Lesson Plan Template

Kadine Lloyd
Music 261

Lesson Topic: facts on Mercury, Venus, Earth

Grade level:4thgrade
Length of lesson: 30-35min

Stage 1 Desired Results

Content Standard(s):
Music Standards
Science Standards

Understanding (s)/goals Essential Question(s): what

Have students learn the many
facts of the planets in
comparisons. With a zoom on the
3 closets to the sun.
Recall specific details about their
home planet Earth.
planet was discovered in 1930?
Resources Needed: handout on
the solar system.
-Wikipedia document on Gustav
Holts
-NASA latest news release
website

Student objectives (outcomes):

Students will be able to recall facts about the planets. They will recognize
earths place in the solar system. Reflect on mercury knowing that its the only
planet visited by only one spacecraft Mariner 10. After going over the facts
we will play a game called. The Planets the students will each have a
circular shape planet and they will each state two facts about their planets.

Stage 2 Assessment Evidence

Performance Task(s): we will read Other Evidence:
a brief biography of Mercury -students interest in the music piece
from The Planets-Gustav Holts. -students comments after listening
Fun fact Discovered by student in -students answer questions in
response to question. comparison to the piece and what
Pluto was discovered in 1930 they have learned about the planets.
four years before Holts death
-we will listen to the piece called
Mercury using music to make
connection to movements of outer
space. make a relation to the planets
and their movement.
 Stage 3 Learning Plan
Learning Activities
Students will listen to the piece Mercury and tell how they feel this can relate
to the solar system and the movement of the planets.

Students will recall what they learned during the game with naming the
different facts about the planets.

-Have students name 3 facts about each planet and link the planet mercury
with what they heard in the piece and based on the handout about the
composer.
-homework, students will create a mini solar system and bring in a music that
fits the movement and pace of the moving planets.

Followup/Assessment

For example if your goal and objective is to get students (students will be
able to ____ after the next 45 minutes of this class) to analyze how particular
lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal
aspects of a character, or provoke a decision, RL 8.3.A), then your
components of the lesson plan may contain:
1) An Essential question
2) Activating activity
3) Guided instruction
4) Unguided instruction
5) Assessment
6) Reflection