Students learn to identify tension and release within a piece of music.
Students use language and movement to explore accents in music.
Students explore expressive qualities in music through listening, singing, and moving.
Students demonstrate expressive qualities of music through movement.
Students identify musical form through movement.
Students use pitch to explore the characters in a story.
Students explore first and second endings by singing and moving.
Students compose and notate short melodies using their names.
Students compose and notate short 4/4, 3/4, and 6/8 rhythms across multiple class periods.
The K–12 Arts Learning Standards for Dance, Media Arts, Music, Theater, and Visual Arts can be downloaded from the OSPI Learning Standards and Instructional Materials webpage at: https://www.k12.wa.us/student-success/learning-standards-instructional-materials.
Depending on the focus of arts education in a given district or school, one or more of the five Arts Learning Standards documents can be used to guide instruction and help students develop competency in the arts.
This document covers Music, which may include, but is not limited to, but is not limited to, general music, choir, band, orchestra, music theory, world and historical music, opera, and musical theater,
Students create different versions of a known song and listen to contrasting recordings for musical differences and similarities.
Students brainstorm strategies to guide their listening as they describe and label music of different genres.
This website guidance document provides an overview of Carnegie Hall's Musical Explorers Digital program. The site connects students in grades K–2 to rich and diverse musical communities as they build fundamental music skills through listening, singing, and moving to songs from all over the world.
The United States Army Band "Pershing's Own" provides musical support for the leadership of the United States, to include all branches of government, and to a wide spectrum of national and international events in order to connect the Army to the American people.For teachers and students at all levels, as well as many parents, we know there is a real need for finding quality educational tools and content. We hope you enjoy what our world-class musicians have created to help us all stay connected through music.
Students create a class composition of a thunderstorm by exploring expressive qualities of crescendo/decrescendo and accelerando/ritardando
This unit, developed by Northshore School District in Washington, contains four days of lessons with suggested extensions that connect with SEL Standards 1, 2, 4, and 5 and Music Standard 2, 3, 4 and 11. The class will create the verses to the song “Floating in Space”. Students will engage in activities where they analyze emotional characteristics of music, practice emoting without words, review “song form” and rhyming patterns, and review space vocabulary words.
Students read, perform, and compose four-beat rhythmic patterns.
Students create movements to represent long and short rhythmic patterns and compose patterns using non-traditional notation.
Students play an identification game of hot and cold using their voices and dynamics.
Modeling Our World with Mathematics Unit 6: The Arts Topic 1 - Catch a Wave with Music