Integrating Music into Social Studies
Objectives: Students will be able to:
Curriculum Standards:
Materials:
Building Background Knowledge/Activate Prior Knowledge:
Assessment:
Closing:
- recall information they have learned
- comprehend what they have read
Curriculum Standards:
- Standard 9.1 Production, performance and exhibition of dance, music, theater and visual arts
Materials:
- The Giving Tree KWL Chart
- Tree Facts Book
- Tree Song Print Out
- Crayons
- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Building Background Knowledge/Activate Prior Knowledge:
- I will make a list of information the students have learned from reading the giving tree on the frton board
- I will ask for students to volunteer information they have learned this far about trees
- The students will be presented with the definitions of even and odd numbers
- Guided Practice:
- The students will be presented with the Even and Odd Numbers Worksheet
- We will go over the worksheet as a class then the students will be asked to work with their table groups to complete the worksheet
- After the students have finished we will go over the answers as a class
- The students will be asked to complete the Even and Odd Pattern Worksheet (this worksheet will be completed independently)
- I will walk around to make sure the students are completing the worksheet and not having any trouble
- After the students have completed the task their papers will be collected
Assessment:
- The students will be asked to draw a picture of a tree on a piece of construction paper and add apples to the tree
- They will be able to add as many apples as they choose
- The students will be asked to count the apples and determine whether there are an even or odd number of apples
- The students will be asked to color their pictures and write the number of apples on their tree in a number sentence (ex. My tree has five apples.)
- The pictures will be hung around the classroom
Closing:
- The students will be handed a 3x5 notecard
- They will be asked to write down their names and a odd number on the front of the card and an even number on the back
- The students will put their cards in the center of their table groups