Introductory Lesson Plans
Lesson Plan 1: Activating Schema, gallery walk
Lesson Plan 2: Activating Schema, KWL
Lesson Plan 3: Activating Schema, continuum
(Introductory lessons to be enlarged onto an overhead or chart paper, see lesson examples below, as well as "Instructional Design and Strategies" re: presentation and context.)
[Lesson 4: 5 senses (music and architecture materials)
Lesson 5: Chants and Poems
Lesson 6: Field trip to Yale (counting colors in stained glass windows, counting sides, corners, shapes of and in buildings, visiting Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments, 15 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06511.
Lesson 7: Musical counting and story problems (i.e. Count number of cymbal crashes in 1812 Overture and write a story problem with architectural examples from the same time period.)
Lesson 8: Making and measuring musical instruments
Lesson 9: Group projects (collages of architecture, music, with number and shape emphases)
Lesson 10+: Design and create raised lasagna garden bed and plant seeds.], etc.
Gallery Walk
(image)
"I observe…" (picture of magnifying glass)
"I wonder…" (picture of question mark above child's head)
"I predict…" (picture of crystal ball)
Continuums
*Architecture
I don't know anything about this./ ? | I'm an expert at this./ :)
*Music
I don't know anything about this./ ? | I'm an expert at this./ :)
*Math
I don't know anything about this./ ? | I'm an expert at this./ :)
K.W.L.
What we KNOW | What we WANT to know | What we have LEARNED
Assessment
Individual behavioral rubric (incl. work habits)
(table available in print form)
Group work, team tasks rubric
(table available in print form)