Establish a classroom atmosphere that celebrates the sharing of learning. Have opportunity for students to practice new learnings. Make student learning available to the larger community, i.e. books students write are shared with other classes, students report in school paper, student work is displayed at school, etc.

Celebration Field Trip

Objective: Students will share their new transcriptions and will demonstrate their understanding of color/tone/timbre as it relates to the pipe organ.

Activity: With guest organists invited to perform or students who are capable of playing their new transcriptions on the organ, the class will take a field trip to a pipe organ (that has all the necessary stops) where each transcription can be played. If a piece seems to be relatively unfamiliar to some students, it is possible that the orchestral or choral arrangement of it can be played prior to the students hearing of the corresponding transcription.

Assessment: Do the transcriptions of the students make sense to their peers? Did students achieve success in portraying an orchestral or a choral piece on the pipe organ?