Element to teach: memorization through
drawing Grade level: 3rd Concept: me students will learn music can be
remembered with the help of pictures that they draw to remember
it. Objectives:
Students will look at the song "America the
beautiful" and find a place in it where they are
having trouble remembering the song.
Students will draw the picture that comes to mind about
the spot that they are having trouble remembering.
Students will share their picture with the rest of the
class and talk about how it helps them remember a
particular part of the song.
Materials: song "America the
Beautiful", paper, markers, crayons, and or colored
pencils, starting pitch on the piano
Preliminary procedure: Teacher will talk with
the students about what thing they do to help them remember a
song.
Procedures:
The teacher tells the students that they will be drawing
a picture to the song "America the beautiful"
at a particular part that they don't remember.
The teacher will have the students turn to the song and
find the part of the song that they are having particular
trouble with, while she is passing out the markers,
crayons, and colored pencils.
Students will get out a sheet of paper and draw what they
see in that particular part of the song.
Students will share their work and talk about how it
helps them remember the line of the song better.
Students and teacher will sing through the song together.
As the students come to the part that they had trouble
with they will hold up their picture to show that they
know where that part fits into the song.
Ask the students if drawing the picture did help them
remember the song.
Evaluation:
The students pictures will show if they understand the
phrase or if more a more detailed explanation needs to be
given.
When the students hold up their picture at the point
where they are suppose to it will tell you if they
remembered the song and how it went.
Follow up: Review ways which help us to
remember something better.
Musical Concept: I would teach rhythm
patterns and have the students identify the phrases based on the
rhythm patterns.
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