Listening

Music Lesson Plan

 
Title:  The Dance of a Plant                       Grade Level:  Kindergarten    
Source: https://unitedarts.org/lesson_plan/the-dance-of-a-plant/

Materials needed:
Music to fit growth and development of a plant
Music player of sorts
Video - The Needs of a Plant (song for kids about 5 things plants need to
live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUBIQ1fTRzI  
Pictures of what plants need to grow
 Water
 Soil
 Space
 Light (sun)
 Air

Procedure:
 
A.S: Hi friends I’m Miss Lauren and I’m Miss Victoria.
I hear that you guys have been learning about plants. Can you tell me what
you have been learning about them recently?
 
1. Have students sit in a circle
2. Today we will be learning what a seed needs in order to grow
3. Ask students if they know what a seed needs in order to grow
4. Take answers from students 
5. Today we will be playing a song and students will have to use their
listening ears in order to see what a seed needs in order to grow
6. Play song for students
7. Ask students again if they noticed anything that they missed that
plants need to grow
8. Now that we went over what plants need in order to grow, we will
now be showing you guys’ pictures of the items that we listed
9. Show students pictures of what is needed for a plant to grow
10. Break students into groups for each
a. Water
b. Soil
 c. Space
d. Light (Sun)
e. Air
11. Have students decide on a movement to represent their natural
element
12. We will go over the movements that the groups decide
13. Each group will demonstrate their movement 
14. Play the song a second time and each group will act out their
movement at the appropriate time
15. Start the song and narrate it as the students act out the process with
the song playing
16. Act out how a plant starts as a seed and how the elements help it to
grow
17. After the song ends…
18. “Now let's try to do ALL the movements that show how a seed grows
into a beautiful plant”
19. Go over all the movements once again for all the elements needed for
a seed to grow into a plant
20. Practice once without the music
21. “Did we notice a pattern with what order the elements that we need
for a seed to grow are in?”
22. Get answers from students
23. Play the song once again and narrate it once again having the students
do all the movements for the elements

Closure:
24. Have the students sit back in a circle
25. Discuss what they learned about what seeds need to grow
 
Educational Objective:  By the end of this lesson, students will have
learned . . . to listen to a song to understand what a seed requires to grow
into a plant
 
 

 
 Social/ Cognitive Physical Musical Non-Musical Subjects
Emotional

 Group work to  Thinking about  Moving/ National Standards “Core” Music Standards Content Standards
come up with a what movement Dancing with the
they want to song Creating K-LS1-1
movement for your choose for their Imagine
element 1. Singing Use observations to
element
Plan and Make describe patterns of
Socializing with what plants and
peers Evaluate & Refine animals (including
2. Play Instruments humans) need to
Present survive)
Performing
3. Improvising Select

Analyze

Interpret
4. Composing
Rehearse,
Evaluate, & Refine

5. Reading & Notating Present

Responding
Select

6. Listening Analyze

Interpret

7. Evaluating Evaluate

Connecting

Anchor Standard 10:

8. Integration Enduring Understanding:
(outside arts) MU:Cn10.1Ka

9. History/Culture