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Western Music

ICT for meaningful learning

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Target Students: Secondary 1 (Express/Normal Academic)

Learning Environment: Music Laboratory

Pre-Requisites: Students are able to read music notation (solfège).

Students know how to use SFS kids website.

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To allow students to develop a sense of hearing, singing and performing skills

To expose students to A Cappella singing

Goal

+Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

Apply 100% of their knowledge of music notation by reading the musical excerpts from SFS kids’ instrumentation page. (website)

Sing accurately from the musical excerpts on their own

Collaborate in groups of 3 and perform a cappella with 70% accuracy in groups

+Features of the website (Live demo)

Audio examples of each part

Fully notated musical excerpts

The ability to listen to individual parts by muting other parts

The ability to listen to all parts simultaneously

The ability to listen to different parts being played by different instrument

+Worksheet

Complete worksheet by copying any of the musical excerpts and

name each note.C G A B C D D E F E

+Singing warm ups

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Activity!

Students are:

- Grouped into groups of 3

- Each member select a part to sing

- Collaborate all three parts and perform in front of the class

+ Dimensions of Meaningful Learning…

Self-Directed Learning Students learn how to sing in pitch from the audio samples in the website by reading and listening from the website on their own.

Engaging Prior Knowledge

Prior knowledge on musical notation is engaged in this lesson as students need to apply their notation reading skill in order to know the notes.

Learning by Doing Students will be able to relate their knowledge on unaccompanied singing to the a cappella performances around them.

Real-world Context Students will be able to sing by listening to the examples. Hence they learn how to sing by listening.

Collaborative Learning Students will be assigned into groups of 3. They will learn how to sing their parts unaccompanied together through collaborating with their classmates.

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