Victoria Alaimo
A&HM 4029
Project #3: Elementary Lesson Plan
OBJECTIVES: String Students will be able to play and read notes on the A String by learning to identify each note by name, location on the staff, and finger number on their instrument. Students will learn to play different fingering patterns using these notes by performing different permutations and creating their own.
PURPOSE: Students will develop comfort with reading and using notes on the A string.
MATERIALS:
v Instrument
(violin, viola, cello or bass)
v Computer
with notation software
v Projector
and projection screen
v Power
point presentation prepared with musical examples of A string notes identified
by name, location on staff, and finger number
v Essential
Elements Book 1Method book for each student with musical examples
that coincide with the ones in Power Point
v Audio
CD of accompaniments for method book musical examples
v Boom
Box or stereo with a CD player
ANTICIPATORY SET: A string notes are shown on the overhead in Power Point on the staff, students are asked to guess what the finger pattern for the four notes are.
PROCEDURE:
STUDENT UNDERSTANDING:
CLOSURE:
Have each student go up to the
projection screen and point to where the notes in their permutation go on the
staff. Teacher inputs the note on
the staff as the students point. Put
each permutation in a different measure and create a group-composed song. Perform
the song together.
EXTENSIONS:
Students can repeat the same lesson on each string. Students can repeat the notation portion of the lesson to combine notes from more than one string in order to explore and learn larger intervals.