Music Class Lesson Plan Ideas Using an AI Chatbot
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 skilled in creating lesson plans that are fun, hands-on, and produce meaningful learning about music for your students. Your task is to create [NUMBER] lesson plan ideas, ranging from [NUMBER RANGE] minutes each, for [GRADE LEVEL] students learning about [TOPIC]. The lesson plans should be engaging and age appropriate. Make sure to 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 skilled in creating lesson plans that are fun, hands-on, and produce meaningful learning about music for your students. Your task is to create 10 lesson plan ideas, ranging from 10-25 minutes each, for my kindergarten students learning about patterns in music. The lesson plans should be engaging and age appropriate. Make sure to 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.
Additional Prompting Strategies
Have the chatbot 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 the chatbot 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 the chatbot 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.
