Grade 6 Orchestra Units

Explore Grade 6 Orchestra and Strings unit plans with standards-aligned lessons that build technique, ensemble skills, and confident musical performance.

Grade 6 Orchestra Units

Unit Plan 36 (Grade 6 Orchestra): End-of-Year Performance & Reflection

Grade 6 orchestra unit: perform repertoire, reflect on growth in technique, ensemble unity, musicianship, and set goals for next year.

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Unit Plan 35 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Final Performance Prep

Grade 6 orchestra unit builds performance repertoire through focused rehearsal, feedback, and goal tracking to improve tone, rhythm, and ensemble unity.

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Unit Plan 34 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Purposeful Music Choices

Grade 6 orchestra unit where students connect bowing, tone color, and roles to audience impact, plan purposeful interpretations, and explain musical meaning.

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Unit Plan 33 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Evaluate Our Growth

Grade 6 orchestra unit where students evaluate ensemble growth using recordings and a rubric, cite specific evidence for tone/intonation/rhythm/bow unity/expression, and set clear rehearsal goals with strategies for continued improvement.

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Unit Plan 32 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Expressive Performance

Grade 6 orchestra unit performing with accurate pitch and rhythm while shaping dynamics, phrasing, and tone to create expressive, unified ensemble sound.

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Unit Plan 31 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Independent Rehearsal Skills

Grade 6 orchestra unit teaching chunking, looping, and bowing isolation to independently fix difficult passages and build confident rehearsal habits.

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Unit Plan 30 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Technique & Stamina Boost

Grade 6 orchestra technique unit building bow control, left-hand shape, posture, and endurance through warm-ups, recordings, feedback, and goal-setting across a full rehearsal.

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Unit Plan 29 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Sight-Reading Development

Grade 6 orchestra unit building confident sight-reading through rhythm accuracy, steady tempo, and finger pattern awareness using practical rehearsal strategies.

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Unit Plan 28 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Expressive Improvisation

Grade 6 orchestra unit on expressive improvisation using limited pitch sets, dynamics, tempo, and bowing to communicate emotion through short melodies.

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Unit Plan 27 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Ensemble Performance

Perform Grade 6 orchestra repertoire with steady tempo, unified bowing, and characteristic tone while building rehearsal etiquette, conductor focus, and reflective skills for ensemble success.

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Unit Plan 26 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Musical Storytelling Composition

Create and perform a Grade 6 orchestra piece that tells a story using tempo, dynamics, bowing, and contour, with students explaining their expressive choices.

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Unit Plan 25 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Authentic Style Choices

Grade 6 orchestra unit performing with authentic style, using context to shape tempo, bowing, dynamics, tone, and character through rehearsal and reflection.

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Unit Plan 24 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Music in Context—Culture & History

Grade 6 orchestra unit exploring cultural and historical context to guide tempo, dynamics, articulation, tone color, and style through listening, research, and a “Music in Context Snapshot.”

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Unit Plan 23 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Identity & Goals as a String Player

Grade 6 orchestra unit linking student interests to goals, habits, and identity to build reflective, motivated string players and ensemble contributors.

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Unit Plan 22 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Evaluate Like a Musician

Evaluate orchestra performances with criteria for intonation, rhythm, tone, bow unity, and expression, citing musical evidence to justify ratings.

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Unit Plan 21 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Compare Two Performances

Compare two string performances for tempo, dynamics, bowing clarity, tone, and ensemble unity, citing evidence to justify the stronger interpretation.

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Unit Plan 20 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Tone Color—Strings, Strings, Strings

Grade 6 orchestra unit explores tone color through string choice, bow placement, and instrument roles to shape musical character and expression.

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Unit Plan 19 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Elements & Form in Repertoire

Grade 6 orchestra unit teaches students to identify rhythm, melody, tempo, dynamics, and AB/ABA form through listening and score mapping skills.

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Unit Plan 18 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Sharing Created Music

Grade 6 orchestra students perform a final original piece, using tempo, dynamics, bowing, and phrasing to express intent, then reflect and explain choices.

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Unit Plan 17 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Rehearsing for Unity

Grade 6 orchestra unit teaches rehearsal strategies to improve ensemble timing, bow alignment, and accuracy using feedback and recordings for growth.

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Unit Plan 16 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Interpretation Tools—Bowing, Tone, Dynamics

Demonstrate how bowing, dynamics, and tone shape string interpretation by performing contrasting styles and comparing recordings using clear music vocabulary.

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Unit Plan 15 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Revision Studio—Playability & Intonation

Revise and refine Grade 6 orchestra compositions using feedback to improve playability, bow control, and intonation, then perform and explain the changes in clear notation.

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Unit Plan 14 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Notation & Bowing Marks

Grade 6 orchestra students notate melodies with accurate pitch, rhythm, dynamics, and bowings, creating clear, performable scores that communicate expression.

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Unit Plan 13 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Form in Action—AB & ABA

Grade 6 orchestra unit teaches AB, ABA, and call-response form, helping students organize melodies with contrast, repetition, and expressive intent.

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Unit Plan 12 (Grade 6 Orchestra): Motive Building—Compose a Melody

Compose an 8-measure Grade 6 orchestra melody using stepwise motion, repetition, and a strong tonic ending—building motives and phrasing in key and meter.