Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.

Play recordings that were crafted to represent the sound of various natural creatures or phenomenon

Objective: Students will analyze and evaluate another person’s (or other peoples’) depictions of sounds of Nature.

Activity: The teacher will play recordings that were crafted to represent the sound of various natural creatures or phenomenon. The excerpts should be taken from the following pieces:
“Rain” from Winter Into Spring (George Winston)
“De vilda svanama (The Wild Swans)” from Wings in the Night: Swedish Songs (Anne Sofie von Otter)
“River” from Watermark (Enya)
“Salamandrina” from Interim (Einsturzende Neubaruten)
The teacher should also supervise a discussion among the students that analyzes each musical piece for its effectiveness and accuracy in depicting a sound of Nature.

Assessment: Students will listen with a critical ear to pieces that depict Nature, but are from varying genres of music. The students will then have a high-level discussion about the pieces