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Unit Plan 24 (Grade 5 Music): Cultural Performance Practice

Grade 5 music unit exploring how cultural, social, and historical context shapes performance choices and connects music to daily life and other arts.

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Unit Plan 23 (Grade 5 Music): Music Around the World

Grade 5 music: explore global traditions, linking music to culture, history, dance, visual art, daily life, and cross-curricular connections.

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Unit Plan 22 (Grade 5 Music): Music in Daily Life

Grade 5 music: connect music to daily life at school, home, and community, explaining how interests, skills, and identity shape musical choices.

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Unit Plan 21 (Grade 5 Music): Expressive Listening

Grade 5 music: analyze expression (tempo, dynamics, articulation, timbre, phrasing) to explain mood/meaning, comparing performances and citing evidence.

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Unit Plan 20 (Grade 5 Music): Music Preferences & Evaluation

Grade 5 music: evaluate excerpts with criteria and evidence, linking preferences to melody, rhythm, dynamics, timbre, and context.

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Unit Plan 19 (Grade 5 Music): Musical Form & Structure

Grade 5 general music unit: identify and explain musical forms (ABA, rondo/ABACA, theme and variation), map repeated vs. contrasting sections, and describe how form and structure shape listening responses and performance choices.

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Unit Plan 18 (Grade 5 Music): Melodic Performance

Grade 5 general music unit: perform short songs or instrumental melodies with accurate pitch/rhythm, expressive dynamics/tempo/articulation, appropriate style, and strong performance decorum and audience etiquette.

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Unit Plan 17 (Grade 5 Music): Revising Musical Ideas

Grade 5 music: revise rhythms, melodies, or accompaniments using clear criteria and teacher/peer feedback, document before-and-after changes, and explain what improved and why.

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Unit Plan 16 (Grade 5 Music): Selecting Music for Purpose

Grade 5 music: choose and justify performance music for specific audiences and events, considering style, mood, length, difficulty, and performer skills, plus personal interests.

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Unit Plan 15 (Grade 5 Music): Expressive Singing & Playing

Grade 5 music: rehearse and perform a short melody using dynamics, tempo, timbre, and articulation to show expressive intent, explaining choices and tracking improvement with rehearsal strategies.

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Unit Plan 14 (Grade 5 Music): Notating Melodic Ideas

Grade 5 music: document original melodies with clear notation and/or recordings so others can read, remember, and perform them accurately, revising for clarity and shareability.

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3-5 Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan (Grades 3-5): Code-Your-Own Coordinate Art - An In-Depth Grades 3–5 STEM & Math Unit

Code-Your-Own Coordinate Art for grades 3–5 blends coordinate plotting and coding by creating pixel art with ordered-pair “scripts,” decoding peers’ designs, debugging errors, and showcasing a final gallery.

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Unit Plan 13 (Grade 5 Music): Melodic Improvisation

Grade 5 music: improvise melodies that express a chosen mood or scene using limited pitch sets and rhythms, then explain how your musical choices fit the purpose and context.

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Unit Plan 12 (Grade 5 Music): Chords & Simple Harmony

Grade 5 music: create simple chord accompaniments for familiar melodies, choosing I/IV/V patterns and textures that fit a purpose or context, then explain your harmony choices.

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Unit Plan 11 (Grade 5 Music): Major & Minor Tonality

Grade 5 music: create major/minor melodies, use dynamics/tempo/articulation, and explain how tonality shapes mood and meaning.

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Unit Plan 10 (Grade 5 Music): Melodic Direction & Contour

Grade 5 melodic contour unit: students analyze and perform melodies by tracking pitch direction, contour, and phrase shape, then explain—using musical evidence—how melodic structure influences meaning, expression, and listener response.

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Unit Plan 9 (Grade 5 Music): Rhythm Performance & Etiquette

Grade 5 rhythm performance unit: play rhythm pieces with steady accuracy, expressive interpretation, and proper performer decorum plus respectful audience etiquette for any venue.

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Unit Plan 8 (Grade 5 Music): Rhythm Ensemble Rehearsal

Refine Grade 5 rhythmic ensemble skills with criteria-based rehearsal, peer/teacher feedback, and progress tracking to improve accuracy, coordination, and expressive performance over time.

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Unit Plan 7 (Grade 5 Music): Expressive Rhythm

Explore how Grade 5 students use dynamics, tempo, and articulation to transform the same rhythm into different moods, justify interpretive choices, and explain how expression shapes listener response.

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Unit Plan 6 (Grade 5 Music): Notating Rhythm & Harmony

Document Grade 5 rhythm + simple harmony ideas using notation/recording so students can share, replay, and perform patterns accurately with clear directions and chord/drone support.

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Unit Plan 5 (Grade 5 Music): Rhythm Improvisation

Create Grade 5 rhythm improvisations for real events, then refine the best ideas into clear 1–2 measure patterns that match purpose, audience, and context using musical evidence.

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Unit Plan 4 (Grade 5 Music): Rhythm in Context

Explore how Grade 5 rhythm and tempo reveal a song’s style and purpose, using cultural/historical context to guide performance choices and explain listener responses with evidence.

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Unit Plan 3 (Grade 5 Music): Reading Rhythm Patterns

Read and perform Grade 5 rhythm patterns from standard notation using counting/syllables and chunking, building confident, accurate clapping, speaking, and playing in common meters.

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Unit Plan 2 (Grade 5 Music): Steady Beat & Complex Meter

Grade 5 students review steady beat and explore simple vs. compound meter through movement, clapping, instruments, and listening—using musical evidence to explain how beat groupings shape feelings, responses, and performance choices.

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Unit Plan 1 (Grade 5 Music): Music Routines & Listening

Grade 5 students build music routines, listening focus, and performance habits while connecting personal interests and experiences to music they hear and perform.