Music Lesson Plan Grade Level: 3 Unit: Imitation Lesson: Rhythm/Form Date 4/2/24: MUSIC STANDARDS
Singing, alone & w/others
varied repertoire of music
Standards: Performing on instruments,
alone & w/others
varied repertoire of music
Rehearse to refine technical accuracy, expressive qualities, and identified performance challenges. Improvising melodies,
variations, & accompaniments
MU:Pr5.1.3b
Composing & arranging music
within specific guidelines
Demonstrate understanding of the structure in music selected for performance. MU:Pr4.2.3a Reading & notating music
Listening, analyzing,
& describing music
Objectives: Evaluating music &
Students will be able to play the 2 separate rhythmic lines in 2 groups together on drums. performances
Understanding relationship
between music, other arts &
disciplines outside of arts
Prerequisite Knowledge Understanding music in relation
to history & culture
Students know different rhythms and how to count them.
WI TEACHING STANDARDS
Teachers know subjects they’re
Materials & teaching.
Teachers know how children grow.
Equipment: Big chart called “I Can Read That”
Teachers understand that children
learn differently.
Teachers know how to teach.
New/review Vocabulary: Teachers know how to manage
a classroom.
Time signature, bar line, double bar line, measure, quarter note, half note, dotted half note, whole Teachers communicate well.
note, eighth note, duet
Teachers are able to plan different
kinds of lessons.
Teachers know how to test for
student progress.
Procedural Outline: Teachers are able to evaluate
• Ask students what they notice about the chart themselves.
Teachers are connected with
o Tell them/give them hints to what they don’t notice other teachers and the
o Go over/review all vocabulary terms community.
• Speak the rhythms in each line separately, while having them keep beat on their knees. MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
o Have them clap the rhythms afterwards without saying the rhythms, but encourage Verbal-Linguistic
them to say the rhythms in their head Mathematical-Logical
• Split class up into 2 separate groups by giving each person either a “1” or a “2” Musical
• Have the groups speak their different rhythms together, then clapping them together. Have Visual-Spatial
them switch rhythms. Bodily-Kinesthetic
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalist
Existential
• Have everyone grab a drum and perform the rhythms on the drums. Have the groups switch rhythms.
➢ Assessment:
Students will be in 2 separate groups, playing the different rhythms together on drums.
