Teacher: Johnathan Johnson

Subject/Grade: 3rd Grade Medina Middle

Lesson Title: Rhythm Stick Activity

Standards:
1. Singing alone, and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
1.1 Singing melodies, expressively, with accurate rhythm and pitch
(Chanting with inflection on rhythmic patterns)
2. Playing on instruments alone, and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2.1 play rhythmic patterns on non-pitched instruments
5. Reading and Notating
5.1 Identify and explain symbols represented in rhythm and melody.
5.2 Use symbols to read, notate, and perform.
6. Listening and Analyzing
6.2 Classify given instruments into their orchestral instrument families, visually
aurally.

Prior Knowledge:
Students have knowledge over all instrument families and have heard and seen whole,
quarter, and half notes. Symbols in todays lesson are completely new to students as well as
playing on instruments.

Objectives:
The students will keep a steady beat as a group
The students will remain on task and demonstrate ability to listen and repeat rhythms at an
acceptable level of accuracy
The students will follow guidelines for playing implements and be mindful of their own
personal space.
The students will demonstrate their ability to relate symbols to sound

Assessment:
Assessment will be based informally on the ability to keep a steady beat as a group
and repeat, at an acceptable level of accuracy, rhythms demonstrated by the instructor.
Various questions will be asked to students in a group and individual basis to assess
growth and gauge the road-map for the rest of the lesson and subsequent lessons.

Motivating Students/Anticipatory SET

Students will enter the class room and sit in appropriate seats. We will then begin a
review over what we learned the last 3 times we have met. Students will have the chance to
answer questions about the instrument families. This will segue way into our activity with
percussion instruments

Instructional Procedures:

Bring in students from 3rd grade hallway

Have them first sit in the rows and review what we did last class previously
First go over rhythm sticks and how to use them and why they are percussion instruments
Go over etiquette with rhythm sticks

The students will then keep a steady beat by patting or claping to a back beat on a sound system
Pass out two sticks to each student
Play in a call and response format different rhythms and have the students echo
(Do this a few times on various rhythms)
Pass out rhythm sticks
Play in a call and response format with rhythm sticks (this time introducing the notation and
rhythms that will be used on the disc via symbolic stick notation)
Introduce the Chorus:
Come play the Stick Game- Use your ear,
Then repeat just what you hear,
Listen, listen all of you,
Listen first, then do it too.
After we review the chorus I will ask the students to sing along when they hear singing and
when you start singing that they are to sing too
I will introduce the form of the activity
Then tell students they are about to play with a recording and they will do the same thing they
just did but it is going to sound a little different. (African Drums and a different speed)
I will then pass out different percussion instruments to half of the class while the other half
continues to play on rhythm sticks
The students will keep a steady beat to the drum set track and then I will lead them through a
few call and response sequences
The students will then place sticks under chair and swap instruments and repeat the same cycle.
If time allows students will begin to review movements for the Circle game and we will pick up
where we left off next class.

Materials and Resources:

Computer and Speaker system
Rhythm sticks
Percussion instruments
Bluetooth speaker
Phone with Drum loop app
projector and smartboard

Questioning/Thinking/Problem Solving
(embedded throughout)
Review over content knowledge prior to the beginning of the activity
Students will construct their own rules for etiquette and behavior as a class in regards to use
of instruments
I will ask students, when demonstrated by myself, how what I play aligns with the notation on
the board.

Grouping:
Students are grouped as they are in their normal class period. Most of the time alternating

between boys and girls or in a fashion which has proven to be the least disruptive in a
classroom setting.

Accommodations/Adaptations:
Students with disabilities, depending on the severity, will be expected to participate but only
on the level of which they are comfortable and capable.

Closure: We will end the lesson by playing quiet mouse still mouse while I collect all the
implements then I will walk the class back down to their hallway