Lesson Plans

Utah is an amazing place, rich in resources, in geographic wonders, in inspiring history, and in the diversity of its people. The study of Utah permits students to understand more deeply the place they call home, while developing essential skills unique to the social studies disciplines. Within these standards, Utah Studies offers an opportunity for…

Integrating art with literature, reading, social studies, history, music and popular culture.

To familiarize students with Prehistoric art, the reasons for it, the subject matter depicted, style and colors used.

Students will create square designs using area and perimeter knowledge.

Students learn the different lengths for each rhythm and understand the length of each rhythm through their movement.

Create an audio wave model of my name using proper pen and ink technique.

For this lesson, students will work together to make a large scale pendulum to create works of art as a group.

You can use this lesson plan for multiple grades. With the older students we add more dynamics, change tempos, and even add in quite a few auxiliary non-pitched percussion instruments for which they write down the parts. The younger students receive more help reading their notes and we spend more time practicing the fourth movement…

Students will be able to respond to the changes in music and find appropriate movement as individuals, in partners, and in groups of 4.

Second grade students learn to identify animals that adapt to cold weather with music and boomwhackers.