I. Curricular Framework

Concept:

Melody Movement

Essential Question:

How does melody move?

Bridge:

Animal Melodies

Content:

Outcomes:

II. Standards Aligned

III. Instruction and Assessment

1. Connect: Connecting to the Concept Experientially

Teacher Strategies/Roles
Teacher role: The meaning connector, motivator.
Create an experience connecting the content to students’ lives.
Act as the meaning connector, and work to forge connections between content and the students’ lives.
Overall goals and objectives
Motivate students to learn.
Connecting content to students’ lives.
Integrating experience with the self.

Quadrant 1
Right Mode – Connect
Objective: To motivate student’s interest in melody that moves by steps, leaps, and repeats.
Activity: Take students to place in building that has steps. (Milliken Park-stage steps) (North Side stage steps or steps on south end of building) Select 3 volunteers to move on steps as you play on resonator bells. (Auditory) 1. Same step. 2. Up and down on each step. 3. Up and down by skipping one or more steps.
Evaluation: Students active involvement in activity.

2. Attend: Attending to the Connection

Objective: To enable students to recognize melody that moves by steps, leaps, and repeats.
Activity: Students will discuss how each student moved on steps differently. Students will take turns moving on the steps in three ways. (Kinesthetic).
Evaluation: Teacher evaluation of student discussion.

Assessment, Phase One, Level of Engagement, Fascination:

3. Image: Creating a Mental Picture

Teacher Strategies/Roles
Teacher role: The instructional leader, teacher.
Manage and deliver concepts.
Relating the parts to the whole.
Overall goals and objectives
Present the facts.
Formulating a significant concept.
Foster understanding at the conceptual level.

Right Mode – Image
Objective: To become aware of melody that moves by steps, leaps, and repeats.
Activity: Students will listen to three excerpts from Saint Saens “CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS” “PIANIST” = steps, “KANGAROOS” = leaps, and “HENS AND COCKS” repeats (Music) Students will draw or act out what animal they think he was describing in groups (Visuals & Drama) Students will share examples. Teacher will show video examples. (Visuals)(Standard 6)(Groups).
Evaluation: Student participation in the activity and observation of the students’ examples of melody.

Assessment, Phase Two, Seeing the Big Picture:

4. Inform: Receiving Facts & Knowledge

Objective: To introduce melody that moves by steps, leaps, and repeats.
Activity: 1) Teacher review how melody moves upward and downward from low to high notes. Explain to students that melody can also move by steps, leaps, and repeats. Review singing familiar songs and pointing out where the melody moves in these three ways. (Standard 1) 2) Review music staff. Show students how steps, leaps, and repeats have patterns. Steps = if a note is a space not it must move to the next line note directly above or below it creating this pattern, s,1,s,1 etc or 1,s,1,s etc. Leaps = the note must skip at least one ore more notes above or below it creating 1,(s). 1,(s) etc. or s,(1),s,(1), etc. Repeats = the notes must be on the same line or space creating s,s,s,etc. or 1,1,1, etc. Students will sing and play examples in text on Orff or resonator bells. (Standard 2) Teacher will demonstrate how to use a pentatonic scale to show these examples on these instruments. Teacher will also discuss with students examples of how artists and architects use these patterns through history. (Standard 8 & 9)
Evaluation: Teacher observation of students singing and playing examples of melody that moves by steps, leaps, and repeats. Teacher verbal questioning and checking for understanding of these three ways.

Assessment, Phase Three, Success with Acquiring Knowledge:

5. Practice: Developing Skills

Teacher Strategies/Roles
Teacher role: The coach/facilitator
Help students practice using what has been taught.
Overall goals and objectives
Practicing and personalizing.
Exercising student abilities.
Acting out ideas.

Left Mode – Practice
Objective: To practice what has been learned.
Activity:
1. Divide class into two teams. Play music detective by opening up their books finding examples of steps, leaps, and repeats.
2. Divide into teams and play examples on resonator bells or piano.
3. Use worksheet and have students circle example played on piano or resonator bells.
4. Students will move their bodies to show example played.
Evaluation: Ability of students to accurately move or answer by steps, leaps, or repeats.

Assessment, Phase Four, Success with Acquiring Skills:

6. Extend: Extending Learning to the Outside World

Objective: To create own melody according to instructions.
Activity:
Divide class into groups. Assign task of creating original melody that has examples steps, leaps and repeats.
Evaluation:
Completion and thoroughness of project according to rubric.

7. Refine: Refining the Extension

Teacher Strategies/Roles
Teacher role: The facilitator of creativity.
Overseeing student self-discovery.
Arranging student sharing.
Encouraging diverse use of learning.
Elaborating, critiquing, honoring student diversity.
Overall goals and objectives
Self-Discovery.
Maximizing uniqueness.
Encouraging distinct competence.
Discovering together as a school community.
Applying learning in new ways.
Integrating application and experience.

Left Mode – Refine
Objective: To have groups evaluate examples of steps, leaps, and repeats created by other groups and refine them. (Standard 6&7)
Activity: Groups share examples with another group. They evaluate and refine them. Share with class and answer the essential question.
Evaluation: Students’ ability to evaluate and refine examples of steps, leaps, and repeats.

8. Perform: Creative Manifestation of Material Learned

Objective: To celebrate the students new examples of steps, leaps, and repeats.
Activity: Invite Third Grade class to share examples with as a review for them on steps, leaps, and repeats.
Evaluation: Student’s participation and enthusiasm.

Assessment, Phase Five,Performance, Creative Use of Material Learned: