Grade 4 Lesson 3

Objectives/Understanding Statements
• Students will perform “Duo” with rhythm and pitch accuracy.
• Students will improvise and echo a four beat rhythm on a single pitch.
• Students will improvise and echo a four beat melody.

Standards
Virginia Standards of Learning
4.3 The student will play a variety of pitched and non pitched instruments alone and with
others, including
1. playing music of increasing difficulty in two-part ensembles;
2. playing melodies of increasing difficulty written on the treble staff;
3. playing a given melody on a recorder or other similar instrument
EI.1 The student will echo, read, and notate music, including
1. identifying, defining, and using basic standard notation for pitch, rhythm,
meter, articulation, dynamics, and other elements of music
EI.2 The student will echo, read, and perform simple rhythms and rhythmic patterns,
including whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, dotted eighth notes, dotted
quarter notes, and corresponding rests.

Procedure
• Warm up
• Echo note patterns
• Ask for student volunteers
• Practice “Duo”
• Run as a class
• Split in half, switch parts
• Earn “Duo” string
• Play by riser
• Teacher plays top line, students play bottom
• Teacher plays bottom line, students play top
• Improvisation exploration
• Stand up in a circle
• Echo rhythm patterns on one note
• Give each student the opportunity to make a 4 beat rhythm
• Keep steady beat with online metronome or claves
• Echo melodic patterns
• Give each student the opportunity to make a 4 beat melodic pattern
• Play background track and improvise in
• groups
• pairs
• solo
Assessment
• Teacher will assess students’ abilities to demonstrate “Duo” with rhythm and pitch accuracy by
watching and listening to groups of students play by riser.
• Teacher will assess students’ abilities to improvise and echo a four beat rhythm on a single
pitch by
• Teacher will assess students’ abilities to improvise and echo a four beat melody by

Materials
• Recorders
• Method book

Adaptations
• Size: Music notes available in small print (book) and large print (Smart Board)
• Color: Different notes are labeled with different colors
• Pacing:
• Modality: Notes labeled on the board (visual), playing the recorder/moving fingers to different
notes (kinesthetic), listening to teacher and other students play as examples (auditory)

Extensions
This lesson could be extended by writing down the students’ improvisations and creating a
notated composition.