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Title - Bubble Gum Band
By - Diane Hamilton
Primary Subject - Music
Grade Level - 4-6
Objective: Learn to play quarter note and quarter rest patterns. Create an accompaniment of quarter note bubble gum pops to pre-recorded music
Materials: Pre-recorded music with a steady beat or rhythm button on electronic piano, one piece of bubble gum per student. 4 chairs
Procedure:
1. Define "steady beat" as a feeling similar to heartbeat. (Students feel their heartbeat.)
2. Give students a piece of bubble gum. Instruct them to keep their wrapper to put the gum in so that you can check to make sure it is thrown away as they exit class. Ask students to "chew" to the beat of music.
3. Set up 4 chairs in front of students. Ask students to chomp each time you touch the back of the chair. Define the chairs as the "beat" and the chomps as a "feeling" of the beat inside.
4. Ask one student to sit in any of the four chairs.
5. Ask students to feel the beat of the empty chairs, but blow a bubble and pop it on the chair that has a student sitting in it when the chair is touched. Define the pop as a quarter note (draw on board) and the empty chairs as rests (draw on board).
6. Ask the student to move to a different chair and repeat the procedure until all chairs have been sat in.
7. Draw a rhythm pattern with one quarter note and three rests on any of 4 beats on the board and ask a student to play it with a bubble gum pop.
8. Draw 3 patterns in 4/4 time using one quarter note and three rests and number them 1, 2, and 3.. Ask a student to play one of the patterns and ask the other students to echo the pattern. Then ask the students to put up their fingers to show the number of the example that was played.
9. Put on the music and ask students to pop their bubble gum only on the beat of the music.
10. Ask the students to put their gum in the wrappers and put it in the trash can, (make sure the trash can has a liner so the custodians won't be on your bad side and no swallowing allowed).
This is GREAT fun and the kids feel like they are getting to break school rules in an educational way.
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