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Standard GM.CR

GM.CR Creating - I can use the elements of music to communicate new musical ideas and works.

Grade(s): Kindergarten, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Subject(s): Visual & Performing Arts, Visual & Performing Arts

Year: 2017

Cup Compositions
Cup Compositions

Lesson

Students will use plastic cups to create their own compositions using symbolic notation and traditional notation of half notes, quarter notes, and eighth notes.

Making Music With the Pout, Pout Fish
Making Music With the Pout, Pout Fish

Lesson

This lesson will be the culminating lesson at the end of a unit on instruments, tone color, and how music can help tell a story. The students would have already learned about the families of the...

Adding Lyrics
Adding Lyrics

Lesson

This lesson builds upon students' music composition skills by having them follow steps they have previously used, and then go one step further by adding lyrics. The objective is to have students...