| Over the past several years, I have created three different thematic units for music that I teach 4th - 6th graders: Musical Genres, Hits Through the Ages, and Musical Legends. Each unit is a year in length, at a pace of one lesson per week. Each lesson requires between 35 - 60 minutes depending on how you pace them. All lessons include a graphic organizer for students to take detailed notes, wall art for your classroom, and were designed to engage students through the use of multimedia, built in participation, and interesting content. They were created in Apple's Keynote, which is the format you should download them if it is available to you. If Keynote is not an option, I have a PowerPoint conversion that can be downloaded instead, however these may need to be reformatted to work properly on the screen you use. For detailed information about each unit, please download the included lesson plan at the bottom of each column. Please feel free to use and modify these lessons in any way you see fit. |
