Teaching Instruments and Sounds with Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin!
Pam West
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Chambersburg Area School District
TI:ME Technology Areas Addressed:
Electronic Musical Instruments
Level:
Elementary
Class:
General Music
Equipment:
Midi Keyboard
Duration:
30 Minutes
Prior Knowledge and Skills:
none
MENC Standards Addressed:
MENC 2: Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
MENC 3: Improvising melodies, harmonies, and accompaniments.
MENC 8: Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
Materials:
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin! ((Lloyd Moss/Simon & Schuster) midi keyboard list of general music assignments (from keyboard manual) pictures of instruments featured in the book
Objectives:
This lesson introduces primary level students to instruments by sight and sound. It also reinforces rhyming words and literacy. The students have a chance to be creative by improvising music on the keyboard and get their hands on the instrument.
Procedures:
As the teacher reads the book, the students will improvise short melodies using the sounds on the keyboard that coordinate with the instruments in hte book. As a review, a student will play a sound selected by the teacher randomly while another student finds it’s picture from a group.
Evaluation:
Students will be able to identify several orchestral instruments by sight and sound.
Follow Up:
Anything to further enhance the instrumental lessons. At higher levels, the keyboard could be used to compare the sound qualities of the instruments in a family or play the same tune using different sounds.
Items to Purchase:
book (about $15) and a keyboard if they are not readily available
When budget should be submitted:
