Megan Wendlick
Technology Lesson Plan – 1st Grade General Music
1. Time Needed: 20 minutes
2. Materials Needed: SmartBoard, sheet music
3. Learning Objective: Students will learn how compose rhythm patterns with quarter notes
and eighth notes through a SmartBoard activity.
4. Assessment: Students will compose rhythm patterns with quarter notes and eighth notes
through a SmartBoard activity.
5. Personal Objectives:
Be positive and encouraging.
Make sure all students are engaged.
6. Procedure:
Greet students with “hello” song.
Review how to clap quarter note and eighth note rhythms. Have quarter note and
eighth note rhythm patterns projected on the SmartBoard, and count and clap
them as a class.
Call on individual student volunteers to read, count, and clap a rhythm pattern on
the board to the class.
Project the document on the SmartBoard with a music staff, and images of eighth
and quarter notes at the bottom.
“I am going to compose my own rhythm pattern”. Drag quarter notes and eighth
notes into the staff, then count the rhythm as a class.
Have student volunteers come up to the SmartBoard to drag the notes onto the
staff to compose their own rhythm patterns. Count their rhythm patterns together
as a class.
7. Closure: Hand out staff paper to each student. “Great job composing your very own
rhythm patterns! I want you to go home and create a few of your own rhythm patterns
and bring it with you to our next class.”