Music: Primary Lesson _ Students enjoy a new song and learn tune and pitch

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/primary-music-weekly-singing-session

In what ways do students warm up before learning a new song?

What do teachers recommend about pacing and engagement?

Notice the importance of hand signals in helping students understand tune and pitch.

Scientific modeling in the elementary grades

 https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/scientific-modeling-elementary-grades-nsf


Questions to consider:

1. Why is it important for young people to gain experience from scientific modeling?

2. What role do questioning play in these classrooms? What kind of questions do you hear?

3. The lessons in these videos are from the end of units? What do you notice about the learning that students have done during these units?

Differentiating with learning menus

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/differentiating-instruction-strategy

Questions to consider:

1. Why is student choice an important part of differentiation?

2. How does the structure of an assessment (graphic organiser, website, brochure) help students summarize content?

3. How does the teacher in this clip assess students after each phase of the project?

4. If you use differentiated instruction and students choose their own task from the menu and all students are graded on a 1-10 rubric, where do you account for degree of difficulty? How is it fair that the student who chooses easiest tasks throughout the menu earns 10 as compared to students who choose difficult tasks and earn 10?