Week 12

Lesson Plan Development

This week is all about how to create a lesson plan. You need to watch the following video: 

This video lecture walks you through how to create your own lesson plan for this course using a fully integrated science lesson as a demonstration. You need to create your own lesson plan based upon what we discuss in this lecture and use my template (which is similar to WVSU's lesson plan template) to write it. Here is the template: 

Teacher: Christen Dillon                                                         Date: 09/06/12

Title of Lesson: Shape Detective                                            Grade: Kindergarten

Objectives/Student Outcomes:

Students will identify the following shapes: circle, triangle, rectangle, square.

Students will demonstrate the use of steady beat, locomotor movement, and rhythmic speech.

WVCSO:

National Music Standard (look in textbook for all 9 of them):

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Management Framework

30 minute lesson: Students will start off in the floor sitting in a circle on the carpet.

·         5 minutes on the floor learning poem.

·         5 minutes on the floor reviewing locomotor movement (walk, tiptoe, skip, gallop, jump, and leap).

·         10 minutes playing the first version of game

·         8 minutes playing the “detective” game.

·         2 minute review and discovery of “new” shapes.

Strategies

·         Teacher modeling (sing/repeat)

·         Group speaking in parts and together

Procedures

Introduction:

·         Students will be sitting in circle. Teacher will recite the poem and ask students to repeat until most students are able to say the poem without assistance.

·         Teacher will lead students in modeling different locomotor movments: walk, tiptoe, skip, gallop, jump, and leap.

Body:

• Teacher will have students demonstrate different locomotor skills until the music stops. Teacher will call out a shape, and students must step on the nearest shape.
• Teacher will remove shapes until only one shape of each kind is left out.
• Teacher will model finding different environmental shapes in the classroom.
• Teacher will pair off students.
• Students will search for environmental shapes in the classroom while reciting poems.
• Students will share their shapes they found with their partners—then the game will repeat.  

Closure:

·         Students will demonstrate different

Assessment

·         Students will sing informally throughout the lesson by themselves and in groups so that the teacher may evaluate their progress as the lesson continues and fix mistakes. This will better insure the degree to which each individual student is making progress with their music.

 Materials: 

Make sure that your lesson plan fits this template and you outline the lesson exactly like what is discussed in the video lecture. You will turn this lesson plan in on Sakai. 

Thinking ahead for the following few weeks: 

You have a final lesson plan due on Dec. 5th. This is a lesson plan that you will develop that teaches both a musical concept and a concept from another subject area. I want you to use next week (Thanksgiving) to solidify your ideas. Here is a video lecture about several ways to integrate music into the elementary classroom: 

Here is also a video of what your final lesson plan could look like. It is a lesson on "Swimmy" that integrates both reading (sequencing for comprehension) and music: 

Please come up with at least three different ideas about how to incorporate music into other subject areas and send them to me in an email: dilloncm@wvstateu.edu. I will get to these ideas next week over Thanksgiving break and give you constructive feedback. If you need to schedule a time for a video or phone conference, next week is the best time to do so! Thanks!