K-12 Lesson Plans
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Title:
Carnival
of the
Animals
Submitted By:
James Berry,
Objective:
Students
will have
an understanding of various timbres and how the instruments correlate
with the
animals that they represent.
Listening to, analyzing, and describing music (6)
Materials:
Desktop or Laptop Computer to hook up to your projector
Carnival of the Animals Recording (seen below)
Carnival of the Animals Powerpoint Presentation (click here to download it)
CD Player or ipod
Procedure:
1. Find a space in your
room where you can project your image from the computer using the
projector. You may need to ask your local technology coordinator
for help with this part. A white wall or screen will work very
well.
2.
Load
the Carnival of the Animals powerpoint presentation and get your iPod
ready to play excerpts from Carnival of the Animals.
3.
Tell
the students they will be listening to a parade of animals
represented by music. Talk about how each animal will have their
own special sound.
4.
The
powerpoint presentation contains pictures of the various
animals. Play the excerpt first and then have a student come up
to the screen or wall and point at which animal they think it is.
Based on their response, the slide will either applaud or zap. If
it applauds it will continue to the next slide. Warning: If you click
anywhere not on the animals it will also go to the next slide, so be
careful where you click. Here is the order of the
slides/excerpts. Remember to play the excerpt before having the
students come up and pick which animals they think match.
Order:
lion, roosters, horses,
turtle, elephants, kangaroo, fish, donkey, cuckoo, piano, fossils
(dinosaur), swan
5.
Wrap
up by congratulating the kids on matching the animals to the music
and see if they could remember without using the projector and just
playing the music.
Assessment /
Extension:
