Listening

Music Lesson Plan

Title: The Clock Symphony Grade Level:  2 -3 nd rd

Source: McConkey

Materials needed: A clock. Orchestra Music.

Procedure:
A.S:  I have a clock, what time does it say? Ask kids what times are and set the clock to
different times

1. Listen to music, and have kids touch their nose when they hear the clock.
2. Clarify what you are listening for is something that sounds like a clock. (Tick Tock
pattern)
3. “We are going to be clocks today” Ask kids about beauty and the beast and to think
of cogsworth. “He can’t bend his knees so don’t bend your knees and move your
body to the tick tocks.
4. Play the music again and hit the wooden instrument to the tick tocks. Have kids
listen for when clock stops.
5. Introduce what the instrument is that acts as the clock as the Cello. Then introduce
the violin part that sounds like a mouse.
6. Have kids then pretend to be a little mouse to the song “Hickory dickory dock”.
7. Have kids partner up. One is the clock and the other is the mouse. 
8. Play the instrument again and the mouse goes around the clock to the song hickory
dickory dock. 
9. Put it all together to the music. “Mice” Scurry around the clock to the original
orchestra music piece. 
10.  Pull the clock out and stop it after the music, then kids would tell you the time.

Closure:  “What time does the clock say?” Stick to the single number o clock and
the thirty minute mark for the grade levels. 
Educational Objective:  By the end of this lesson, students will have learned . . .
About clocks, time telling and how instruments can be portrayed through objects.
Social/Emotional Cognitive Physical Musical Other
Subjects
Moving together Thinking of our Nodding National Content
Laughing body parts and Wiggling  Standards Standards
what they do
1. Singing
Moving to
Thinking of music and 2. Play
what a musical body Instruments
beat is awareness
3. Improvising
Thinking of
where body 4. Composing
parts are
5. Reading &
Notating

6. Listening

7. Evaluating

8. Integration
(outside arts)

9.
History/Culture