SETON HILL UNIVERSITY

Lesson Plan Template Abridged

(May be adapted based on instructors needs)

Pre-Planning
TOPIC
Name
Subject
Grade Level
Date/Duration
Standards/
anchors/
competencies
PA/Common
Core/Standards
And Academic
Standards
(Plus any others
as may be
required)

Formative
AND/OR
Summative
Assessment
Evidence

Objectives
A-B-C-D
Bloom's Taxonomy

DETAILS
CK
Thomas C. McKinney
General Music
Kindergarten
October 2nd, 3rd, 5th
National Standards
1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire
of music.
2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others,
a varied repertoire of music.
9.1.3 A Know and use the elements and principles of
each art form to create works in the arts and
humanities.
9.1.3 B Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a
variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to
produce, review, and revise original works in the arts.
9.1.3 C Recognize and use fundamental vocabulary
within each of the arts forms.
9.1.3 E Demonstrate the ability to define objects,
express emotions, illustrate an action or relate an
experience through creation of works in the arts.
9.1.3 H Handle materials, equipment and tools safely at
work and performance spaces.
9.3.3 B Know that works in the arts can be described by
using the arts elements, principles, and concepts.
9.3.3 D Explain meanings in the arts and humanities
through individual works and the works of others using
a fundamental vocabulary of critical response.
Formal Evaluation
Students will identify color and perform a task when
they see it.
Students will build their own Aiken Drum man as a
class.
Students will sing the rules.
Informal Evaluation
Students will answer questions based upon the lesson
format. For example, what is Aiken drums head made
of?

SWBAT
SWBAT
SWBAT
SWBAT

sing the class rules.

identify a horse.
identify the horses sound.
identify Aiken Drum.

Webb's Depth of
Knowledge (DOK)

SWBAT sing Aiken Drum.

SWBAT sing Horse Song.
SWBAT gallop to the color brown.
SWBAT identify colors: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple,
and Brown.
SWBAT sing Veterans Day Song.
SWBAT sing the Hello Song.

Step-by-Step Procedures
RATIONALE for the
Learning Plan
DETAILS
Introduction
Activating Prior Knowledge

Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory Set
Students will begin with singing of the rules. (Familiar to
them.)
Explicit
Big Idea Statement
Instructions
Music has heritage and reveals culture. Music was used
Big Ideas
for stories.
Essential Questions
Essential
Who is Aiken Drum?
Questions
What sound does the horse say?
Key Vocabulary
Timbre
Symphony
Horse
Scotland
Aiken Drum
Lesson Procedure Pre-Assessment of Students
Must include
Warm up
adaptations &
1. Review the rules through singing
accommodations
1. Sol-Mi will be used as we sing.
for students with
2. The teacher will use the colored circle to let
special needs
the students know when to sing. (Red and
Green)
Accommodations,
2. The teacher will sing, Hello, Hello, with the
Modifications
students.
1. The teacher will sing a specific colored
square and the students sitting in those
colors will stand.
2. The students will pat or clap to the interlude.
The students will sit and the process will repeat until all
students have stood.
Modeling of the Concept
The teacher will have the students maintain a steady
beat when they sing.
The teacher will demonstrate the motions for all
movements and songs.
Transition

CK

 Students will find seats after the warm up.

Guiding the Practice
Veterans day song
The teacher will use echo singing to teach the students
the 2nd verse to the Veterans Day song.
The students will sing the Veterans Day song. (Visuals
may be added)
Providing the Independent Practice
Color Game
The teacher will review the colors for the color game.
1. The students will identify the proper move for each
color.
The teacher will introduce a new color. (Brown)
1. The students will gallop when they see brown.
2. The teacher will apply different colors in place and
have the students identify the movement.
The teacher will review the color game rules.
Students will move on the carpet only. This will be done
to specific color cues.
1. (Red = stop Yellow = walk Green = light jog Blue =
Tiptoe Purple = hop in place Brown = Gallop)
Review rules
1. Students cannot leave the carpet
2. Students will freeze with both feet on the ground
3. Students will not run into other students.
4. Fingers on lips. (No talking)
1. Reinforced with class rule: Mouth is ready
to sing, on sol and mi.
Farm songs
The teacher will review the previously learned animal.
(Cow)
The students will sing the Cow song and pat on Moo
The teacher will introduce this weeks animal. (Horse)
1. What animal is this?
2. What sound does the Horse make?
3. How do you spell Horse?
The teacher will sing The Horse Song
The students will raise their knees when they hear the
Horses sound. (Neigh)
The students will sing the cow song and pat their heads
when they hear Neigh.
The teacher will introduce the woodblock
1. Explain how to play the instrument.
1. Students will strike the woodblock with a
mallet.
2. Explain how not to play the woodblock.
1. We dont hit other friends.
Aiken Drum Activity
The teacher will introduce Aiken Drum and provide a

Materials
(reading,
technology,
equipment,
supplies, etc.)

Closure

brief history.
o Scottish tune based on a man made of food.
o Appears when you see the moon. (People saw
things in the moon)
The teacher will sing Aiken Drum to the students.
o Students will pat the beat on legs
o The teacher will teach in parts through echoes.
The teacher will present various instruments to make
our music Aiken Drum Man
o Students will suggest what his body is made up
of.
Example: Drum as head, Maracas for
hands.
o Students will pat the their heads when we sing
about the head. (Same for the whole creation.)
The teacher will take a picture of the Aiken Drum man
after the activity.
Clean up.
Back Pocket Activity: The Wild Horseman. (In Book)
Adaptations/Accommodations for Students with Special
Needs
Exceptional Students
1. Students can be sat next to good matchers to
assist them in finding pitch.
2. Use of instructional aids
Students with physical disabilities
1. Special seating for wheel chair students
2. Broken armed students will use good arm to play
maraca.
Allow them to be special helpers.
Visuals will be used for special needs.
Color names will be spoken for color blind students.
Projector
Chalk Board
Chalk
Copy of Aiken Drum Song.
Copy of Aiken Drum pictures.
Copy of the Horse Song.
Copy of the Veterans Day Song.
Recording of the Veterans Day Song.
Colored Squares (Brown, Blue, Green, Red, Yellow, and
Purple)
Camera (To take pictures of our Aiken drum man to
hang outside of class.
Copy of The Wild Horseman.
Summary & Review of the Learning
N/A
Homework/Assignments


Other(This area
is to be
determined by
instructor OR
student as
needed)
Supervising
teacher
comments and
signature

No Homework.