Lesson Plan 3 (in the computer lab): "Five Little Monkeys" Slide Show

Objective:

1. To create a Slide Show for the song, "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed". (27.A.1b)

Classroom Material:

• Teacher-created "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" Slide Show
• KidPix software program
• computer disks for saving student work

Time:

One, thirty minute music class

Prior knowledge:

The students will have had experience with the software program, "KidPix".

Instructional Procedure:

1. Using the large screen television and the LTV hookup to the computer, show the students the teacher-created Slide Show for "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed".

2. Have the students sing along to the Slide Show.

3. Pair the students at the computers in the computer lab and allow them to create one slide to illustrate and record the lyrics to the song, "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed". Each pair of students should be assigned only one page of the song. Have the students save their work on a disk.

4. The students will do an "art gallery" walkthrough and look at the other students' created work.

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Submitted: July 1, 1998