Subject/Grade: Grade 7 Lesson/Date: Rumble Ball - Sept 8, 2022 Time: 20 minutes

Stage 1: Desired Results

Lesson In this lesson students will be performing music through percussion instruments and body
Overview: percussion. Students have to watch the movement of a ball being thrown in the air and respond
through their instruments. The tempo and volume changes over the pace of the ball's reaction.
This game helps students use their ears and practice responding.
GOs: Students will:
● To recognize, interpret and perform rhythm, melody, harmony, form and expression as
they appear in musical notation. (Performing, 1)
● Continue to develop their creative abilities and to use them in a constructive manner to
contribute to society and to personal satisfaction (Attitudes, 6)
● To grow in the appreciation, understanding and enjoyment of music as a source of
personal fulfillment. (Valuing)
SOs: Students will:
● Recognize and interpret: note values and rests of the following durations: (Dur II, 1a,c)
○ Sixteenth note and eighth note triplet (a)
○ anacrusis (pick-up), caesura, legato, staccato addagio, presto, ritardando rhythm
patterns of: (c)
● Recognize and perform: (Articulation II, 1 - 4)
○ Legato (1)
○ Staccato (2)
○ Accents (3)
Learning Students will:
Objectives ● Identify (B) rhythm patterns (P) by watching and responding to the ball hit the ground
(M).
● Create (B) musical expressions (P) through performing percussion instruments based
on the force of a ball (M).

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence

Formative ● Hallway etiquette Summative N/A
Assessment ● How the ball affects music Assessment
performance.
● How to lead a group.

Stage 3: Learning Experience

Prior to First day of school, students will not Resources:
Lesson: have any concepts to review.
Time: Content/Description Differentiation/
Assessments:
Introduction:
5 Review of Previous Concepts/New Learning: FA:
minutes Review concepts of hallway etiquette. Before sharing the rules of walking in the ● Use
hallway explain that other classes are functioning while we are transitioning to guided
another class. question
s for
● What is different from this school to others? The classroom walls are students
more open. When we make noise in the hallway it is much easier for the to reflect
other class to hear us. → how would you feel if you were trying to focus as to
and a group of students were making a ton of noise in the hallway? why we
● We do not talk and run in the hallway. Do we walk ahead of Ms. do not
Subject/Grade: Grade 7 Lesson/Date: Rumble Ball - Sept 8, 2022 Time: 20 minutes
Smallwood? Do we take up the whole hallway? Let's stay on the right run or
hand side of the hallway. talk in
○ How many of us have been in a car? Do we usually pick the side the
of the road we want to drive on → today I’ll drive on the left side of hallway.
the road. What would happen if we did that?
○ How about speed. What do we have to make sure everyone
follows the same speed? What would happen if we didn’t have
speed limits? → so we only walk in the hallway.
Transition: Students walk to the classroom together with all their items. Once we enter the classroom,
students assemble in a circle. Once the circle is assembled, hand out the bottle instruments.
Body:
3 mins Learning Activity 1: Rules of Rumble Ball FA: Students
will practice
The ball is a guide for the duration and articulation. The teacher will throw, roll reacting to fast
or pass the ball and students will use their percussion instruments to react to the and slow
ball. When the ball hits the ground students will play their instruments. This patterns through
looks different for every group but this is a practice for improvisation and instruments.
creativity. Students will
● What does it sound like when the ball is thrown fast or slow? build a sense of
● What does the ball sound like when I roll it? community
● What does the ball sound like when I pass it from one hand to the next? through this
rhythm game.
Transition: The teacher will ask students who want to be the ball director to raise their hands. The
teacher will select students to play this role while using the students' rumble ball instrument.
5 mins Learning Activity 2: Their turn! FA: Students
will have the
Students will take turns being the ball director. Each student only has one move opportunity to
at a time to ensure everyone who wants to play has a chance. Before the first practice
student starts, remind students to remain respectful while playing. If too many following a
people are being disruptive the teacher will take the students who are distracting leader which
instruments away. will be
translated into
following
conducting
patterns in
band.
Consolidation:
2 mins Review of Key Concepts/Point to Next Class: FA: Review the
● Guided Questions on Rumble Ball: concepts of the
○ What does it sound like when the ball has been thrown with more ball and how it
force? affects sounds.
○ What does it sound like when the ball has been thrown with less In addition to
force? hallway
● Guided Questions on hallway etiquette: etiquette.
○ How do we act in the hallway? Name one thing we talked about?
Stage 4: Reflection
1. How the students responded to the lesson as planned and taught:
2. Specific strengths of the lesson plan and delivery:
3. Specific weaknesses in the lesson plan and delivery:
4. What must be addressed to improve this plan?
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5. How I have grown from this teaching experience: