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Instructional Plan: The "Why" of Choral Warm-Up Exercises

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The teacher will lead students through a sequence of vocal exercises, highlighting major categories in order to deepen intent on specific skill development. Using your own favorite vocal warm-up exercises, encourage students to consider the benefits and intentions behind each warm-up exercise. Students will engage their creative process in generating new warm-up exercises to share with their peers.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Songwriting in the Secondary Choral Classroom

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This nine-week unit builds music literacy skills and supports connections to outside content. It is intended to co-exist with the secondary choral classroom and strengthen music literacy skills. Students will engage in small groups to collaboratively write a song together. Students will use melodic, harmonic, and aural skills to identify chord progressions, hear and sing melody lines over chord progressions, write  lyrics, and sing together in unison and harmony. Students may also use accompanying instruments during this project.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 6-8 Digital Music Assessment

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Students submit audio or video of themselves performing a certain passage from their ensemble music, a specific exercise from their method book, or a scale/skill/technique. Once the audio/video has been uploaded, the teacher can provide written or spoken feedback. Students have the option to provide a self-assessment to monitor and track practice and progress towards goals.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Creating a Benefit Concert

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Students will investigate ways that choral music can influence the community. Using project-based learning, students will research organizations in their community to be the beneficiary of a benefit-type concert. Students will select level-appropriate repertoire and create advertising. This project is imagined to be used for collaborative small groups, but could be adapted to work as an individual project.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Video: Songwriting in the Secondary Choral Classroom

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In this video, a Virginia music educator shares three coral warm-ups highlighting Standard 13 in the Technique and Application strand of the 2020 Music Standards. These warm-ups provide a foundation of aural skills that can built upon later in the lesson, and throughout the year in songwriting and connections to essential skills necessary for success in music. 

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Learning Integration Strategy: K-2 Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

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Through Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures, students participate in an interactive digital experience to learn instrument families and specific instruments of the orchestra. Using Benjamin Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, students follow a safari theme to find instruments, listen for correct pitches, and classify instruments based on physical characteristics as well as sound.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Learning Integration Strategy: K-2 Student Composer: Digital Composition with Music Notation Software

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With the guidance and collaboration of an educator, students explore music composition using digital music notation software. This digital tool allows students to easily compose with traditional music notation. Students have the ability to drag and drop notes and rhythms on the staff, and can easily make changes to their compositions. Students are able to hear their composition with playback features, and receive immediate feedback on their rhythmic and melodic choices.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Learning Integration Strategy: K-2

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Students can explore new musical genres and cultural traditions with music and movement using Carnegie Hall’s Musical Explorers Map. This interactive map includes audio and visual examples featuring different artists from around the world. Students are able to independently explore historical and cultural aspects of music, or a teacher can utilize the provided lesson plans for a more in-depth unit.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Music News Reporter

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Students use digital research skills to Find Basic Information (F.B.I.) about a composer on websites such as Classic for Kids: Composer Explorer. Students learn about a specific composer, or composers from a specific geographic area, culture, genre, or time period. After gathering information, students write and produce a news program or podcast based on their research.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 “Sampling” in the Music Room

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Students work to create a new original composition using ‘samples'’ or snippets of other students' work. Students create a consent form to collect permission from the original creators of each sample. After choosing which instrument to perform the finished composition on, and practicing, students perform the finished product for the class. A possible extension could be to include opportunities for student collaboration in the form of revisions and edits.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Play a Kadinsky

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Students explore the connection between music and art by listening to a painting created by the artist V. Kandinsky, using Google arts and Culture: Play a Kandinsky. Students use problem solving skills to explore what Kandinsky might have heard when painting “Yellow-Red-Blue” and bring to life his theory on synesthesia and abstract art. Students explore Kandinsky’s theories on color and sound and the relationship between shapes. After exploring the Kandinsky painting, students create their own paintings in the style of Kandinsky, and explain the color and sound relationships that exist in their original work.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

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