ELMS Curriculum Map for: 6th Grade Music Appreciation
Unit 1
Semester 1 and 2 ( 9 weeks course)
Unit 2.1
Unit 2.2
Unit 2.3
Name: What is music and Why
study It?
Time frame: 2-4 days
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.9.c.
Name: Sound and Pitch
Name: Dynamics and Timbre
Name: Rhythm
Time frame: 2 days
Standards/Elements: MMSMA.3.a
Time frame: 3 days
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.6.a.b.
Time frame: 1 day
Standards/Elements: MMSMA.3.a
KUDs
Know: How music is used in our
culture. Why it’s important to learn
about music
Understand: Music exists to enrich
our lives.
Do: Questionnaire
KUDs
Know: The relationship between
pitch and sound. Pitch is a property
of sound
Understand: Four main properties
of sound
Do: Demonstrate low and high
pitch
KUDs
Know: Definitions of dynamics
and timbre. These are also
properties of sound.
Understand: Timbre makes
instruments sounds recognizable
Do: Listen to recordings of
instruments
KUDs
Know: Rhythm is the 4th property
of sound. Def: Ordered flow of
music through time.
Understand: Rhythm is essential to
life and music.
Do: Have students feel the rhythm
of their heartbeat or pulse.
Vocabulary: music, sacred, secular
Vocabulary: pitch, tone, sound
Vocabulary: timbre, dynamics
Vocabulary: rhythm
Performance Task: Worksheet 1.2
Performance Task: Worksheet 2.1
Performance Task: Worksheet 2.2
Performance Task: Worksheet 2.3
Notes Tone color gives music
contrast.
Notes Your heartbeat has a
rhythm.
Notes: Active discussion in classes Notes Sound and noise are
different.
ELMS Curriculum Map for: 6th Grade Music Appreciation
Unit 2.4
Semester 1 and 2 ( 9 weeks course)
Unit 2.5
Unit 2.6
Unit 2.7
Name: Beat and Meter
Time frame: 2-3 days
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.6.a.c.
Name: Accent and Tempo
Time frame: 2 days
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.6.a.b.c.
Name: Voices
Time frame: 3 days
Standards/Elements: .
MMSMA.6.a.c.
Name: Instruments
Time frame: 4
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.6.a.c.
KUDs
Know: Beat is the pulse of music.
Meter is the time.
KUDs
Know: Definitions of accent and
tempo
KUDs
Know: Six large categories of
instruments.
Understand: Note values
Understand: Relationship of
accent to beat. Tempo affects
mood.
Do: Explain different tempos: fast,
slow.
KUDs
Know: Male and female singing
voices. Everyone can sing, but not
everyone sings well.
Understand: Method and style of
singing varies with culture and
style eras.
Do: Listen to recordings of vocal
music.
Vocabulary: beat, meter
Vocabulary: accent, tempo
Vocabulary: none
Vocabulary: western music
Performance Task: Worksheet 2.4
Performance Task: Worksheet 2.5
Performance Task: Worksheet 2.6
Performance Task: Worksheet 2.7
Notes: Composer determines the
beat and meter.
Notes: Tempos may change within
a piece of music.
Notes: Singing is the easiest and
most familiar way to make music.
Notes: Popular bands have drums,
electric bass and guitar, and
keyboards.
Do: Read the value of notes
Understand: Instrumentation of
different ensembles.
Do: Listen to recordings of
different ensembles.
ELMS Curriculum Map for: 6th Grade Music Appreciation
Unit 2.8
Semester 1 and 2 ( 9 weeks course)
Unit 2.9
Unit 3.1
Name: Melody and Harmony
Time frame: 3 days
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.6.a.c.
Name: Texture and Style
Time frame: 4 days
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.6.a.b.c.
KUDs
Know: Melody is a musical
sentence.
KUDs
Know: How texture has evolved
through the music style eras.
Name: The Middle Ages
Time frame: 5 days
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.9.a.b.
Unit 3.2
Name: The Renaissance Era
Time frame: 5 days
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.9.a.b.
KUDs
Know: The 2 major categories of
music: sacred and secular. Music is
monophonic.
Understand: All music can be
Understand: Importance of
categorized by texture.
Gregorian Chant
Do: Listen to examples of textures. Do: Listen to examples of sacred
and secular music.
KUDs
Know: Education becomes
important. Polyphony replaces
monophony.
Understand: New forms of music
are composed.
Do: Listen to examples of
Renaissance music..
Vocabulary: melody, leaps, steps,
harmony
Vocabulary: monophonic,
polyphonic, homophonic
Vocabulary: Gregorian chant,
sacred secular, monophony
Vocabulary: composers, word
painting, dynamics, tone color,
rhythm, polyphony
Performance Task: Worksheet 2.8
Performance Task: Worksheet 2.9
Performance Task: Worksheet 3.1
Performance Task: Worksheet 3.2
Notes: Harmony is made up of
chords.
Notes: Texture of music has
Notes: The educated were the
changed through musical style eras. clergy and the wealthy/royalty.
Understand: Melody is
accompanied by harmony.
Do: Demonstrate
Notes: Musical training was an
important part of education.
ELMS Curriculum Map for: 6th Grade Music Appreciation
Semester 1 and 2 ( 9 weeks course)
Unit 4
Name: Opera/Musical
Time frame: 6 days
Standards/Elements:
MMSMA.9.a.c.
KUDs
Know: Opera was entertainment
for the wealthy/royalty.
Understand: Musicals were
derived from opera. A form of
entertainment created by the
middle class.
Do: Watch a musical.
Vocabulary: opera, musical
Performance Task: Test
Notes: Discussion of story line