Students explore call and response songs through singing.
Students compose and notate short melodies using their names.
Students compose and notate short 4/4, 3/4, and 6/8 rhythms across multiple class periods.
Students create and perform melodic contours.
This unit, developed by Northshore School District in Washington, contains four days of lessons with suggested extensions that connect with SEL Standards 1, 2, 4, and 5 and Music Standard 2, 3, 4 and 11. The class will create the verses to the song “Floating in Space”. Students will engage in activities where they analyze emotional characteristics of music, practice emoting without words, review “song form” and rhyming patterns, and review space vocabulary words.
Through a sequence of activities using songs, creative movement, and picture books, students will learn about each others’ similarities and differences, gain an appreciation for cultural diversity, and identify ways that various social and cultural groups bring new ideas to society.