each of the instruments. Using a sound system and projector would allow me to share
their findings with the rest of the class. This, in turn, satisfies the National Educational Technology
Standard of Students applying digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use
information because they are using the Internet in order to find videos and
evaluate different musical elements about the video. They are also using the information to teach others in the
class about what they find.
The
second line satisfies the standard of arranging simple pieces for voice or
instrument. In this case, we are
writing for instruments because that is what our lesson is about. The students will be composing their
own pieces using their knowledge about the band instruments and what functions
they provide in the band. Because
the students I will have in this class will most likely not be able to play an
instrument, we will need to find another way for them to produce sounds made by
band instruments. The computer
program Garage Band has numerous patches that allow students to compose and
produce a piece using band instruments through the computer, rather than
playing the instruments themselves.
This program is easy to learn how to use and can be manipulated in many
ways to create very different pieces of music by each student. Hopefully a computer lab would be
available so that each student could use a computer to produce their
composition for band. Each student
would need a computer with Garage Band on it, headphones (so as not to disturb
their peers), the internet (to expand possibilities of patches), and MIDI
keyboards (to play their own creations rather than just patches). This activity satisfies the National
Educational Technology Standard of demonstrating creative thinking,
constructing knowledge, and developing innovative products using technology
because students are using technology to create their own composition
(innovative product) and using their creative thinking to incorporate the
instruments they’ve learned about in their own interesting ways.
The
third line satisfies the content standard of categorizing families of
instruments and identifying their associated musical properties. This is the primary content standard
that the lesson addresses. Along
with a lecture from the teacher about each instrument and their function, I though
games for the students to play and demonstrate their knowledge in would be fun
and keep them actively involved in the learning process. The games involve listening to clips
and identifying the instruments and then sorting them into whichever family of
instruments they belong to. A
sound system and media player would be necessary for the first part of the game
of identifying the instruments by sound/timbre. I felt a Smartboard would be an appropriate way of dragging
and dropping instruments into categories for the kids. They can use the technology to actually
see the differences in the families of instruments. The Powerpoint presentation would be used by the teacher
during lectures as a means of illustrating the lecture. This line satisfies the National
Educational Technological Standard of using digital media and environments to
communicate and work collaboratively.
The students will be working together using these technologies to work
together and help each other learn about the instruments and their differences.
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