Diana Schenk

T255 Lesson #1

Oct. 25, 1996

Musical Elements to Teach: Dynamics (Forte and Piano),
Accents

Grade Level: 2

Concept: The students will experience the difference
between loud and soft by listening to a rainstorm on a CD. The
students will also experience for themselves their own rainstorm
with instruments and body movements. Also the students will experience
and perform what an accent is.

Objectives: The student will: Listen to the rainstorm
CD and listen for change from

loud to soft and accents

Create
their own rainstorm by using instruments as well as body movements
(slapping, clapping, rubbing) concentrating on the dynamics of
the motions. Become familiar with piano, forte and accents.

Materials: Rainstorm CD, CD player, instruments (drums,
rhythm sticks, cymbals, tambourines) paper, pencil

Preliminary Procedures: First begin by discussing
how a rainstorm makes you feel and what things you hear or see
during a rainstorm. Then have the students listen to the rainstorm
CD.

Procedures:

1. Begin by turning out the lights and playing the
CD so that the students can focus on


listening to the rainstorm. (approx. 1 – 1 1/2
minutes) During this time have the students


write sown a few things that they notice about the
rainstorm and how the sounds relate to


loud and soft and if there are any accents.

2. Discuss with the students what they heard and
the things that they wrote by relating


forte and piano with the change of loud and soft
with the rainstorm, as well as the accents.

3. I will pass out the instruments to some of the
students and the others will use their body


movements. We will begin playing the instruments
and body sounds imitating the sounds


of a rainstorm. They will use what we discussed about
forte and piano to make music that


resembles a rainstorm.

4. To make sure that the students understand the
difference we will first play what a


rainstorm sounds like in forte and then in piano.
To show a difference we will set a


medium level so that the students have something
to base the changes off of.

5. To give an added activity to the lesson the students
with the drums or one of the other


instruments will play one note to show an accent,
much like a loud clap of thunder or the


sound of lightening crashing.

Evaluation: The teacher will watch to see if the
students play loudly and softly also the accents with a particular
note. The discussion before and after the lesson will help the
teacher to evaluate how much the students know. Also the writing
that the students do while they are listening to the CD will demonstrate
how much of an understanding the students have of the musical
concept of loud and soft.

Follow – up: The teacher will review what the
students experienced with the rainstorm from the CD and the one
that they made up. They will discuss some of the things that they
found to be the same from both of them focusing on forte, piano,
and accents.