Lesson Topic: Woodwind Family of Instruments Length of lesson: 45 minute class period

Grade level: 3-5 th

Stage 1 Desired Results Content Standard(s): M3GM.6: Listening, analyzing, and describing music c. Identify and classify classroom and various orchestral instruments by sight and sound. Understanding (s)/goals Students will understand: What the instruments of the woodwind family look like What sounds the woodwind family instruments make Why the woodwind instruments were classified together Essential Question(s): How is music played on woodwind instruments? What are the different types of woodwind instruments? What sounds do the orchestral woodwind instruments make?

Student objectives (outcomes): Students will be able to: * Name the different woodwind instruments by sight * Answer questions about the various woodwind instruments

Stage 2 Assessment Evidence Performance Task(s): Other Evidence: Goal: Be able to identify the After listening to the podcast woodwind instruments by sight and and taking notes, the students answer factual questions about the will answer several questions instruments. about the woodwind instruments. These questions Role: Student-aide to the music will be discussed at the end of teacher the lesson, with immediate feedback given. Audience: Music Teacher Situation: You are an aide to the music teacher and it is your job to put the instruments back where they belong at the end of the day. Someone came in earlier and put the instruments in the wrong place. Using the facts and picture that the music teacher put on each instruments case, you must get all

the instruments back in place before the music teacher gets back from her after-school duty. Performance: Determine which instrument should go in which case by looking at the picture and reading the listed facts. Standard: You will be graded based on a given answer key

Stage 3 Learning Plan Learning Activities: 1. Ask the students if they know the names of the different families of instruments. 2. List the families of instrument names: Woodwind, Brass, String, and Percussion. 3. Explain to the students that today we will be learning about the Woodwind family of instruments. 4. Show the students the podcast created about the Woodwind family of instruments. 5. Give the students the Mixed Up Instruments Sheet. This is a sheet that has the wrong instruments matched with pictures and facts. They must match them up correctly to get them back in the appropriate cases. Play the podcast again while they have the sheet to refer back and forth to. 6. Give the students the Woodwind Family Questions sheet. Play the podcast for a third time. They must answer the questions based on the information in the podcast. 7. Collect up the question sheets, then re-distribute them so that each student has someone elses sheet. Go over the correct answers, having the students check for the right answers.