an interactive podcast for elementary music classrooms
from Louisville Public Media and PRX
Teaching
Introduce: show students how to find their heartbeats
Reinforce: take turns clapping different students’ heartbeat
Assess: pass a drum having students perform their steady beat solo then as group
Introduce: practice clapping rhythms of names
Reinforce: try clapping rhythms of other things like characters, colors, or foods
Assess: have students group words based on rhythmic likeness (ta = red, cow, etc)
Introduce: sing nursery rhyme moving prop(s) to follow pitch
Reinforce: have students join with movement, singing, and other nursery rhymes
Assess: give prop(s) to other students to lead or conduct various songs
Introduce: practice making silly sounds to replicate everyday timbres
Reinforce: use onomatopoeia to describe timbres and match onomatopoeia to
specific instruments
Assess: come up with other scenarios that can be recreated using timbre and
have different groups perform (school bus rides, sports games, and much more)
Introduce: show students how to conduct simple 2/4 or 4/4 patterns
Reinforce: shuffle classical music having students conduct steady beats but stop
when it’s not so steady
Assess: give a student leader a baton to perform for the class and they assess if
the student knows when the beats are steady or not
Introduce: match words or phrases to various rhythms
Reinforce: mix and match words or phrases to make a class poem
Assess: have half the class perform poems and the other half perform the rhythms
(on rhythm instruments or body percussion)
Introduce: play or sing a 3 note melody having students respond with movement
Reinforce: pair students to create their own melodies and movements
Assess: have groups perform, and class can help assess if movements match
Introduce: dance to “Cha Cha Slide” instructing students to listen closely to sfx
Reinforce: start a word wall of terms that can be used to describe sfx
Assess: have students create their own “Cha Cha Slide” variations using timbres they choose
Introduce: shuffle popular instrumentals having students lead different dances
Reinforce: circle up and create a dance routine where each student adds a move
done across 4 beats
Assess: perform the routine seeing who can remember each student’s moves
Introduce: dictate rhythms from a popular song
Reinforce: assign rhythms to different groups of students
Assess: perform song accompanying on rhythm instruments playing at right time
Introduce: play or sing simple 2-note melody having students sing back
Reinforce: try 3-note, 4-note, or even 5-note melodies
Assess: have students do a melodic dictation on paper
Introduce: get short stories from school library or homeroom teachers
Reinforce: act out short stories using timbres as foley or sfx
Assess: use written assessments having students “review” performances,
deciding who had the most appropriate sfx or timbres for their scene
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