NORWELL PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Technology-Enhanced Learning Activity Summary

 
Name: Paul L. Weller School: Norwell Middle School
Learning Activity Title: Note Reading and Sight Reading
Grade Level(s): 6, 7, 8 Subject Area: Music
Description of Activity: What is the learning experience? What will teachers and students do during the course of the activity? Through what performances or products will students demonstrate what they know and are able to do?

The learning experience shall be to read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes as well as rests in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 3/8, 9/8, and alla breve meter signatures. Use standard notation to record their musical ideas and those of others. Also, in an instrumental ensemble or class: sight read accurately and expressively, music with a level of difficulty of 3 on a scale of 1 to 6.

 

Technology Standards Addressed: This learning activity will allow students to develop proficiency in the following Norwell Public Schools technology standards:

  1.0 General Computing Skills

Skills and Concepts (see Scope and Sequence)

1.01, 1.03, 1.04, 1.05

Curriculum Standards: Which curriculum frameworks, strands, and learning standards does the activity address?

Standard 2.5, 2.8, 2.9 Pg. 43 of the November 1999 Curriculum Frameworks

Materials & Equipment: What specific software, hardware, websites, handouts, and other printed materials are involved in this activity?  

The programs Encore and Band in a Box are necessary to do this activity.

 

 

 

 

Teacher Tips and Notes: What strategies are recommended regarding logistics, preparation, classroom management, or other implementation concerns?

Teachers need to prep the class in basic notation and basic percussion/instrumental sounds. A presentation projector is needed. To keep the class on task, the melody, rhythm, and harmonization should be played often and varied in its approach. The complete project is easily understood and progress is instantaneously heard.

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