Lesson Plan No.

Date of Lesson 11/4/2021

Teacher Erik Alvarado
School Charnock Road Elementary
Grade Level TK/K
Content Area General Music
Topic Movie Music
National Music CREATING: Imagine - Generate musical ideas for various purposes and contexts.
Standards MU:Cr1.1.Ka With guidance, explore and experience music concepts (such as beat and
melodic contour).
MU:Cr1.1.Kb With guidance, generate musical ideas (such as movements or motives).
California Arts CREATING: AS1: Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work
Standards for K.MU:Cr1a. With guidance, explore and experience music concepts (such as beat and
Music melodic contour).
K.MU:Cr1b. With guidance, generate musical ideas (such as movements or motives).
English Language Part I: Interacting in Meaningful Ways. A. Collaborative. 1. Exchanging information and
Development ideas with others through oral collaborative discussions on a range of social and academic
Standards topics.
Learning By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
objectives 1. Acknowledge how music adds emotion to movies.
2. Identify the emotions conveyed in movies from their soundtracks.
3. Create their own sounds to a movie scene.
Instructional 1. Projector
Resources/ 2. Laptop
Materials 3. Speaker
4. Movie Clips:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JCclvtATZmrL7kLg1RPqTgeAnvuHtn9j?
usp=sharing
5. Balloons
6. Fabrics
7. Shakers
Instructional 1. Good morning song.
strategies (what 2. Play the “The circle of life” scene without and with music.
teacher does) 3. Play the “Let it go” scene without and with music.
4. Pass out balloons and play the movie clip from “Up”, have students fly their
balloons around when they hear the uplifting music.
5. Discuss the emotions of the soundtrack.
6. Collect balloons with help from classmates or aids.
7. Pass out fabrics and play the movie clip from “Ratatouille”, have students scatter
with their fabrics when they hear the intense music.
8. Discuss the emotions of the soundtrack.
9. Play the movie scene from “Toy Story”, have students cradle their fabric when
they hear sad music.
10. Discuss emotions of the soundtrack.
11. Collect Fabrics with help from classmates or aids.
 12. Pass out shaker eggs and play the movie scene from “Big Hero 6”, have the
students shake their eggs during the exciting parts and sease shaking on the calm
parts.
13. Play the movie scene from “Trolls”, have students shake their eggs to the happy
mood of the soundtrack.
14. Goodbye song
Learning Tasks 1. Listen to versions of movie clips that do and don’t have a soundtrack.
(what students do) 2. Acknowledge how music makes a movie more exciting.
3. Listen and watch movie scenes and imitate the action/ emotion conveyed through
movement.
4. Add additional sounds to movie scenes that fit with the mood of the scenes.
Assessment of 1. Ask students what emotions they saw and heard from each movie scene and
Learning assess that they are correct.
2. Have students add sounds that fit the mood of movie scenes and assess that they
portray the correct emotion.
Adaptations/ 1. Only one item of the balloon, fabric, or shaker to be distributed at one time to
accommodations avoid overstimulation.
for students with 2. Demonstrate emotions of the movie clips through movement to guide students as
specific learning to what is being portrayed.
needs 3. Use of multiple items throughout the lesson to retain engagement.
Post-observation After my lesson I realized that I had overplanned for the amount of time we had. While
Reflections (after the activities planned worked well with keeping engagement, I felt as if they went by too
reviewing video): quickly for the students to really absorb what was being taught. I would change this lesson
What are the plan to focus on three activities, one of the listening/ watching examples with and without
lessons learned? music, and the other two focusing on how music contributes to the mood of the film. I
What changes, if would replay the activities portraying mood to allow the students more time to connect to
any, will you make what they are hearing.
to the next lesson?