NAME:

Marty Ort

GRADE/CLASS:

4 - 6

DATE:

September 26, 2005

SUBJECT:

Music

TOPIC:

Musical Instruments

(This Lesson Plan Utilized CD 2 In The Portfolio)

OBJECTIVES & PSSA STD. #

PROCEDURES

MATERIALS

EQUIPMENT

EVALUATION

The students will be able to use deductive reasoning and critical thinking to figure out the instrument held on the card.

This lesson can be used as a spring board for MENC music standard number 2, Children will be able to perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.  The teacher will select a student to come up and pick out an instrument card.

2.  The teacher will then explain that the students have 20 questions to guess what the instrument is.

3.  The teacher will have each student ask a question, going around the room until either 20 questions expire, or the instrument is guessed.

4.  If the instrument is guessed, the student who guessed it correctly will place the card on a chart under the correct instrument family.

5.  The teacher will then play an example of the instrument on the card, either solo or out of various orchestral repertoire.  The students will identify the instrument from the card when it appears in the song.

6.  Once three instruments have been completed, the students will have the opportunity to be the teacher.

1.  Index Cards with Instrument names written on them.

2.  CD Number 2

Do the students figure out the instruments?

Are all of the students’ questions logical?

Can the students pick out the solo instrument when it presents itself in the aural examples?

Are the “student teachers” able to answer all of the yes / no questions as asked by the other students, or do they constantly seek the assistance of the teacher?