Content and Achievement Standards

Singing alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the
meaning of words and phrases in a text.
Class Goals and Objectives
Students will be able to sing the song independently.
Students will be able to articulate the note values for whole, half,
quarter, and eighth note.
Materials
Were on the Upward Trail
Piano
Projector
Exit tickets
Procedures
Students will listen as the whole song is demonstrated.
Students will then answer one question, in between the song
being demonstrated.
o Have any of you ever gone camping, or on an outdoors
trip? Yes? Where did you go?
Those are great places! This song is singing about
trails in the outdoors. Listen to how many times I say
trail: 4
Teacher will then break down the song into 4 parts.
Teacher will then either do the whole song, or separate into 2
parts first.
Students will sing the whole sing independently of the teacher.
Students will then listen as the teacher teaches note length.
(draw 4 pizzas)
o How many of you like pizza? What do you like on your
pizza?
o Lets look at a pizza.
o Right now Im looking at a whole pizza, right?
o Now what if I cut it into 2 pieces? What did I cut it into?
Halves
o Now how about 4 pieces? Quarters
o How about 8 pieces? Eighths
o Teacher then draws next to each respective pizza, a whole
note, 2 half notes, 4 quarter notes, and 8 eighth notes.
o Just like it only takes one whole pizza to make a pizza, it
only takes one whole note to fill the measure in this song.
o How many halves of the pizza does it take to make a
whole?
o How about the quarters?

o And the eighths?

o Teacher puts song up on projector.
o What measures do you see whole pizzas?
o How about half pizzas?
o Quarter pizzas?
o Eighth pizzas?
Students sing through the whole song again independently.
Students fill out exit slips.
Assessment of Goals and Objectives
Assessment will be done through exit tickets. The exit tickets will have
a matching section, connecting pictures of pizzas, the names of
different notes, and then the definition of each note length. Students
will draw lines to connect them.
Follow Up Lessons
Future lessons will review these note lengths, and then how divide
them up. Farther ahead in the future will focus on subdivision of the
beats.