1. I. Overview of the Lesson
1. 18 March 2014
2. 40 minutes
3. Ms. Sarah Ponessa
4. Kindergarten, Music, Introduction to Rhythm
II. Big Idea: A rhythm is a steady beat that can be fast and slow at the same time.
III. Essential Question: What do we call it when a beat is slow and fast at the same time?
IV. Pennsylvania State Standards/Eligible Content: 9.1.8.A: Students will know and use
elements and principles of duration, intensity, pitch and timbre, composition, form, genre,
harmony, rhythms and texture.
V. General Objectives:
1. Students will learn the difference between a steady beat and a rhythm.
2. Students will understand that there is a rhythm within a steady beat.
3. Students will be able to tap a basic rhythm.
VI. Behavioral Objectives:After reviewing their normal daily activities, students will tap
decipher whether the teacher (Ms. Ponessa) is tapping a slow or fast steady beat. The students
will tap a steady beat while the teacher (Mrs. Rhode) taps a rhythm within their beat. The
students will learn to tap the rhythm in BINGO.
VII. Instructional Materials:
1. iPod with BINGO
2. Rhythm sticks for students
3. Smiley faces for points
VIII. Vocabulary
1. Rhythm
IX. Instructional Procedure:
1. Daily Questions
• Day, Month, Date, Year
2. Go over Patriotic
• What is the Patriotic for this month?
• Sing Yankee Doodle
• Sing and do motions for Yankee Doodle
3. Steady Beat
• Can a steady beat be slow? Can a steady beat be fast? Can a steady beat be slow
and fast at the same time?
• Tap examples of a slow steady beat and then a fast steady beat.
• What is it called when we have a beat that is fast and slow at the same time?
4. Introduce Rhythm
• Rhythm can be fast and slow at the same time.
• Play BINGO - tap BI then NGO. Notice the difference the groupings.
• Are BI and NGO at the same tapped at the same steady beat?
• BI is a little slower than NGO. (long-long then short-short-short)

2. • When the steady beat changes in the middle of a song, like BINGO, it is called a
rhythm.
• Rhythm and steady beat are different. Every song has a steady beat, but the rhythm
can change within that beat.
• Tap a steady beat, have them join in. Have Mrs. Rhode clap BINGO within that steady
beat to show the difference.
• Replay BINGO and have them tap BI and NGO with me.
5. Review
• What is it called when a beat is fast and slow at the same time?
X. Assessment:
1. Formative
a. The teacher will watch the students and observe their participation and
understand of the concept.
2. Summative
a. none
XII. Cognitive Complexity of the Lesson: This lesson plan involved the introduction of rhythm
and the differentiation between rhythm and a steady beat. I believe this lesson falls in the
conceptual knowledge-apply (B3) cell of the Anderson-Krathwohl taxonomy.