This was my absolute favorite lesson of last year and of course plan on doing it with my third graders again this year. My students are still talking about this project. They just loved it!
We began this lesson by listening to Jazz music (the New Orleans kind). I asked students to close their eyes and try to visualize the music. We discussed the concept of showing visual rhythm by using colors and shapes. I told students that the idea behind this lesson was to try to describe jazz music to someone who is deaf.
Several of them have asked if we could do it again!!!
We began this lesson by listening to Jazz music (the New Orleans kind). I asked students to close their eyes and try to visualize the music. We discussed the concept of showing visual rhythm by using colors and shapes. I told students that the idea behind this lesson was to try to describe jazz music to someone who is deaf. These were collaged with construction paper. I even let them cut up real music sheets (which I found online). They had to have one large instrument, but the rest was up to them. The last few minutes of class I gave them oil pastels.
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