Brief Description

This lesson helps students practice reading, writing, and performing note and rest duration, while practicing using the Internet to find pre-bookmarked sites, scrolling through the sites, and printing out forms.

Standards and Frameworks

Technology Standards

T-F2 P.O. 3  Acess information sources (e.g., CD-ROMS, encyclopedias, pre-bookmarked internet sites)
1T-F3 P.O. 3 Print documents, text or image

1AM-E1  Expand note reading ability to include sixteenth and dotted notes, and rest in 6/8, 3/8, and alla breve (cut time) meter signatures.
1AM-E1 P.O. 1 Identify meter and note/rest values
1AM-E1P.O.  3 Speak and/or sing and /or play examples of music utilizung the above elements

Academic

• Students will be able to identify, and perform note, and rest symbols from a written page.
• Students will be able to create an original rhythmic piece using note and rest symbols.

• Students will be able to access pre-bookmarked Internet sites, scroll through the site, interact with the activites and print out worksheets.

• Students will need to know how to access the Internet, click on a pre-bookmarked site, and follow directions at the site.

• Computer Lab, pre-bookmarked address site, pre-printed worksheets, classroom instruments, printe out instruction for each center, class litst with pre-assigned groups, pre-printed refection paper.

ESL students will be assigned in the same group with student translators.  Special Education Students will be grouped with student tutors.

Procedures

This lesson will be taught over two forty-minute class times.  My class size is rather large so it is necessary to have duplicate centers.  Students will be assigned to six different groups approximately five students in each group.  There will be two of each center for a total of six centers.  Students will rotate to each center in ten-minute intervals.
COMPUTER CENTER: Students will work together as a team on the computer.  Assign each student a job; keyboard operator, timekeeper, direction reader, and two students writing the answers.
WRITING PRACTICE CENTER: All students will practice writing the music note and rest symbols and fills out a worksheet that compare them to fractions or money.  (depending on the classroom math learning level).  As teacher you will need to communicate with the classroom teacher and find out what objectives students are working on in the math class.
PERFORMANCE CENTER: Students will read note and rest symbols from a written piece of music and perform them on unpitched percussion piece and perform the piece as a group for the class.  The performances will be video taped.  The class will rate the performance using a student-generated rubric.

Worksheets from the computer center and the writing practice center will be turned in for grades.  The last ten minutes of the second class students will fill out a reflection paper asking the questions; “What did you learn in music today?”  “How do you think you can apply the information you learned today to your daily life?”

Teacher Name: Marcie Marshall/Young
Site: Rio Vista
Date Submitted: October 2001