Movement
Music Lesson Plan
Title: Lollipop
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
Source: Dr. McConkey
Materials needed: Colored cards or any manipulative you can assign a
movement too
Procedure:
AS: Where can we see patterns?
1.Assign movement to the colored cards.
2. Yellow-jump, green-jog, blue-gallop, red-squats
3. Ask the children what a pattern of movements creates.
4. The students are then instructed to get into groups of four.
5. Once in a group, they’re instructed to create their own pattern (dance)
with the four colored cards (movements)
6. The children are then given time to practice their pattern.
7. After the given amount of time, each group is given a chance to perform
the pattern/dance that they created.
Closure: What types of patterns did we do?
Educational Objective: By the end of this lesson, students will have learned . . .
How to look for and create patterns
Social/ Cognitive Physical Musical Non-Musical
Subjects
Emotional
Working Thinking Using their National Standards “Core” Music Content
Standards Standards
together in a about bodies to
group different create 1. Singing Creating: Learning colors
setting. patterns to certain • AS 2: and how objects
Organize can symbolize
create a movements and
something else.
Following dance they 2. Play Instruments
develop
along with wanted. artistic
movements ideas and
3. Improvising work
with peers. Memorizing
which Imagine
movement They imagined the
4. Composing kind of patterns
went with they wanted for the
each card. colors
Plan and Make
5. Reading & They planned out
Notating what each color
represented as a
dance move.
6. Listening Evaluate & Refine
They practiced it
Present
MU:Cr1.1.3a They presented it
to the whole class
Improvise rhythmic
Performing
and melodic ideas,
Select
and describe Yes
connection to Analyze
specific purpose Yes
and context (such Interpret
as personal and Rehearse,
social). Evaluate, & Refine
Yes
Present
Yes
7. Evaluating Responding
Select
Analyze
8. Integration Interpret
(outside arts)
Evaluate
Connecting
Connect #10
9. History/Culture
Connect #11