Pupils view a video about different types of music. They examine the history of jazz, big band and rock back to the city of Chicago. They discover Chicago's music scene today and compare it to the past.

Lesson plan where learners learn what forte and piano mean and idenitfy them in music and pictures that represent sounds. Students also will demonstrate forte and piano while singing a song that they learn from a video.

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Music can loosely be defined as organized sound. The instructional activity objectives, understanding sound is a form of energy, understanding pitch, understanding sound traveling through a medium, and being able to separate music from...