Early Childhood Education
Learning Experience Template
Name: Mara Sandlewick Lesson Title: Music Exploration
Date: Grade Level: Infant Circle one: ECE PKSN*
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Standard(s)/Guideline(s): Self-Awareness 1b. Develops understanding of emotions.
Standard(s)/Guideline(s): People, communities, and their environment. 1b. Develops a basic understanding of needs and wants.
Pre-assessment of current knowledge: Slowly add music throughout the day and observe if they notice a difference.
Instructional Objectives (1-2) Assessment of Student Learning Learning Experience
One/Two Assessed Instructional Identify Evidence: (What will you collect or record as data Academic Language:
Objective(s): The student will be to demonstrate students have met your objective(s) and Music
able to... skill?) Emotions
- Create two graphs, one of emotions that shows a tally of Rhythm
the number of babies that connected with the music and the Mood
-Understand what tones and other one consisting of what songs the babies were more Tones
rhythms calm them down. connected to.
-Understand that music can Procedural steps:
change mood. 1. When the babies are awake play upbeat music and
Program Monitoring: (How will you aggregate or compile see how they respond.
your evidence into a class or group view?) 2. When it is naptime, play calming music, and see how
One Assessed Developmental quickly they fall asleep.
Skill: -Take a photo of the graphs and find the most liked song 3. Make graphs on what I observe.
The baby will be able to show a and the most common emotion tied to it.
variety of emotions.
Authentic Materials: (Describe authentic real-life, hands-on
Differentiation: materials.)
-For babies not emotionally connecting with the music we - White noise machine
can have them further away from the music so it is less - Speaker
Safety Considerations: distracting.
-The music is child friendly and -Shuffle through a variety of music to allow for different
not too loud for their ears. connections. Adult Roles:
The adult roles during this are too play music when
necessary, also at a good volume. Also, to monitor the babies
to make sure they are in a safe environment.
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Early Childhood Education
Learning Experience Template
Resources & References: https://education.ohio.gov/getattachment/Topics/Early-Learning/Early-Learning-Content-Standards/Early-Learning-and-Development-
Standards.pdf.aspx?lang=en-US
Reflection: (What have you learned about your students? How will this inform future instruction?) I have not had the experience to share this lesson to infants.
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