Curriculum Map 

Curriculum Map

McFadden, Amanda / Music 6 / Grade 6

Unit Title Music! Its Role and Importance in Our Lives Content Music from other cultures, music from our culture, music and emotion, music through time. Skills Students will learn about the effects of music through town and around the world.  They will have a broader knowledge of the types of music that exist around them. Resources Music! It's Role and Importance in Our Lives. Instructional Strategies Power point presentations, work sheets group/singular projects. Assessment Students will be assessed through their completed worksheets, the class discussions, and their presentations to the class. Outcomes Students will have a broader, more knowledgeable awareness of the music that surrounds them in their everyday lives.  They will hopefully gain a more worldly view of music and it's effects.
Unit Title Ukulele in the Classroom Content Development of music literacy through playing the ukulele. Skills Single note, chord strumming, singing, ear training, sight-reading, music theory, exploration of the elements of music including melody, harmony, rhythm, form, tempo, dynamics, and tone Resources Ukulele in the Classroom Book 1, by James Hill and J. Chalmers Doane Instructional Strategies Duet, solo, group playing. Learning music by rote and through reading music. Assessment Roaming the classroom to check for proper playing.  Students are asked to play notes individually or explain to a class how notes are played. Outcomes Students will strengthen their ability to play and read music.  They will have experience on an instrument that they probably have not played before.