GIPS TIE Program: Welcome: Notes on the Staff

Technology Integration Experiences
Grand Island, Nebraska

Grand Island Public Schools
Unit Design Standards

Unit Title: Notes on Staff
Subject: Music Theory
Designer: Larry Decker
Introduction: Lines and Spaces
Estimated Amount of Instructional Time: :30

*Stage 1 - Desired Results
Students should be able to place a note head on the correct line or in the correct space by numbering up from the bottom of the staff.

*GIPS Curriculum Standards
Lines and spaces

*Big Ideas (Enduring Understandings)
Recognizing that note heads can be on the line or in the space.

*Essential Questions
Why are some notes on the line and some in the space.

*What Students Should Know
A line note is the next note above a space note.

*What Students Should Be Able to Do
Link to sample of student work: Kidspiration Interactive Activity
Students manipulate note heads to the correct space or line.

*Stage 2 - Assessment Evidence
Assessment Rubric

	Beginning	Developing	Proficient
Correct Placement of Notes	No notes	Some notes	All notes

*Performance Tasks
Draw note heads on lines and spaces on staff paper.

*Stage 3 - Learning Plan
Look at note heads written on lines and spaces of a staff on a white board. Copy the same note heads on staff paper.

*Resources Needed
Computer, white board and staff paper

*Teacher Reflections
Terminology is VERY important when talking about lines and spaces of note heads. When a child is told to write their name on a line, it would actually be in a musical space. It is easily confused if terminology is not consistent. Therefore, notes on a line are refered to as "line notes" and NOT notes on a line. Space notes are not as easily confused because they are normally referred to as being "in the space."