Final Project

Target Audience: 9^th and 10^th grade

Time: 1^st & 3rd period

Classroom Teacher Ms. Tiffany Tyndall

North Carolina Standards Course of Study area addressed National standards addressed:

- Develop skills in improvising music

- Develop skills in composing music

- Develop skills in arranging music

- Develop skills in listening to, analyzing, and evaluating musical experiences

Lesson outcomes (objectives)

-The students will be able to create their own melody.

-The students will work in groups to establish some teamwork abilities.

-The students will be able to perform in front of their peers.

Music and Materials Needed

-Paper

-Pencils

-Laptop

-Microphone

-Soundation Studio

-Television or Projector

-Camcorder

Step-by-Step Lesson

First, I will put the students into random groups based on the number of students that are present that day. In their groups, the students will have to pick one life lesson they have learned (it can be since they have been in the class or just from their parents), after the life lesson has been approved by me they will have to create a jingle with their group members. They will be given 20 minutes to come up with a melody.  After 20 minutes they have to perform it in front of their classmates. It is important that the classmates can identify the life lesson by their performance without being told what it is. While the students are performing their jingle, I will record it using Soundation Studio (audio) and with a camcorder (video). Soundation Studio allows me to burn a copy for the students to take home and let their parents listen to their jingle.

Conclusion

After every group has performed, we will discuss the life lessons that were addressed. The groups are not allowed to tell the class what their life lesson is until we talk about it as a whole. I will sit down with the students and write out the different life lessons that the students discussed to make sure that they could recognize every lesson from the jingle that was sung. After we have discussed it, the students and I will watch their performance via video. This allows the students to see what was successful about their jingle and what could have been improved and ultimately giving them a chance to actually see their performance for themselves.

Evaluation

-See how well this lesson plan works for the students

-See how well they work with their peers

-See how creative the students are

Reflection

This lesson plan allowed me to see how well the students worked together to create their jingle. When I walked around to approve the life lesson for the jingles, I noticed that everyone was working together and that they had all came to an agreement about what they wanted to use. There was not one team that I saw had just one dominant person telling them what to do. Once they were ready to present their performances to the classroom they did a wonderful job and a lot of the students wanted to see some performances twice. This is a really good lesson plan to use when you are trying to see how creative the students are, I was really impressed. I will combine all of their performances and use Imovie to create a video. I will use this video for the student I have next semester so that they can get an idea of what the students before them did for this assignment.