5th Grade: Music Heritage

Lesson Title/Grade Level

Music Heritage Project

Instructional Model

Direct Instruction

Standards Addressed
(ELD.PI.11-12.1.Ex) Contribute to class, group, and partner discussions, sustaining conversations
on a variety of age and grade appropriate academic topics by following turn-taking rules, asking
and answering relevant, on-topic questions, affirming others, providing additional, relevant
information, and paraphrasing key ideas.

Objective

Using Flip-grid, students will create a podcast to share their family music heritage, and then
share their project with the class.

Materials List

Student issued Chromebook laptop, access to Flip-grid.

Lesson Rationale

The music heritage project allows for students to share their family heritage and culture, while
giving them a chance to learn from others. My students will create a podcast using Flip-grid and
interview their families. This will give students a chance to learn something new about music
from their heritage. They will then take that information and compare it to the music they
currently listen to. Students will present this project to the class. Sharing student heritage with
each other will highlight differences and similarities in the classroom in a positive way. This will
then build community within the classroom.

Informing the Learner of the Learning Targets & Success Criteria

Tell class, they will create their own podcast to share their music heritage. Let them know that
they will get a chance to learn about the differences and similarities of music around the world.

Stimulating Recall of Prior Learning

 - Remind the class that we learned the teacher’s music heritage background during our
last class. It is now their turn to share their music heritage with the class. Tell students
that we will learn about the differences and similarities of music around the world.

Presenting the New Material

- Tell students to create a podcast using Flip-grid. They will record themselves sharing
their family music heritage and compare it to the music they listen to today.
Directions:
- Give your Podcast a name
- Podcast should be at least 10 minutes in length
- Interview your family first and have them share songs from their heritage
- Play parts of at least 4 songs. Two from your family and two of your own
- Use a clear speaking voice with good diction
- Use this to entice us to listen to new music

- Example: “Let’s hear a little bit of Frank Sinatra’s classic song ‘Fly Me to The Moon’. My
grandfather would sing this to me when I was a baby. Let’s listen...”

Assessing Student Learning and Providing Feedback

The students will complete a pre-assessment which asks them questions about their family
heritage to see how much they know. After they present their project, they will take the same
assessment as a post-assessment to see what new information they learned about their
heritage.

Differentiation for Diverse Learners

FS1: While presenting the new material, students will have time to talk to their partner about
their ideas for the assignment. I will personally walk over to FS1 to have them walk me through
their ideas. This one-on-one conversation is helpful for FS1 because they sometimes miss
directions when I talk to fast in front of the class.

FS2: FS2 will receive have the same help as FS1 but will also be given a printed copy of the
directions for them to check off as they work through the assignment. This student benefits
from a copy of directions which they can cross off as they complete each one.

FS3: FS3 is selectively mute. To help this student, the teacher will answer any of this students’
questions one-on-one so the whole class does not have to listen.