Lesson Plan

Name: Justin Cruz Date: December 4th , 2018

Grade: 11 Class Type: Secondary Methods

1. Measurable Objective(s): (Measurable learning objectives use action verbs to

describe what you want the students to be able to do by the end of the class, course,
or unit)

Students will learn to identify intervals, using key relation, half step counting, or
imagining a keyboard. Also allowing students to think of different ways to
understand interval reading
2. Required Prior Knowledge and Skills: (What must students know to be
successful) Ability to read music staves, and keys in major and minor.

3. Review Needed:(What needs to be reviewed to reinforce prior learning related

to this lesson)
Accidentals
Different Keys
Half Step and Whole Step
Scale Intervals

4. Materials, Repertoire, Equipment needed:

White Board, Markers, Piano, and Stave Paper
5. Agenda: (list items to be taught and post – use large paper and dark marker if
white board is not available)
1. Worksheet
2. Intervals
3. Scales
4. What we learned

6. Lesson Sequence (be sure to list time in the pacing section) Pacing

A. Brief Opening: (Teacher posted brief assignment that may be

done independently. Brief reading writing, editing, or problem
solving activity to ready them for learning – may be a question
about the music that will be rehearsed or at the younger levels
it may be a learning activity setting up for today’s lesson)

Worksheet with note identification and staff labeling.

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B. Learning Activities: (What learning experiences and instruction
will enable students to achieve the desired results – have more
learning activities than you need) 1.

1. Handout worksheets (4 minutes) Set the key while they 2.

work.
2. Select different notes to make an interval on stave (2-5 min)
Have the students sing a random note after hearing middle C
Then while the class sings the note the student sang move up
or down the piano to the note.
Have student’s raise their hands when they believe they’re
matching pitch.
Identify that as the note on piano, and write on the board as
the interval.
3. Singback with piano (2 min)
4. Ask for answers on note names and how many half steps
between the notes (4 min)
5. Singback with piano top and bottom line (2 min)
6. Repeat 2-5 using a different method using a keyboard as an
example to visualize intervals (4 min)
7. Singback (2 min)
8. Repeat 2-5 using a different method by using the key of the
interval to think of the note relations in the key to find the
interval name (4 min)
9. Singback (2 min)
10. Ask students about questions or difficulties they find with
the examples. (4 min)
C. Assessment: (What evidence will show that the students
understand? Describe the assessment used – formal and informal
assessments based on learning objectives)

Students will reflect on what issue they had during this process.
Giving them a new perspective. This will be done verbally in the
last 5 minutes in class.
D. Closing/Wrap-up: (This is a recap of the key learning of the day
to check for understanding. Could be a ticket to leave as individuals or
group answers)

Look to see if the students can connect the question of the day
to the music.
E. Assignment:

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7. Accommodations: (a. Special Needs, b. ELL etc. )
For students that may be hearing impaired, the board written examples will help.
8. Teacher Reflection/Self-Evaluation: (a. Reflect on the process and include
student responses b. Rethink & Revise - what could you have done differently to
improve the outcome of this lesson)

9. National Standards: (Creating, Performing, Responding)

MU:Re7.2.C.Ia Analyze aurally the elements of music (including form) of musical works, relating them to
style, mood, and context, and describe how the analysis provides models for personal growth as
composer, performer, and/or listener.

10. State Standards: (Singing, Reading & Notation, Playing Instruments,

Improvisation & Composition, Critical Response, Purposes & meaning in the arts,
Rose of artists in communities, Concepts of style, stylistic influence & stylistic change,
Inventions technologies & the arts, Interdisciplinary connections)

ARTS.M.02.07 - Identify, define, and use standard notation symbols for pitch, rhythm, dynamics,
tempo, articulation, and expression.

ARTS.M.02.08 - Use standard notation to record their own musical ideas and those of others.