Recycle This

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Arts Education

Grade(s)

3

Overview

Students will listen to the story Something from Nothing by Phoebe Gilman and discuss recycling.  They will sing the Shaker song Simple Gifts.  They will listen to an arrangement of Simple Gifts by Aaron Copland and compare/contrast the original to the arrangement.   

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 3 - Music

AE17.MU.3.16

Demonstrate and describe how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, or purposes.

UP:AE17.MU.3.16

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Bar lines
  • Measures
    • Melody
      • Pitch set: Low So, Low La, High Do
      • Treble clef reading (Mi, Re, Do)
      • Middle C to high G
      • Ledger lines
      Harmony
      • Partner songs
      • Rounds
      • Ostinati
      Form
      • Theme and variations
      • Coda
      • D.S. al coda
      • Repeat sign
      • Fermata
      Expression
      • Phrase/ phrasing
      • Pianissimo (pp), fortissimo (ff)
      Other
      • Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette
      • Orchestral instruments: 4 families
      • Age-appropriate pitch matching (Bb3 - Eb5)

Essential Questions

EU: Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
EQ: How do individuals choose music to experience?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Using movement, manipulatives, or visual representation, demonstrate and describe how specific music concepts are used to support a specific purpose in music (such as different sections, selected orchestral, band, folk, or ethnic instruments).
Creating
  • Express melodic contour through movement.
Reading/ Writing
  • When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns and/or melodic phrases with voice, body percussion, and/or instruments, using iconic or standard notation.
  • Develop criteria and use them to critique their own performances and the performances of others.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Identify and respond to simple music forms (e.g., AB, ABA).
  • Identify elements of music using appropriate vocabulary.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.

CR Resource Type

Learning Activity

Resource Provider

Other

License Type

CUSTOM

Resource Provider other

Cleveland Orchestra
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