Cooperative learning ideas for music Kagan structures Cooperative learning ideas for music

Question: (x+4)(2x-5) = 2x-3x-25 Expanding double brackets. Can you find three things wrong with this answer?

Think Pair Share What are the potential disadvantages of traditional questioning in a lesson?

Timed Pair Share What are the most important things to remember to get a nice sound from a recorder?

Circle the sage An alien lands in your back garden and demands to know how to play a G chord on the ukulele. What will you say to it?

Pass the problem Leader: ask the question on the front of the card. Check your answer with the previous group’s. Write your answer on the back if it is different. Pass the card on to the next group.

Choose some words from the list which describe this music best forte allegro low pitch ostinato piano legato andante high pitch staccato

What type of animal do you think this music is describing and why?

Which instruments can you hear playing?

Carousel Learning Leaders: Your job is to learn to play the birdsong on the card. You will then go back to your group and teach your group to play the song. To make this a little more interesting, you will need to memorise the music on the card!

Brainstorming Task! To compose and perform a song about an animal in your group of four. It can be about any animal, real or imaginary. Allocate each person in your group a number between 1 and 4.

1. Speed sergeant Speed Sergeant – your job is to keep everyone on task, moving quickly. Make sure the job gets done on time!

2. Chief Support Chief Support – your job is to encourage your group, give praise and get the best out of everyone in your team

3. Improvement Guru Improvement Guru – your job is to make sure that your group is always striving to be the best! Take the good ideas and see if your group can improve on them further.

4. Sultan of Silly Sultan of Silly! – You don’t have to provide all the silly ideas and suggestions, but it is your job to encourage your group to keep things daft and light-hearted.

More Carousel Learning Four Chord Song time! Learn a melody that fits with the four chord song and teach your group to play that melody. Don’t forget that some instruments will need to transpose it – you’re in charge!