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Plan Number: 012
Title/Lesson/Theme:
Percussion Instruments
Designed by: Carol Webb & Margaret Parks
Grade level/Discipline: 6,7,8/Art
Estimated Time: 5-7 class periods
Objectives (what will be assessed?):
The student will research information and images about African percussion instruments using "Art and Life in Africa" CD. The students will compare African percussion instruments to percussion instruments of their own culture. The student will construct a drum using decoration to personally authenticate their creation.
Description/Background:
The African culture is ceremonial oriented, and the pecussion instruments are an integral and essential part of rituals. In our society instruments are used in entertainment primarily.
Step by Step Procedure:
- Discuss uses of musical instruments in our society (i.e. orchestra, rock band, marching band) and distinguish between manufactured instruments and personally decorated instruments. Include examples from several musical styles.
- Show slide show from "Art and Life in Africa" CD, selecting appropriate examples of drums, rattles, etc. (slide show index - type, objects and field photos.)
- Read or talk about specific uses of musical instruments and performance in African culture.
- Refer to decoration and ornamentation of African instruments. Instruct students to develop designs for their own instruments.
- Suggestion for drum construction: Use papier mache technique to construct a cylinder; use round cardboard container for support and brown craft paper for layers.
- Decorate dried cylinders with ink or paint, transfer previously designed symbols and images.
- Stretch leather over each end and lace pieces together.
- Decorate with addition of other items if desired.
- Formulate ways to use drums as part of school-day routine as opposed to special performance for entertainment.
Assignment in CD (essays, chapters):
Random - see Art Slide Index - search for "musical instruments" under "type."
Studio Materials Needed:
cylindrical cardboard containers
brown craft paper
papier mache paste - wheat paste
acrylic paint, ink, brushes
beads, raffia
leather
Vocabulary:
Refer to text corresponding to selected slides.
Evaluation/Assessment tool (how will objectives be assessed?:
Creative and personal ideas generated orally and through process, procedural
technique, effort, craftsmanship and participation.
Bibliography/Alternative resources:
Submitted 7/21/98