3x5 Card Composition

National Standards for Music Education
  Content Standard #2: Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
    Achievement Standard b: Students perform easy rhythmic, melodic, and chordal patterns accurately and independently on rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic classroom instruments.
  Content Standard #4: Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.
    Achievement Standard b: Students create and arrange short songs and instrumental pieces within specified guidelines.
  Content Standard #5: Reading and notating music
    Achievement Standard a: Students read whole, half, dotted half, quarter, and eighth notes and rests in two four, three four, and four four meter signatures.
Maine Learning Results
  A. Creative Expression: Students will create and or perform to express ideas and feelings.
    K-2 #12. Students will be able to recognize musical symbols.
    3-4 #2: Students will be able to apply previously learned principles to perform, create, revise, and or refine works.
    3-4 #4 Students will be able to create original works using different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, feelings, and meaning.
    3-4 #6: Students will be able to read simple musical compositions.

 

 

 

 

3x5 Card Composition Assessment Strategy
 
  • Divide class into small groups or do as individuals
  • Each group or individual gets a number of index cards with whole, half, quarter, and eighth notes and rests printed on them (complexity of notes indicated by the grade level)
  • Students put the cards in any order for two measures (They must figure out the counts for each measure)
  • Students must use each card at least once.
  • Students perform their composition on classroom instruments

 

 

Assessment Rubric

Name _____________________________________________ Date _______________

Partially Meets the Standards Meets the Standards Exceeds the Standards
The student needed help with the directions, was placing the notes into measures without regard to the counts in each measure, didn't use all their cards, was able to perform their composition with help at a unsteady beat. The student followed directions, was able to place notes and rests into measures with the correct counts in each measure with only a few mistakes, used all their cards at least once, and was able to perform their composition with a unsteady beat. The student followed directions, was able to correctly place notes and rests into measures with the correct counts in each measure, used all their cards at least once, and was able to perform their composition flawlessly with a steady tempo.

 

 

 

    

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