LESSON PLAN #5

MARY A. RUANE, KEELING ELEMENTARY

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MUSIC K - 5

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OBJECTIVES:

  1. ACADEMIC: The students will gather information about music (past and present) along the Mississippi River for class presentation.
  1. TECHNOLOGICAL: The students will be able to: 1) use a bookmark to find a website; and 2) print 2 web pages from the Internet.

PRE-REQUISITE TECHNOLOGY SKILLS: 1) turn on computer; 2) get onto Internet; 3) follow directions at the website

MATERIALS: HP pc; Netscape (or other means to use the Internet; URL is http://www.pbs.org/riverofsong/ ; printer for computer; a classroom map of U.S.; Real Player installed; speakers or headphones for each computer

SPECIAL NEEDS:

PROCEDURES:

  1. Prior activities may have included looking at a map of the U.S. and realizing (naming all the states) that the Mississippi River flows through many states of the U.S.; an assumption could be made that there would have been different cultures which developed along the river, and that probably music reflects the difference in the cultures.
  2. Divide class members into small groups (2 or 3 to each computer); groups use bookmark for the URL to get to the site: 1) get onto Netscape; 2) click on bookmark; 3) click on correct bookmark listed ("River of Song").
  3. Assign each group one site along the river (there are 21 sites on the map); click on the correct site.
  4. Students print the web page of their chosen site; keep the page open after printing (click on "print").
  5. Students explore the various musical entries at each site (click on artist’s name; click on "audio/video"; click on "all bandwidths" to hear audio; click on Realvideo to see and hear video clip; click on "back to artist"; click on "next artist" to see and hear next artist; students choose one additional web page to print (within their "topic" along the river).
  6. Students continue to gather information about their "location" along the Mississippi; when all information is gathered, students work in small groups to prepare an oral group report, to be given to the class during the next music period.

ASSESSMENT: The students will present oral reports for the class; the reports will be done in the same small groups in which they worked to gather the information on the Internet.

PLAN B: BE AWARE THAT YOU NEED ONE!