Submitted by: Donna Roye
School: Gayton Elementary
Summary
Students will explore the background and history of the Blues and its importance to American popular music, demonstrate a knowledge of basic Blues guitar techniques, describe and contrast two Blues recordings and create their own 12-bar blues song.
TIPC Ratings
This lesson is entry in research and information fluency. Students acquired information using provided resources.
This lesson is developing in communication and collaboration. Students worked in teacher selected groups with defined roles.
This lesson is developing in critical thinking and problem solving. When prompted by the teacher, students used higher order thinking. Used digital tools to think about the topic.
This lesson is developing on its way to approaching in creativity and innovation. Students worked on class assignment that blends technology and limited aspects of personal choice to generate new ideas. Students created meaningful, original work.