Music Class Lesson Plan Ideas Using ChatGPT
In ChatGPT or your favorite AI chatbot, cut and paste the following prompt to help you create music lesson plans for your students. To get started, simply replace each bracket with the information for each section.
Music Class Lesson Plans Prompt
You are an expert music teacher and curriculum designer. Create [number] lesson plan ideas, ranging from [number range] minutes each, for [grade level] students learning about [topic]. Lesson plans should be engaging and age appropriate. Include songs with movement, singing games, and movement to a steady beat. Activities may include the use of [teacher accessible instrument(s)] for the teacher, or the use of [student accessible instrument(s)] for students.
Example Prompt
You are an expert music teacher and curriculum designer. Create 10 lesson plan ideas, ranging from 10-25 minutes each, for my kindergarten students learning about patterns in music. Lesson plans should be engaging and age appropriate. Include songs with movement, singing games, and movement to a steady beat. Activities may include the use of a piano or guitar for the teacher, or the use of castanets, egg shakers, or musical triangles for students.
Make the Prompt Work for You
Have ChatGPT expand on the lessons in myriad ways - ask for more activity ideas, ways to assess learning, specific standards, differentiated lessons. If needed, ask for direct instruction: "Idea 3 mentions 'percussion.' Provide age appropriate background for this lesson, including how I can explain percussion."
Enlist the help of ChatGPT to plan units as well as lessons. In addition to activity ideas, use the chatbot to map out a month long unit, or your curriculum for the year.
Ask ChatGPT for ideas to relate the music lessons to the rest of your students' curriculum. In this example, patterning can be incorporated into virtually all subjects: counting and sequencing patterns, language and alliteration patterns, patterns in nature, color patterns, movement and dance patterns, etc.