Can You Play Music without Instruments?

ART

Curiosity trigger

Students will create a “live” soundtrack for a cartoon, perform a melody in teams using everyday objects, and watch a film about a virtual choir.

Curriculum and Skills

Work and Life Skills:

Teamwork and collaboration skills
Social and cultural awareness

In this lesson, you will cover:

NATIONAL CORE ARTS STANDARDS:
MU.Cr1.1.2.a. Improvise rhythmic and melodic patterns and musical ideas for a specific purpose.
MU.Cr1.1.3.a. Improvise rhythmic and melodic ideas, and describe connection to specific purpose and context (such as personal and social ).

You will need

Everyday objects on which you can produce various types of sounds (spoons, wooden sticks, seeds in a jar, crumpled paper, balloons etc.).

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Authors

Author: Katarzyna Kamer
Speaker: Sonja Larson
Methodology: Joanna Miszkiel, Marta Przywara
Translation: George Lisowski
Producer: Marta Przywara

Source

This is a modified version of a lesson plan created by the Children’s University Foundation under the CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. Photo Christmas Tree Lighting - U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys, South Korea - 30 November 2012 by USAG- Humphreys published on flickr under the CC-BY 2.0 license.

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