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🎵 1st Grade · MusicMU:Cr1.1Unit 4: Making music

Question and answer

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🎯 Objective: Students improvise rhythmic answers.

Lesson outline

  1. Model.
  2. Echo then answer.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: create an answer.

Lesson 1 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:Cr1.1

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Improvise and create simple patterns

✅ 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”.

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