As I've been teaching in a new district I have the opportunity to use an iPad and Apple TV for instruction. After I took my graduate level ethnomusicology course I decided that I need to expose my students to different genres of music and music from different timelines. Even with the National Music Standards I know we all struggle with making listening a core part of our instruction. With that being said my "bell ringer" activity begins with a brief discussion of a piece I'm going to have them listen to and laid the foundation for things to listen and watch for in the video.
After watching the video I have a Google Form created for a listening journal. Since these students are in 5th grade I'm making more of a worksheet with questions regarding the music like "Is it vocal or instrumental? Who wrote it? What is a conductor? Composer? Did you like it or not? Why?" These answers may range from a multiple choice answer to a two sentence response. I want to integrate good reading and writing strategies into my classes so that students may get literacy practice without having to know they are getting this practice.
To create this form I access Google Drive, hover over Create, and go down to form. From there I can create a form from a template and go for it. From there I go to the tool bar and click view live form. This will show you the screen the students view. From there I create a QR code that our students can scan with an app called Qrafter. To get that code, I did an online search and found a QR generator. I would copy the URL from the live form and put that into the generator. From there I have a picture (QR Code) that I can print off or project on a screen/board.
Students know to access this through their Google Emails and when they are finished they may submit responses. These responses are sent to the owner of the form and I can separate by class into different Google Sheets. It's great! My students ask if we're doing the activity or not today!
Activities done so far - Radioactive Cover by Pentatonix, Sleep by Eric Whitacre (Virtual Choir 2), and The Star-Spangled Banner performed by the US Armed Forces Academy from the Superbowl. This is an activity that I'm excited to do and thoroughly enjoy getting my students exposed to different types of music that they probably wouldn't go out and listen to on their own.
After watching the video I have a Google Form created for a listening journal. Since these students are in 5th grade I'm making more of a worksheet with questions regarding the music like "Is it vocal or instrumental? Who wrote it? What is a conductor? Composer? Did you like it or not? Why?" These answers may range from a multiple choice answer to a two sentence response. I want to integrate good reading and writing strategies into my classes so that students may get literacy practice without having to know they are getting this practice.
To create this form I access Google Drive, hover over Create, and go down to form. From there I can create a form from a template and go for it. From there I go to the tool bar and click view live form. This will show you the screen the students view. From there I create a QR code that our students can scan with an app called Qrafter. To get that code, I did an online search and found a QR generator. I would copy the URL from the live form and put that into the generator. From there I have a picture (QR Code) that I can print off or project on a screen/board.
Students know to access this through their Google Emails and when they are finished they may submit responses. These responses are sent to the owner of the form and I can separate by class into different Google Sheets. It's great! My students ask if we're doing the activity or not today!
Activities done so far - Radioactive Cover by Pentatonix, Sleep by Eric Whitacre (Virtual Choir 2), and The Star-Spangled Banner performed by the US Armed Forces Academy from the Superbowl. This is an activity that I'm excited to do and thoroughly enjoy getting my students exposed to different types of music that they probably wouldn't go out and listen to on their own.
