Example 2

Since I teach music my action plan is geared toward integrating other subjects with music.  

SCULPTURE CARDS

The sculpture cards have many interesting shapes and emotions connected with them.  I could use them in my class to match the sculpture with a piece of music that "sounds" like the picture "looks".

SPERTUS KITS

The spertus kits would be very good to bring in some actual Jewish artifacts/instruments/ music into the room to share culture with the students.

SONG LITERATURE

The students really like to see songs written out in book form with illustrations.  I use many different books in my room now but there are many more I’d like to get. There are many different activities that could flow from the songbooks. Students could make their own books to illustrate a song they like. They then could share their books with a younger class.

VISUAL PICTURES

Instead of using an actual song with very clear images, the students can listen to a piece of music and come up with a “still” picture to create to represent that piece of music to them. Then they could journal about their picture and how it fits the music.          

MAKE INSTRUMENTS

This is a project that I’d like my 3rd graders to have this coming year. I would give them a few criteria that each instrument must have. Then let them create their own musical instrument at home and bring them in to share and explain how they work.

RAINFOREST

There are many sounds, in nature that man has tried to imitate over the years. The rainstick is one instrument that was created to imitate a sound in nature.  We can explore why man wanted to imitate certain sounds in nature and how he accomplished it.  

BOOMWHACKERS

The students can use color to create their own songs and then have the class play them using boomwhackers.  Boomwhackers are different lengths of plastic tubing that are each tuned to a different note. Each tube is a different color, therefore each not is represented by a certain color.

PICTURES/PAINTINGS

The students really like to see historical pictures that tie in with different songs we are working on. I would like to find more sources of these to use in my room.