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ELEMENTARY LESSON PLAN

 

Submitted by Carol V. Crocker Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools

 

Lesson Title:
Football Rhythms

Grade Level or Course:
5th Grade

Time Allotment:
One or possibly two 45 minute lessons

Targeted Goals and Objectives from the 2000 North Carolina Arts Education Standard Course
of Study and Grade Level Competencies, K-12:

  • 4.01 Create and arrange music to accompany readings or dramatizations.
  • 4.05 Show respect for the composing and arranging efforts of others.
  • 5.01 Read whole, half, dotted half, quarter, and eighth note and quarter rest durations in 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 meters.
  • 5.05 Use standard symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in simple patterns.
  • 5.06 Show respect for the reading and notating efforts of others.
  • 6.01 Identify simple music forms when presented aurally including AB, ABA, AABA, Call and Response, and Introduction/Coda.
  • 6.03 Use appropriate terminology in explaining music, music notation, music instruments and voices, and music performances.
  • 7.01 Devise criteria for evaluating performances and compositions of self and others.
  • 7.02 Explain personal reactions to specific musical compositions and styles using appropriate terminology.
  • 7.03 Show respect for the musical efforts and opinions of others.
  • 9.03 Identify various uses of music and describe characteristics that make certain music suitable for each use.

Targeted Goals and Objectives from the North Carolina Standard Course of Study and Grade
Level Competencies, K-12 for other content areas:

  • Math - fractions
  • English Language Arts - vocabulary

Lesson Objective(s):

As a part of their learning to read varied rhythm patterns, students will create and write their own short football "chants" or "cheers". They will perform their creations with the class. Students will use a rubric for composition, performance, and group evaluation. Their creations will be notated using traditional methods of rhythmic notation on a prepared worksheet. Their creations will be performed with the class in a created B section for a song. The finished product can be placed in student?s portfolio.

Materials/Equipment Needed:

Worksheet with notated one beat rhythm patterns using quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes, and football vocabulary. Song sheet with the words for song "Mr. Touchdown" from Silver Burdett "Making Music" ? 6th grade. Piano, or Keyboard to play the song.

 

Lesson Procedure

  1. Teach the song "Mr. Touchdown" from word sheet. Talk about experiences students have had when they attended a football game. Discuss the types of cheers and chants often heard from the fans and the type of music played by the band in the stands. (Pep band styles)
  2. Inform students that they will be composers and create their own football "chants" or "cheers". They will incorporate what they have learned about various rhythm patterns to create their "chants" or "cheers" to create a B section for their song. Inform students of and show students the rubric that will be used for assessment of their creations.
  3. Provide students with the worksheet with various combinations of notes to form one beat rhythm patterns and various football words, and assign partners. Working with partners or a small group (2-4), students should put football words with the matching rhythm patterns. Provide an example four beat chant using football words and appropriate rhythms written above the chant. Then have groups create and notate two of their own four beat chants or cheers. Remind them to use the rubric as a guideline for their chant.
  4. Perform the song "Mr. Touchdown" with students groups adding their chants to make a B section for the class.
  5. Use criteria from the rubric for discussion about the chant compositions.
  6. Have students discuss what they have learned and file their compositions and rubrics in individual portfolios.

Assessment: (see Assessment Item that aligns with this Lesson Plan)

Assessment of group or individual work: Students will self and group assess using a rubric designed by the teacher.

Assessment of individuals:

The teacher will assess each student using a rubric that incorporates the guidelines for their compositions and performances.

Special Considerations:

This lesson should be completed after students have been introduced to sixteenth note rhythm patterns. This lesson may take more than one class time depending on the abilities of the students, class size and how many are in each group. (2 - 4)

 

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