Broderick Lemke

Lesson Plan: Micro Teach #1

Teach a Song
Grade Level: 2nd grade, however with modification of the vocal range it would be accessible to 1st
graders.
Description: Students will learn the song Down by the Bay by hearing the example from the teacher
given aurally several times and through call and response and brief unison.
Objectives: In this lesson students will be taught the basic chorus to Down by the Bay and will be able
to sing it back to the teacher in a call and response style. Students will also be prompted to notice the
rhyming structure and if time is available will produce their own animal-based rhymes. Students will also
be able to switch texture types from call-and-response to singing in unison during the final lines of the
song.
Standards: National Music Standards
- 1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
- 6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.
Materials: Poster with pictures for illustrations of key words in the song to help ESL students and
students who cant read lyrics, and signs with animals/activity combinations.
Prior Knowledge: Children will have experience learning songs, and knowledge about rhymes with
words, possibly tying this into a unit with classroom teachers when they are discussing rhyming. They
will also know about animals, enough so that they can create rhymes. They will also know how to repeat
after a teacher, as well as sing in unison.
Procedures:
1. The teacher will make sure that children know what a bay is before teaching them a song so
they can understand the lyrics.
2. The teacher will sing the song, asking students to follow along on the visual aid, telling them to
listen for any rhyming words.
3. The teacher will ask students where they heard rhyming words, and if needed, prompt them to
listen for rhyming words again as they sing a second time.
4. After making sure students realize there is a rhyme between the words Grow and Go and
the rhymes in the final line, the teacher will invite the students to repeat the lines back.
5. Going line by line the teacher will sing the words to the song and will sing them in response to
the teacher.
6. The teacher will work on any lines that need additional work for the students, making sure to
model them.
7. The teacher will ask students if they know what the next rhyme is based on pictures at the
bottom of the poster.
8. The teacher will then let students pick rhymes for the animals that dont have an action
attached, allowing them to come up with one part of the rhyme, given the constraint of the
animal that the teacher chose.
Assessment/Evaluation: Students will be evaluated on their participation in the class, making sure that
they are singing as part of the group. Their understanding of creating rhymes (as a class, not individually)
will be measured, which will help in future possible composition/arrangement assignments.
What will I do with any extra time? With extra time I could have children sing addition rhymes from the
visual aid, or have the children create their own rhymes to the song and we could incorporate them
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