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 Music Unit GAMEPlan Lesson Two By Kathy Ramsey GradeLevel: Elementary Unit:Musical Instruments

**GOALS** Content Standards:

Listening to,analyzing, and describing music

**ISTE NETS-S Standards****﻿** 1.Creativityand innovation 4.Critical thinking, problem solving 2.Communication and Collaboration 5.Digital citizenship 3.Researchand information literacy 6.Technology operations & concepts

**ACTION** **Before-Class Preparation**: Review musical families. Divide students into same small groups as previous lesson. Identify and bookmark appropriate websites (if needed). Teacher will set up a classroom wiki. Teacher will also set up four separate pages on the wiki. Each page will include a title page for each instrument family. **During Class**
 * **Time** || **Instructional Activities** || **Materials & Resources** ||
 * 5 minutes

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">30 minutes

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">10 minutes || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Distribute and review the assessment rubric for the wiki. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Describe a wiki and encourage students to visit the website wikis in plain English.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Organize students into groups of four students per group. Each group must post a picture, description, and how-to-make instructions on the instrument that they chose to design. Students work collaboratively on their recycled instrument posting, going through the processes of researching, note taking, writing, development of the product, and review. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Teacher presents a presentation of the completed classroom wiki. During presentations, teacher will ask probing questions, such as similarities between their instrument and its family. Are there any differences? Teacher will ask each group: Did the instrument work effectively? What would you change about the instrument? What did you like/dislike about your instrument? || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">Rubric <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Bookmarked websites <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|www.wikispaces.com] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Reference books || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**MONITOR** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">**­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­OngoingAssessments (s):** Students will use a teacher-generated rubric to identify content-specific requirements for the presentation as well as the quality of the wiki including appropriate grammar and language usage. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Accommodationsand Extensions:** Students who speak other languages can incorporate their language into the wiki in addition to English. Students with physical handicaps could be of help in designing an instrument for students with these types of special accommodations and post instructions on how to use the instrument with ease.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**EVALUATION** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**﻿** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">**LessonReflections and Notes:** Consider how students would share their group projects, whether through a school website, blog, newsletter, or a parent conference. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Reflect on students’ connections of the material being covered and their project. Did they seem to have more of a connection utilizing technology with their project?