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🎵 4th Grade · MusicMU:Re7.2Unit 4: Listening & music history

Orchestra

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🎯 Objective: Students identify orchestral instruments by sight and sound.

Lesson outline

  1. Listening map.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Quiz.
  4. Exit: name an instrument.

Lesson 1 of 4 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 3–5)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe music with musical terms
  • Connect music to history and culture

✅ 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 “Listening & music history”

  1. Orchestra
  2. Form: ABA and rondo
  3. American music
  4. Music of the world

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