General Music
Lesson Examples from Student Teaching
1st Grade
Lesson focusing on improvisation and blues music. Features improvisation through clapping and barred instruments.
3rd Grade
2nd Grade
Lesson focusing on improvisation and blues music. Features improvisation through clapping and barred instruments. Also features introduction to a new folk dance activity
Lesson focused on introducing blues music, including musical and lyrical structure.
5th Grade
Lesson focusing on "syn-co-pa" rhythms, playing Orff instruments, notes on the treble staff, and introduction to "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
4th Grade
Lesson focused on adding instrument parts to the song "Follow the Drinking Gourd". Also features rhythm practice.
6th Grade
An example unit focused on Black History Month and historically black genres of music. Was taught over the course of an entire month.
