Learning Links
Sound Tracks / Lyrics / Opera/Musical / Hymns and Chants / Body Percussion / Bard / Orchestra / Dance / Composition / Folk Songs / Symmetry / National Anthems / Synthesizer / Chorus
Demonstrators should be read from top to bottom, but need not be demonstrated sequentially.
Elementary Demonstrators
• Explore and respond to music through singing, instrument playing, moving, listening, reading, writing, and creating.
• Choose, perform, and listen to music for personal enrichment.
• Experience and perform music from diverse cultures.
• Recognize and develop music concepts (melody, harmony, rhythm, form, expression, and style).
• Communicate ideas and emotions through performing and/or creating music using developmentally appropriate performance techniques/practices and music concepts.
Middle School Demonstrators
• Experience music and develop appropriate performance skills through singing and instrument playing.
• Choose, perform, listen to, and analyze music for personal enrichment.
• Compare and contrast music of diverse cultures.
• Recognize and demonstrate music concepts using appropriate terminology.
• Communicate ideas and emotions through performance and/or composition using developmentally appropriate performance techniques/ practices and music concepts.
High School Demonstrators
• Experience music and develop appropriate performance skills through singing and instrument playing.
• Choose, perform, listen to, and analyze music for personal enrichment.
• Analyze the similarities and differences in music among diverse cultures.
• Evaluate the conceptual structure and performance techniques used to communicate ideas and emotions.
• Create and/or communicate ideas and emotions through performance and/or composition using developmentally appropriate performance techniques/practices and music concepts.
Sample Teaching/Assessment Strategies
Collaborative Process: Cooperative Learning / Community-Based Instruction: Field Studies / Continuous Progress Assessment: Performance Events/Exhibitions / Technology/Tools: Computers, Games, Videotaping / Whole Language Approach / Writing Process
These sample strategies offer ideas and are not meant to limit teacher resourcefulness. More strategies are found in the resource section.
Ideas for Incorporating Community Resources:
• Experience community music performances (e.g., churches, radio stations, recording studios, cable, public access, dance groups).
• Invite local musicians (e.g., classical, jazz, folk, rock) and instrument builders to class.
• Participate in local music festival or production.
Core Concept: Music
Sample Elementary Activities
• Compare and contrast music performed from different cultures (e.g., Latin America, Africa, Asia) and North American music forms (e.g., folk country, bluegrass, jazz, pop) and how performing practices are alike and different. OE
• Choose a music selection and create an accompanying visual art work, choreography, or dance. PE, P
• Create and conduct a survey of classmates' personal music preferences and perform a skit representing the top three preferences. PE, P
• Create a musical instrument and demonstrate how the instrument should be played. Use music vocabulary in the presentation. PE, P
• Perform varied music genres in the appropriate music style using developmental appropriate music skills. PE, OE, P
Sample Middle School Activities
• Analyze the music of a historical period and show how it reflected the social, economic, and political conditions of the period. OE
• Use different forms of music in a presentation to communicate the moods and ideas of adolescence. PE, P
• Analyze the use of music for religious and social purposes in various regions of the world. OE, P
• Make a music video of a science, social studies, or math theme being studied. Define life-like music roles used in the production. P
• Perform various music genres in the appropriate music style using developmentally appropriate music skills and playing techniques. PE, OE, P
Sample High School Activities
• Create a media presentation set to music representing the emotions and critical attributes of an event having social, political, cultural, and historical impact. Define life-like music roles used in production. P
• Analyze the background music of movies and television shows and communicate the emotions and feelings involved. OE, P
• Create and perform music for in-school ceremonies. PE, P
• Create and perform humorous musical productions to enhance learning. P
• Perform varied music genres in the appropriate music style using developmentally appropriate music skills and playing techniques. PE, OF, P