Kindergarten
Exploring Long and Short Rhythmic Patterns
Students create movements to represent long and short rhythmic patterns and compose patterns using non-traditional notation.
Grade: Kindergarten
Concept: Rhythm & Meter
Artistic Process: Performing, Creating, Responding
Exploring Steady Beat with Percussion Instruments
Students explore steady beat and instruments of the percussion family.
Grade: Kindergarten
Concept: Rhythm & Meter, Instrumental
Artistic Process: Performing, Creating, Responding
Call and Response Songs
Students explore call and response songs through singing.
Grade: Kindergarten
Concept: Form, Singing
Artistic Process: Performing, Responding
Musical Patterns
Students identify musical form through movement.
Grade: Kindergarten
Concept: Form
Artistic Process: Performing, Responding
Musical Expression Through Movement
Students demonstrate expressive qualities of music through movement.
Grade: Kindergarten
Concept: Tempo, Dynamics, Articulation
Artistic Process: Performing, Creating, Responding
Telling a Story with Music
Students use pitch to explore the characters in a story.
Grade: Kindergarten
Concept: Form, Pitch
Artistic Process: Performing, Responding, Connecting
Moving Melodies
Students sing and identify melodic contours.
Grade: Kindergarten
Concept: Pitch
Artistic Process: Performing, Responding
Performing and Arranging Using Our Voices
Students explore whispering, speaking, singing, and calling voices.
Grade: Kindergarten
Concept: Singing
Artistic Process: Performing, Creating, Responding
Exploring the Sounds Around Us
Students listen to and describe sounds.
Grade: Kindergarten
Concept: Form, Dynamics, Articulation
Artistic Process: Responding, Connecting
1st Grade
Performing and Composing Four Beat Patterns
Students read, perform, and compose four-beat rhythmic patterns.
Grade: 1st
Concept: Rhythm & Meter
Artistic Process: Performing, Creating, Responding
Seat on the Beat
Students perform and create rhythmic patterns using their bodies.
Grade: 1st
Concept: Rhythm & Meter
Artistic Process: Performing, Creating, Responding
Melodic Phrases
Students explore phrases in poetry and in song.
Grade: 1st
Concept: Form
Artistic Process: Performing, Responding
Dynamics Hide and Seek
Students play an identification game of hot and cold using their voices and dynamics.
Grade: 1st
Concept: Dynamics
Artistic Process: Performing, Responding
Feeling the Tempo
Students demonstrate the expressive quality of tempo through movement.
Grade: 1st
Concept: Tempo
Artistic Process: Performing, Responding
Exploring Expressive Qualities
Students explore expressive qualities in music through listening, singing, and moving.
Grade: 1st
Concept: Tempo, Dynamics, Articulation
Artistic Process: Performing, Responding, Connecting
Melodic Contour
Students create and perform melodic contours.
Grade: 1st
Concept: Pitch, Singing
Artistic Process: Performing, Creating, Responding
Improvising with Our Voices
Students use their singing voices to take turns improvising and creating melodic phrases on a given theme.
Grade: 1st
Concept: Singing
Artistic Process: Performing, Creating, Responding
2nd Grade
Composing in Common Time
Students compose and notate short 4/4, 3/4, and 6/8 rhythms across multiple class periods.
Grade: 2nd
Concept: Rhythm & Meter
Artistic Process: Performing, Creating
Around the Room Mystery
Students identify phrases in a known song and create new patterns of music.
Grade: 2nd
Concept: Tempo, Dynamic, Articulation
Artistic Process: Performing, Creating, Responding
Classroom Thunderstorm
Students create a class composition of a thunderstorm by exploring expressive qualities of crescendo/decrescendo and accelerando/ritardando.
Grade: 2nd
Concept: Tempo, Dynamics, Articulation
Artistic Process: Performing, Creating, Responding
Style and Genre
Students brainstorm strategies to guide their listening as they describe and label music of different genres.
Grade: 2nd
Concept: Tempo, Dynamics, Articulation
Artistic Process: Responding, Connecting
Staff Hopscotch
Students explore relative pitch through listening and movement.
Grade: 2nd
Concept: Pitch
Artistic Process: Responding
Using Our Voices to Improvise
Students create nonsense syllables and improvise on a familiar or created melody.
Grade: 2nd
Concept: Pitch, Singing
Artistic Process: Performing, Creating
