Whitley Bardrof

Free Music Making: Creating a Storm

Objective: Students will be able to create a storm to help understand free
music making.
Grade: Third, fourth, and fifth grade.
National Core Standards:
#1 Generate and conceptualize music ideas and work
#2 Organize and develop musical ideas and work
#5 Develop and refine musical techniques and work for presentation
Process:
1. First ask your students what they think creativity is (new,
individualistic, original, unique).
2. Next pass out papers with little dots on them and ask your students to
draw something using the dots. It should be creative and unique, it can
be anything.
3. Have students pass around their papers so they can see that
everyones is diferent and thats what creativity is.
4. Next explain what free music making is and have students watch a
video of a choir performing their impression of a storm.
5. Split the classroom into two groups and have them create their own
storm using any instruments in the room, traditional or nontraditional.
6. Have groups perform their version of a storm.
Connection: Music, art, and physical education.
Resources: Space, instruments, papers with the dots on them, and the
video of the choir.