Elementary Music: Grade 3 Carnival of the Animals Day 1 Wed.

March 4th
Lesson 3x’s: 8:25-9:00, 9:00-9:30, 9:30-10:00
Music Room

Stage 1: Desired Results

GLOs: Students will develop:
 musical skills and knowledge.
SLOs: Students will be able to:
LISTENING:
 18. Recognize the instruments of the four families of the orchestra: string,
woodwind, brass, percussion.
Learning Students will:
Objectives  Distinguish (B) the four families of the orchestra (P) through a class discussion (M)
 Identify (B) examples of instruments in the four families of the orchestra (P)
through a class discussion and videos (M)

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence

Formative  Are students engaged Summative N/A
Assessment in the Assessment
discussion/videos?
 FA- thumbs sideways,
and thumbs down: are
students able to name
the four families of
instruments?
 Are students able to
name a few
instruments that fall
into each category?

Stage 3: Learning Experience

Prior to  Create Google Resources  Google Slides Presentation
Lesson: Slides to Bring: with YouTube video: Saint-
Saëns - The Carnival of the
Animals - I. Introduction and
Royal March of the Lion (end
at 34 seconds
 Carnival of the Animals
Book
 Youtube: The Best Drum
Marching Band, Tale as Old
As Time Wedding String
Quartet, Flight of the
Bumblebees
 Trumpet
 Clarinet
Time: Content/Description Notes/Assessments:
Introduction:
Elementary Music: Grade 3 Carnival of the Animals Day 1 Wed. March 4th
Lesson 3x’s: 8:25-9:00, 9:00-9:30, 9:30-10:00
Music Room

 Ask students to sit on the carpet facing the smart-

1 mins board
 Introduce the topic: we will be learning about
instrument families through a story called The
Carnival of Animals
Body: INSTRUMENT FAMILIES
 Walk students through the slides, introducing the four
orchestral families and examples of instruments that
fall into those families
 Talk about the different families of instruments:
 Percussion: anything that you can hit, shake or
scrape: use different examples of instruments in the
room- show short video
 Strings: anything you strum, bow or pluck- show
video of string quartet (some or all)
26  Brass: anything you have to buzz your lips for: show
mins the students how to buzz into a mouth piece and make
a sound in a trumpet and show Flight of the
Bumblebees
 Woodwind: blow air through, usually has a reed:
bring clarinet and play for them
 Introduce the Carnival of the Animals by Camille
Saint-Saens
 Show the students what instruments they will be
hearing in the music of Carnival of the Animals
 Read the opening passage and play the music of the
introduction

Closure: FORMATIVE REVIEW

 Using the thumbs up, sideways, down system, ask
students if they think they know the four orchestral
3 mins families
 Ask individuals to name the four instruments and
instruments that fall into the categories
 Ask students to line up at the door