Music Core Standards to provide students opportunities to achieve musical proficiency in Four Artistic Processes: Creating, Performing, Responding, and Connecting.
Below are suggested activities that are related to Music Core Standards - Creating, Performing and Responding . Feel free to modify the materials to meet your needs.
GRADE
*Depth of Knowledge
Demonstrate skills and competency levels in Performing.
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Pr4.1: A. Perform music for a specific purpose with expression and technical accuracy.
- GrK: *Explore and demonstrate preference for varied musical selections.
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- e.g., Folk, pop, ethnic, and Classical music (wide variety of music)
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- Hula Noho: E Ike Mai
- Hula: CAT Popoki
- Singing Game:
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- Kagome (Japanese)
- Naughty Kitty Cat (Hungarian)
- Action Song:
- Classical Music: Vivaldi:
Pr4.2: A. Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
- GrK: *Explore and demonstrate awareness of music contrasts in a variety of music.
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- Beat & Rhythm:
- Long & Short:
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- Doggie Doggie
- Zhao Peng You;
- Samoan Sasa;
- High & Low:
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- Zhao Peng You (Chinese);
- Don't let the pigeon drive the bus;
- Fast & Slow:
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- Tong Tong Tong Tong (Filipino)/ Tong Tong Tong Tong;
- Samoan Sasa;
- Same & Different:
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- Doggie Doggie
Pr4.3: Enduring Understanding: Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.
- GrK: *Demonstrate awareness of expressive qualities that support creators' expressive intent.
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- Solo and group:
- Dynamic:
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- Going on a bear hunt
- *Little Rabbit Foo Foo (soft);
- Smooth & Jerky:
- Fast & Slow:
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- Going on a bear hunt
Pr5.1: Enduring Understanding: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
- GrK: With guidance, apply teacher and peer feedback to refine performances.
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- Call and Response:
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- Zhao Peng You;
- Pole Pole (Africa);
- Charlie Over the Ocean;
Pr6.1: Enduring Understanding: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.
Demonstrate skills and competency levels in Responding.
Re7.1: Enduring Understanding: Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
- GrK: List, with guidance, personal interests and experiences that influence musical listening preferences.
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- Classical:
Re8.1: Enduring Understanding: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
- GrK: A. *Explore dynamics and tempo that reflect creators’/performers’ expressive intent in a selected musical work.
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- Loud and Soft, Smooth:
Re9.1: Enduring Understanding: The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established.
- GrK: With guidance, *explore and list personal and expressive preferences of music.
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- Non-locomotor:
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- Vivaldi, Spring,
- Vivaldi, Winter,
- Saint-Saëns: Aquarium
- Hula Noho
- Locomotor:
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- Dance: Break Mixer
- Dalcroze
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- Peguin
- Buffalo
- Giraffe
- Monkey
- Wild animals