Student goals are:
- given visual examples, label instruments of the string family correctly
- define the string family as instruments of the orchestra that are played by bowing or plucking
String Family Lesson Plan - Day 1 - I can label string instruments.
- Good Morning Greetings
- Pitch Exploration - Lomax the Hound of Music Video - Arkansas Traveler showing string instruments
- Songbird Challenge (individual pitch matching check)
- String Family - The teacher will briefly discuss each instrument and play about 30 seconds of each video.
- Play Game (Place 4 - 6 beanbags on the floor (or instrument names / photos), students may move around the classroom while they listen. The teacher will pause the music and students must freeze at a beanbag. Teacher calls a color of beanbag and those students are out of the game. Continue.
Violin
Photo by photographer23 via flickr
| Flight of the Bumblebee -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtAu7xkwNjQ |
Viola
Photo by "20130417-30 Jazz Strings 2013" by Meredith Bell via flickr
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Cello
Photo 20140317-64 SHS March Orchestra Concert 2014-Edit by Meredith Bell via flickr
| Swan from Carnival of the Animals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSE76MqZL-c |
Bass
Photo "IMEA 2012 (31 of 96)" by Meredith Bell via flickr
| Column 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV--SyCo7aA |
Harp
Photo harp" by Robert Couse-Baker via flickr
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The Fountain
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Banjo
Photo Banjo!" by Nathan O'Nions
| Steve Martin and Kermit the Frog - Dueling Banjos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gNuj8UkyC4 |
Guitar
Photo "guitar practice" by woodleywonderworks via flickr
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| More Amazing String Videos! |
Lindsey Stirling
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String Family Books - While students did the following items, they listened to/watched the videos above. Students who were really on track were selected by the teacher to pick the next video.
- Students cut out pages
- Arrange pages in this order:
- My String Family
- Violin
- Viola
- Cello
- String Bass
- Guitar
- Banjo
- Harp
- Raise hand. Teacher will staple pages.
- Paper scraps to recycling bin. Scissors to scissor box.
- Select 1 crayon. Write your name on the cover page.
- As a class, turn through the pages of their book. Color the appropriate instrument on the Violin, Viola, Cello, and Bass pages.
Tic Tac Toe - Divide class into 2 teams. The teacher will ask questions about string instruments or will ask students to name the string instruments. Students answering correctly will earn a tic tac toe marker on the board.
Exit Slip - place pictures of violin, viola, cello, and bass on the floor. Students name them as they walk by. Students naming them incorrectly go to the end of the line. Or display this image: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzshsl6W45K9LS1UeXJ2SV9EUDQ/edit?usp=sharing
String Family Lesson Plan - Day 2 - I can label string instruments.
- Students retrieved a clipboard as they entered the music room and sat in their floor circle.
- Good Morning Greetings
- String Families
- Review
- Label and Color String Instruments - a student assistant gave each student a pencil and a worksheet. When students had completed their worksheet, they raised their hand. If they had labeled the instruments correctly, they turned in their pencil and moved to a riser spot where crayon boxes had been placed. Students colored while the other students continued to label.
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzshsl6W45K9LS1UeXJ2SV9EUDQ/edit?usp=sharing
- Guess my Instrument / Musical Word Guess (Hangman)
- Play Flight of the Bumblebee Game
Additional Ideas
- Fiddler's Playing
- Oh Suzannah
- No One's In the House But Dinah
- Arkansas Traveler
- Fiddle-De-Dee
- Cockadoodle doo, my dame has lost her shoe
- Hornpipe from Handel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsuWV7PNNW8&list=PLhYp8npMbHTigaZLoeg7n3St1D0TDC6so
- Rolls into next week's lesson on Handel
