LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE

Student Teacher Name:​ Naomi Cohen Date: DAY 1

Lesson Topic and Grade:

PA Academic Standards (Benchmarks/Indicators) or National Standards of Music

addressed

Create Perform Repond Connect

1 Generate and 4 Analyze, interpret and 7 Perceive and analyze 10 Synthesize and
conceptualize Artistic select work for artistic work relate knowledge and
ideas and work presentations personal experience to
make art

2 Organize and develop 5 develop and refine 8 Interpret intent and 11 relate artistic ideas
Artistic ideas and work artistic work for meaning in artistic and works within
presentation work societal, cultural
,historical context to
deepen understanding

3 Refine and Complete 6 Convey meaning 9 Apply criteria to

Artistic work through the evaluate artistic work
presentation of artistic
work

NAFME 2014 STANDARDS

- MU:Pr6.1.3a Perform music with expression and technical accuracy.

- MU:Pr5.1.3b Rehearse to refine technical accuracy, expressive qualities, and
identified performance challenges.

Learning Opportunities/Procedure:
GOOD MORNING/AFTERNOON

STP STUFF
“I can improvise a melody using a rhythm I created.”
“I can play my improvisation on a virtual xylophone.”
- So last time I was here, we learned all about improvising. Does anyone remember
what improvising is? (It’s making up your own melody)
- Last time I was here, we improvised the melody to the rhythm I made. But now, I want
you to improvise using rhythms YOU made!
- I’m going to hand back the papers I collected a few classes ago so that you can see
the dinners you created.
- See how there are 8 boxes on one paper? I want you to perform a total of 8 boxes for
me. You’ll have 3 choices:
- You can do your top line twice, your bottom line twice, or your whole paper once. Like
this:
- Here is what I’d like you to do:
- WHEN I SAY GO, you’ll go find your xylophone on your chromebooks.
- Open your Chromebooks, go to your dashboard, find the big white S for Schoology.
Go to your courses, find music class, and click on Music Lesson Week 4, and click on
the little xylophone to make it big.
- You WILL need your headphones today!
- I’ll pass your papers back now.
- Get to your xylophone and start improvising. I want you to say the words out loud
while you improvise. Like this: turkey salt pepper bread.
- When you’re ready for me to come hear it, raise your hand and I’ll come over and
listen!
- If you get stuck, raise your hand and I’ll come help!

Closing Activity

THE GOODBYE SONG

Specific Differentiation Strategies

Information is presented in multiple ways

Students can volunteer to perform at different times, giving students that need more time to
coordinate the time they need
Students choose which beats they perform, allowing for self-differentiation.

Assessment:

FORMAL ASSESSMENT - TEACHER OBSERVATION

As students perform their improvisations for me, I’m evaluating them using this rubric:

I will record their scores on the class roster.

Reflection: