Music Lesson Plan

Joleena and I will be doing a beginner music lesson in Ed 261/109 today. The rational for this lesson is to have students engage in creativity by understanding notes on a staff as well as note values which will in turn give them access to create their own music. The students will hopefully remember the lesson by using the technology of their pencil and staff paper and making scales and taking notes of the lesson. Other technology that will be used is the piano but will be accessed online. The students will use the pianos to visualize the lesson plan as well as hear it from the teacher. We hope the students will understand the material they will be given today to help them better understand music in the future. The lesson plan will be   for beginners but the technology used will hopefully be familiar to more advanced academic students. By using the staff paper, the students will apply information given to them and will have the knowledge to use it in different ways. Aside from staff paper and online pianos, Joleena and I will also be using a white board to assist us with our lesson plan and give the students a general place to access information that is being discussed. We will also use google docs when discussing the names of notes on the staff, for students to come up with their own acronyms for remembering the notes on a staff. Struggles that may come into play for this lesson could be students not understanding the material and not sure what to ask to get help. Students who haven't been around a piano could have trouble understanding how the piano is beneficial to this lesson and what exactly all the piano keys mean. After this lesson students who are not interested in music or have music classes will most likely forget the material discussed in class and therefore won't engage themselves as much as they could. The technology being used will be familiar to several of the students in Ed 261 today but could take more learning time in a younger aged class.
The lesson plan outline and plan will go as follows. We will start with having the students access piano keyboards on their computers and having them become more familiar with the technology by messing around with it. Then we will discuss the names of notes on the staff using the white board and then have the students use google docs to come up with their own acronyms for remembering the note names. We will then discuss the whole and half steps between the notes and then proceed to note values. After note values have been introduced we will then talk about key signatures and how to remember them. Once note names, note values and key signatures have been touched on, we will then have the students make their own music scale using the staff paper given to them. We will walk around the class room and assist students who are having trouble. Once all of the key points in our lesson have been addressed, we will do a review of the material and end the music lesson.