Teaching Academic Skills Through the Exploration of Music
Sloan Edward Williams III
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The Second to fourth grade levels appear to love dinosaurs. They love to sing and learn songs, work on class projects such as drawing pictures, and like to see movies. The goals, strategies and objectives for these grades are as follows:
Strategies, Goals and Objectives
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1. Have class divide up into sub groups to work on film and music projects. For example, have one group be responsible for creating a musical theme or phrase, and have another group draw a picture of the Velociraptor that group one is creating a theme of, and have group three write musical notation of the short song that group one under the picture drawn by group two.
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2. Group discussion is very important, allow some time at the end of each class to talk about the key concept(s) presented for that day.
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3. Rescreening and musical activities will help students organize what they will learn in the following lessons.
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4. Before viewing the film and listening to the music from the film, have students keep a journal with simple vocabulary words, music symbols and a list of their favorite movies and recordings.
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5. Have a trip planned that relates to the film that you have studied i.e. if you use “Jurassic Park “, have the class visit your local Museum.
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6. Plan to have a real paleontologist visit the class or have the class read about one such as Robert Baker or John Ostrom.