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🎵 1st Grade · MusicMU:Re7.2Unit 3: Instruments & timbre

Instrument families

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🎯 Objective: Students identify strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion.

Lesson outline

  1. Listen.
  2. Sort pictures.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: one family.

Lesson 2 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

MU:Re7.2

National Core Arts Standards — General Music (grade band K–2)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Identify classroom and orchestral instruments by sound

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

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More lessons in “Instruments & timbre”

  1. Classroom instruments
  2. Instrument families
  3. Loud and soft

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