Provide a metaview, lifting students into a wider view of the concept. Use another medium (not reading or writing) to connect students' personal knowing to the concept (i.e. visual arts, music, movement, metaphor, etc.) Involve learners in reflective production that blends the emotional and the cognitive.

Each group will be asked to choose or compose a short song that best represents their family name.

Objective: Students will receive a preview of the concept and apply their current understanding of instrument families by choosing or composing a song to represent each family.

Activity: Students count off in fours and divide themselves into four groups. Each group will represent a family. Each family will be given a last name: the String, Brass, Percussion and Woodwind family. Each family will be asked to choose or compose a short song that best represents their family name. Students may be as creative as possible in their song selection/composition and are free to use classroom instruments and recordings. Students share their song with the class.

Assessment: Successful completion of aforementioned task: song selection/composition that somehow connects to the instrumental family assigned.