Listen With Your Heart featuring Casey Donovan

Explore the song 'Listen With Your Heart'

Student music resource developed by The Arts Unit

Years 7 and 8 music

Welcome to this @The Arts Unit Creative Class.

In this interactive music lesson, your students will meet Australian performing artist Casey Donovan and learn about her inspirations for performing.

Your students will:

• watch and listen to Casey Donovan perform with the NSW Public Schools Combined Secondary Schools Choir and the NSW Public Schools Symphony Orchestra

• compare this performance with a performance of the same arrangement of the song by a different singer at the 2019 Schools Spectacular

• sing along with the choir and Casey by reading the score and learning one of the parts

• listen to an interview with Casey Donovan and reflect on how her childhood and experiences as a teenager influenced her performing career.

Music 7-10 Syllabus

• 4.3: performs music selected for study with appropriate stylistic features demonstrating solo and ensemble awareness.

• 4.7: demonstrates an understanding of musical concepts through the analysis, comparison, and critical discussion of music from different stylistic, social, cultural and historical contexts.

• 4.11: demonstrates an appreciation, tolerance and respect for the aesthetic value of music as an artform.

Collection of student work

• Google Form: create a Google form with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create. Email this form to your students with the Creative Class link and all your student responses will be combined in a Google sheet.

• Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.

• MS Teams: create a quiz or assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create.

• Email: ask your students to email you any responses and files they create.

• Flipgrid: a website that allows teachers to create 'grids' to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is a message board where teachers can pose questions called 'topics'. Students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.

• Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used for class feedback.

For further support on how to create these resources

• Get started with Google Forms

• Create a Google Classroom Assignment

• Assign quizzes to students through Microsoft Teams

• Create an assignment in Microsoft Teams

• Educators – getting started with Flipgrid

• Get started with Jamboard