Free Musical Instruments And Their Families Lesson Plan for 1st Grade Students

Topic: Musical Instruments and their Families

Objectives & Outcomes

• Students will be able to identify different types of musical instruments and the families they belong to (e.g. string instruments, percussion instruments, wind instruments).
• Students will be able to create a collage using cut-out images of musical instruments to show their understanding of the different families.

Materials

• Printout of Carnival of the Animals by Saint Saens
• Various cut-out images of musical instruments (e.g. violin, drum, trumpet)
• Scissors
• Glue
• Large piece of paper or poster board

Warm-up

• Show the students a picture of a musical instrument and ask them to guess what it is and what family it belongs to.
• Continue with a few more pictures, encouraging the students to explain their reasoning.

Direct Instruction

• Introduce the concept of the orchestra and the different families of musical instruments.
• Show the students a picture of each member of the orchestra and identify the family to which it belongs.
• Ask the students to repeat the names of the families and their members after you.

Guided Practice

• Play the music of Carnival of the Animals and ask the students to identify the instrument that is being played.
• Have them identify the family to which the instrument belongs.
• Encourage the students to make predictions about the families and instruments that they will hear in the rest of the music.

Independent Practice

• Have the students draw a picture of their favorite instrument and write a short paragraph about it.
• Have them use their pictures and paragraphs to create a class book about the orchestra, musical instruments and their families.
• Have the students present their class book to the class.

Closure

• Review the different types of instruments and their families.
• Ask the students to share one thing they learned about the orchestra, musical instruments and their families.

Assessment

• Observe the students during the independent practice and make sure they are able to identify the different types of instruments and their families.
• Have the students fill out a questionnaire or give a short oral report about the orchestra, musical instruments and their families.