Through composition of word chains describing plane figures, students will develop skills and understandings in mathematics and music. Teamwork and creativity are necessary to create an interesting word chant that demonstrates understanding and identification of plane figures. Musical skills addressed include improvising, composing, listening, speaking, playing instruments, and moving.
Using rhythmical experiences in music, the students will explore numbers and their relationships. Every aspect of music can be described mathematically. An understanding of patterns, the ability to develop operations, reveal functions, and being able to move toward higher levels of abstractions, can be strengthened through parallel music study. Dividing beats and meters: patterns; and starting the same patterns at different times to create canons: developing operations will be explored in this lesson.
Discover the possibilities of paper sculpture! Allow your imagination to soar as you explore this team-building process that celebrates an intuitive process of art making by generating non-objective sculpture on a large-scale.
The students will use movement phrases to model common fractions and decimal fractions with like denominators. Students will compare the fraction of locomotor and non-locomotor movements in a movement phrase. Students will then create their own movement phrase and use fractions and decimals to describe their performance. Students will recognize that fractions are used in many aspects of our world including the arts.
Through listening to, analyzing, describing, and composing original sound pieces, students will develop skills and understandings in science, mathematics, language arts, and music. Teamwork and creativity are necessary to create a rhythmic composition using cups that demonstrates understanding and identification of various sounds. Musical skills addressed include improvising, composing, listening, and playing.