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🎵 6th Grade · MusicMU:Pr4.2Unit 1: Music fundamentals

Major scales

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🎯 Objective: Students build major scales with whole and half steps.

Lesson outline

  1. Keyboard diagram.
  2. Build scales.
  3. Play.
  4. Exit: build G major.

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:Pr4.2

National Core Arts Standards — General Music (grade band 6–8)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Read rhythm and pitch notation
  • Understand scales and key signatures

✅ 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 “Music fundamentals”

  1. Rhythm review
  2. Major scales
  3. Key signatures

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