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
Melodic Contour
Students create and perform melodic contours.
Grade: 1st
Concept: Pitch, Singing
Artistic Process: Performing, Creating, Responding
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
Score on the Floor
Students explore absolute pitch through movement and games.
Grade: 3rd
Concept: Pitch
Artistic Process: Creating, Responding
Composing a Melody
Students compose and notate short melodies using their names.
Grade: 4th
Concept: Rhythm & Meter, Pitch
Artistic Process: Performing, Creating
We’ve Got the Blues
By listening to and looking at the qualities of various scales, students learn to identify the differences between the major, minor, and blues scales.
Grade: 5th
Concept: Pitch
Artistic Process: Performing, Creating, Responding
