Fast or Slow? Music Lesson Plan
Fast or Slow? Music Lesson Plan
Fast or Slow? Music Lesson Plan
Materials needed:
Baby Shark song (slow)
Baby Shark song (fast)
Participating students
Procedure:
A.S: What animals move fast? What about animals that move slow? Music can have
different speeds too. Fast and slow, and that is called TEMPO.
1. First, ask student what animals can move fast (i.e. cheetah, lion, etc.). Allow
students to give their answers. This will allow them to understand what animals
can move at a fast pace.
2. Next, ask students what animals can move slow (i.e. turtle, sloth, etc.). Allow
students to give their answers again. This will allow them to understand what
animals move at a slow pace.
3. Then, ask students what animals can move slow and fast (i.e. dog, cheetah, cat,
etc.). Allow students to give their answers. This will allow them to understand
that different animals have different paces.
4. Now, connect the previous information to music. Music can be fast, or slow and
we call this TEMPO.
5. Now that students know what animals move slow, what animals move fast, and
what TEMPO is, they can apply it to music by listening and moving fast or slow.
6. Now tell students that a song will be played and they have to move normally, fast
like a cheetah, or slow like a turtle.
7. Play a song, in this case, Baby Shark, at normal speed. Children should identify as
in between fast and slow. So they should be walking, or moving around the class
at a normal pace.
8. Now, change the playback speed of the song so that it is at a faster pace than
normal. Children should be listening and identifying the pace of the music as fast.
They should now be walking, or moving fast, like a cheetah or a lion in general
space.
9. Change the playback speed again so that it is at a slower pace than normal.
Children should be listening and identifying the pace of the music as slow. They
should now be walking, or moving slow like a turtle or a sloth in general space.
10. Keep playing with the playback speed of the music, and make sure the children
are listening and moving to the pace.
Closure: Review with the children what they learned after the activity. Children should
now understand what music sounds like when it is fast and when it is slow, and they
should identify this as TEMPO.
Educational Objective: By the end of this lesson, students will have learned what fast
and slow music sounds like and the meaning of TEMPO.
Rehearse,
5. Reading & Evaluate, & Refine
Notating MU:Cr3.1 PKa
MU:Cr3.1 Ka
MU:Cr3.1 a
Present
6. Listening MU:Cr3.2.1 a
Responding
7. Evaluating Select
Analyze
MU:Pr4.2.1 a
8. Integration
Interpret
(outside arts) MU:Pr4.3 PKa
Evaluate
9. History/Culture Connecting
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