Web Scavenger Hunt
Subject Matter: Music
Grade Level: 9-12
Lesson Objective: Learners will
demonstrate knowledge of/understanding of/ability to: read music on the treble
and bass clef and label the notes on a staff.
Common Core State
Standard and/or Academic Content Standard: Type out one specific CCSS and/or one academic
content standard met with this lesson. (http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/index.asp).
MUSIC CONTENT STANDARD:
1.0 ARTISTIC PERCEPTION
- Processing, Analyzing, and
Responding to Sensory Information Through the Language and Skills Unique
to Music
- Students read, notate,
listen to, analyze, and describe music and other aural information, using
the terminology of music.
- Read and Notate Music
- 1.1 Read an instrumental or vocal score of
up to four staves and explain how the elements of music are used.
- 1.2 Transcribe simple
songs when presented aurally into melodic and rhythmic notation (level of
difficulty: 1 on a scale of 1-6).
- 1.3 Sight-read music
accurately and expressively (level of difficulty: 3 on a scale of 1-6).
Technology
Standard: NETS for Students: Type out one specific student technology standard met with this lesson. (http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForStudents/NETS_for_Students.htm)
Standard 2: Research
and Information Fluency
- Locate, analyze, evaluate,
synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and
media.
- Process data and report
results
Website Addresses
Used as Resources: Use the following links as tools to complete the questionnaire below.
- https://www.musictheory.net/lessons/10
- http://www.musictechteacher.com/music_quizzes/quiz_missing_note1.htm
- https://practicesightreading.com
- http://www.biblestudy.org/free-music/amazing-grace.gif
Student Research
Questions:
Essential Question:
1. What is the difference
between the treble clef and the bass cleff?
Subsidiary Questions (6-10):
2. Which vocal parts
are more suited for the treble clef?
3. What happens when
a note is higher or lower than the five lines on a staff?
4. There are many
other different clefs we use in music.
Why do you think there are so many?
5. Is there a vocal
part that can use both clefs? Why is
that?
6. Look at the
four-part hymn Amazing Grace. What note
is each vocal part on in the last chord?
7. In Amazing Grace,
why do you think there are two stems on the word “but” in measure 9?
8. Why is the treble
clef called a “g clef” and a bass clef called an “f clef?”
9. Where is middle C and why is it given that name?
10. Why would the
grand staff be important? Can you think
of any instruments that would use a grand staff?