Rock and Roll Lesson Plans

This lesson has students complete an Individual Artist Information Sheet on famous 1950's Rock and Roll musician. They read one of the chapeters on "Elvis Pressley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Rockabilly, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Everly Brothers, or Buddly Holly" from The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, and make a list of 15 facts that they found out from the chapter.

Students examine influence The Blues had on Rock and Roll and the concomitant social, political, and economic factors and movements during the post-World War II period. Students then research and create multimedia reports on teacher-approved bands, including timelines of bands' careers.

Students examine the musical influences on the emergence of Rock and Roll.

In this lesson students practice using their motor skills with music. They are divided into two teams and rock and roll depending on the music. They may practice other motor skills in this lesson as well.

Students explore, listen to and analyze songs that helped define rock and roll music. They read and discuss the article, "They're All Oldies, Dad Included." Research on contemporary artists is conducted and then the students choose who they believe should be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Students study rock and roll with the music of Bruce Springsteen.

Students discuss the societal roots of music from times of slavery and black spirituals, and compare it to the emergence of Rap and Hip Hop music.

Learners analyze female artists who work in the genres of rock and roll, and alternative rock music. They complete an information sheet on biographical information.

This lesson has students probe samples of European classical, American jazz, and rock and roll to analyze the similarities and differences. The styles and form of these three types of music are examined for tempo, timbre, and rhythm.

In this lesson 7th graders explain how thousands of layers of sedimentary rock can confirm the long history of the changing surface of Earth and the changing life forms whose remains are found in successive layers, although the youngest layers are not always found on top, because of folding, breaking, and uplifting of layers.