Standard 1.1

Inquiry Questions:

1. What is the difference between speaking and singing?

2. How does performing songs help you learn?

Relevance and Application:

1. Using music together with dance, theatre, and the visual arts aids in early reading skills such as storytelling and sequencing skills.

2. Music software and audio and/or video devices can be used to demonstrate speaking and singing voices, simple songs, and patterns.

3. Electronic keyboards can be used to echo and perform simple melodic and rhythmic patterns.

Nature of Music:

1. Musicality is the ability to perform and respond to music in meaningful ways.

Standard 1.2

Inquiry Questions:

1. How does different music change the way you feel?

2. How does music help to express the music you hear?

3. Is silence a part of music?

Relevance and Application:

1. Using developmentally appropriate movements to express music demonstrates ability to follow musical elements.

2. Using movement to respond to music aids in long-term memory development.

3. Gross motor skills are refined when responding to music through movement.

4. Audio devices can be used to demonstrate varying types of music and the use of rests within simple songs.

Nature of Music:

1. Expressing music through movement and dance is an important part of all cultures.

Standard 2.1

Inquiry Questions:

1. Why do some melodies sound better than others?

2. How does movement demonstrate what people hear?

3. How does music tell a story?

Relevance and Application:

1. Using software and other technology to demonstrate musical opposites of loud/soft, fast/slow, high/low, sound/silence, and beat/no beat provides an opportunity to give a multitude of global, musical examples.

2. Using developmentally appropriate movement when responding to musical opposites aids in assessing understanding of opposites in language.

3. Explaining where opposites can be found in other disciplines (reading, mathematic symbols +/-, visual art) provides an opportunity for transfer of knowledge, building long-term memory.

4. Explaining why certain sounds can be matched with certain characters (loud and low = Papa Bear, soft/quiet and high = Baby Bear) gives a multisensory opportunity to experience literature or drama.

Nature of Music:

1. Music tells a story.

Standard 2.2

Inquiry Questions:

1. Why is it important to use symbols to identify what is heard?

2. Where else can you find patterns?

3. Why are patterns important in music?

Relevance and Application:

1. Using simple software and other technology tools to create sounds provides a diverse array of auditory examples of sounds heard in society.

2. The ability to identify repeated patterns in simple songs provides a developmentally appropriate foundation to understanding patterns in society.

Nature of Music:

1. Music has many patterns.

Standard 3.1

Inquiry Questions:

1. How do opposites make music more interesting to listen to?

2. What other opposites can be found in other disciplines?

Relevance and Application:

1. Identifying musical opposites in various historical periods, culturalstyles, and genres of music and mass media strengthens one’s ability to comprehend the range of the continuum of musical opposites in specific areas.

2. Demonstrating musical opposites through movement helps to assess one’s understanding of what an opposite is kinesthetically.

3. Demonstrating opposites aurally and kinesthetically builds long-term memory and connections to literary and societal opposites.

Nature of Music:

1. The application of expressive elements enhances musical performance.

2. Specific vocabulary is necessary to describe music.

Standard 3.2

Inquiry Questions:

1. In what ways will a person’s hearing help when listening to a song?

Relevance and Application:

1. Various musical styles (American folk music, marches, lullabies) can be used to provide examples of same and different phrases.

2. The ability to hear same and different phrases is a foundational skill to developing aural discrimination in musical works.

Nature of Music:

1. Most musical compositions have a specific structure.

Standard 3.3

Inquiry Questions:

1. Why do voices and instruments sound different?

2. What are differences and similarities between two sounds?

Relevance and Application:

1. Using music from various cultures, historical periods, genres, and styles to hear male/female voices and varying vocal and instrumental sound provides a global context for the ways music is used.

2. Using examples such as cartoons, computer games, community, and home events to identify male/female voices and varying instrumental sounds provides a connection to the real ways music is used in the community.

Nature of Music:

1. Unique tone qualities are found in varying styles and genres of music.

Standard 3.4

Inquiry Questions:

1. Why is it important to keep a steady beat?

2. How is a steady beat or pulse used in music?

Relevance and Application:

1. Recognizing that patterns occur in music and other subjects is preliminary to pattern identification, pattern matching, and understanding the function of patterns.

2. Identifying similar themes,patterns,andtexturesinstories,songs,andartforms provides practice and exploration in how themes/patterns and textures are used in the world.

Nature of Music:

1. Music notation is a visual representation of organized sound and silence. 2. Patterns occur in music and in the world.

Standard 4.1

Inquiry Questions:

1. What happens when an audience does not use strong listening skills at a performance?

2. Why is it important for listeners to be respectful of one another?

3. Why is music special to some people?

Relevance and Application:

1. Explaining or drawing pictures that show personal preferences to music provides an initial way for articulating how music makes people feel or how they value or appreciate varying styles of music.

2. Discussing what type of music specific storybook characters might like builds an initial ability to give meaning and context to various types of music.

Nature of Music:

1. Musical preferences can be as unique as individuals themselves.

Standard 4.2

Inquiry Questions:

1. Why do people choose certain movements for certain styles of music and not for others?

2. What are some aspects of music that can change the feelings that are communicated and how do they work to make music?

3. How do the basic elements of music communicate thoughts or emotions?

Relevance and Application:

1. Providing a developmentally appropriate opportunity for young learners to respond to music builds a foundational understanding that music promotes a reaction through feeling or preference of sounds.

Nature of Music:

1. Music is an art form and exists to express thoughts and emotions as well as communicate how people perceive the world.

Standard 4.3

Inquiry Questions:

1. How does music that is composed for various purposes contribute to a specific experience?

2. What causes various instruments and voices to sound different from each other?

3. How does movement to music differ from one culture to another?

4. What makes differences in musical style?

Relevance and Application:

1. Providing diverse examples and experiences of the use of music in society builds a beginning understanding of the role music plays in individual experiences, family events, and community events.

Nature of Music:

1. Music has many uses and functions in people’s lives.

2. People describe music in their own words, and the descriptions of others may be different, but equally valid.