The lesson that I used from www.lessonplanspage.com is meant to to teach high school students about intervals, scales and triads. These three concepts are key to understand different musical styles and genres, as well as being some of the most basic and universally used ideas in music. Whether they realize it or not, students play intervals, scales and triads, in performance based classes on a daily basis.
I found the lesson plan to be pretty complete, but it lacked a technological aspect. There are so many music programs and interactive website available, that I find it senseless to not utilize them within a class. I adjusted the teaching strategy a bit to make it more interactive, but I believe that both my way and the original lesson plan do fall in line with the curriculum goals. That being said, I did make a two big adjustments to how the teacher would give out the information. Rather than using a chalkboard (or whiteboard), I am using a SMARTboard for this activity. The SMARTboard gives both the teacher and students the chance to visualize as well as hear the concepts being discussed. It is incredibly important for students to know what each interval sounds like as well as looks like, and this isn't possible with a regular chalkboard or whiteboard. To show the musical staff, I decided to Finale (a music writing software). Finale enables the user to write (and edit) musical notation, and then play back the audio of the music written. These technological advances make the lesson much more interactive and challenging for the students, and I feel as though the concepts will resonate much more if they are to learn through the technologies that I have come up with.
Here is the link to my spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Avdvspao4UKkdGVQZUkyODhZZ05jN2tfWENhaUo4dmc&usp=sharing&hl=en&forcehl=1#gid=0
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