Instrument Families Canvas

My unit plan is about students being able to identify the instrument families and their sounds. First they will go over the composer, Sergei Prokofiev, who wrote “Peter and the Wolf,” children’s music. As they learn and listen to the song, they will be able to hear the different sounds that each instrument makes, that imitate the animal characters in the story. Finally, as they learn all the sounds of each instrument, they will learn rhythms on the given instrument so they can make their own sounds on the instrument. After the students find the sounds that each instrument makes, they will learn rhythms. They will learn how to improvise on the given instrument so that they can perform. This way, students can experience and learn more about the instruments and the sounds and improvisation. In my canvas, I have short clips on YouTube for them to see “Peter and the Wolf” and few pictures of different instruments. And there are also additional sources containing some of the background readings for the children to read about the composer and about the music.

My Canvas website:

http://www.play.annenberginnovationlab.org/play2.0/challenge.php?idChallenge=2193&mode=view#network6