Florida Grade 3 Music Standards

The Grade 3 standards

Critical Thinking and Reflection 6

• MU.3.C.1.1

  Describe listening skills and how they support appreciation of musical works.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Harmonizing Part I (3, Wk 29); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Recorder Squire 5 - Merrily We Roll Along (4, Wk 11); Recorder Knight 1 - Let Us Play E G A (4, Wk 12)

• MU.3.C.1.2

  Respond to a musical work in a variety of ways and compare individual interpretations.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part I (3, Wk 19); Rhythm Review Part III (3, Wk 5); Introduction to Intervals (3, Wk 6); What note is it? (K, Wk 29)

• MU.3.C.1.3

  Identify families of orchestral and band instruments.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hello C Chord Part III (5, Wk 10); Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2); Beet and Melon (K, Wk 3); Beet & Shh (K, Wk 6)

• MU.3.C.1.4

  Discriminate between unison and two-part singing.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Introduction to Intervals (3, Wk 6); C Major Scale Review Part II (2, Wk 2); Steps (2, Wk 5); Skips (2, Wk 7)

• MU.3.C.2.1

  Evaluate performances of familiar music using teacher-established criteria.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Recorder Knight 3 - Doggie, Doggie (4, Wk 14); Chord Theory Part II (5, Wk 31); The Itsy Bitsy Spider (PK, Wk 15)

• MU.3.C.3.1

  Identify musical characteristics and elements within a piece of music when discussing the value of the work.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sevenths & Octaves (3, Wk 27); Recorder Page 1 - Basic Techniques (4, Wk 1); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 34); Hi High C (K, Wk 11)

Innovation, Technology, and the Future 4

• MU.3.F.1.1

  Enhance the meaning of a story or poem by creating a musical interpretation using voices, instruments, movement, and/or found sounds.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Rhythm Reivew Part I (3, Wk 3); Rhythm Reivew Part II (3, Wk 4); Seconds - Part I (3, Wk 8); Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12)

• MU.3.F.2.1

  Identify musicians in the school, community, and media.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Recorder Page 2 - High D Shield Patterns (4, Wk 2); Parts of the Ukulele (5, Wk 3); Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1); Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1)

• MU.3.F.2.2

  Describe opportunities for personal music-making.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1); Welcome (5, Wk 1); Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (1, Wk 29); Hot Cross Buns (PK, Wk 19)

• MU.3.F.3.1

  Collaborate with others to create a musical presentation and acknowledge individual contributions as an integral part of the whole.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Harmonizing Part II (3, Wk 30); Compound Meter Part III (3, Wk 21); Trading 4s in C Major (2, Wk 24); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9)

Historical and Global Connections 5

• MU.3.H.1.1

  Compare indigenous instruments of specified cultures.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Recorder Lord/Lady 4 - Jingle Bells (4, Wk 21); Beet & Watermelon (K, Wk 16); Beet & Grapefruit (K, Wk 17)

• MU.3.H.1.2

  Identify significant information about specified composers and one or more of their musical works.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Resolutions (3, Wk 28); Steps (2, Wk 6); Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Pizza Rhythms (2, Wk 10)

• MU.3.H.1.3

  Identify timbre(s) in music from a variety of cultures.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sound vs Noise/Bell or Boomwhacker? (K, Wk 23); Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Recorder Lord/Lady 4 - Jingle Bells (4, Wk 21); Welcome (5, Wk 1)

• MU.3.H.2.1

  Discuss how music in America was influenced by people and events in its history.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Hello C Chord Part III (5, Wk 10); Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 33); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27)

• MU.3.H.3.1

  Experience and discuss, using correct music and other relevant content-area vocabulary, similarities in the use of pattern, line, and form in music and other teacher-selected contexts.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Harmonizing Part II (3, Wk 30); Sevenths & Octaves (3, Wk 27); Chromatic Intervals (3, Wk 33); Song Form Review (2, Wk 20)

Organizational Structure 4

• MU.3.O.1.1

  Identify, using correct music vocabulary, the elements in a musical work.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Seconds - Part III (3, Wk 10); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Muffin Man (2, Wk 29); Skidamarink (2, Wk 30)

• MU.3.O.1.2

  Identify and describe the musical form of a familiar song.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Song Form Review (2, Wk 20); Recorder Page 1 - Basic Techniques (4, Wk 1); Lightly Row Performance Part II- Song + Analysis (2, Wk 34); Three Cs Part II (5, Wk 12)

• MU.3.O.2.1

  Rearrange melodic or rhythmic patterns to generate new phrases.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Page 4 - B A Shield Patterns (4, Wk 4); Recorder Page 5 - B A G Shield Patterns (4, Wk 5); Recorder Knight 2 - Breath Technique (4, Wk 13); Beet & Avocado (PK, Wk 26)

• MU.3.O.3.1

  Describe how tempo and dynamics can change the mood or emotion of a piece of music.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Dynamics (2, Wk 23); C Major Deskbells Review (2, Wk 26); Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27)

Skills, Techniques, and Processes 8

• MU.3.S.1.1

  Improvise rhythms or melodies over ostinati.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19); Recorder Knight 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, and A (4, Wk 17); Recorder Lord/Lady 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, A, B, D (4, Wk 22); Lightly Row Performance Part II- Song + Analysis (2, Wk 34)

• MU.3.S.1.2

  Create an alternate ending to a familiar song.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Thirds Part II (3, Wk 12); Recorder Knight 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, and A (4, Wk 17); Recorder Lord/Lady 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, A, B, D (4, Wk 22); Song Form Review (2, Wk 20)

• MU.3.S.2.1

  Identify patterns in songs to aid the development of sequencing and memorization skills.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Page 5 - B A G Shield Patterns (4, Wk 5); Recorder Squire 2 - Warm Up #1 (4, Wk 8); Recorder Squire 5 - Merrily We Roll Along (4, Wk 11); Chord Progressions Part III (5, Wk 20)

• MU.3.S.3.1

  Sing rounds, canons, or ostinati in an appropriate range, using head voice and maintaining pitch.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Harmonizing Part III (3, Wk 31); Skips (2, Wk 8); Muffin Man (2, Wk 29); Skidamarink (2, Wk 30)

• MU.3.S.3.2

  Play melodies and layered ostinati, using proper instrumental technique, on pitched and unpitched instruments.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 5 - The Rainbows Shine (4, Wk 26); Recorder Knight 3 - Doggie, Doggie (4, Wk 14); Recorder Knight 5 - Bounce High, Bounce Low (4, Wk 16); Recorder King/Queen 1 - Let Us Play Low C & D (4, Wk 23)

• MU.3.S.3.3

  Sing simple la-sol-mi-re-do patterns at sight.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Seconds and Thirds Review (3, Wk 13); Compound Meter Part I (3, Wk 19); Rhythm Review (2, Wk 11); Song Form Review (2, Wk 20)

• MU.3.S.3.4

  Match simple aural rhythm patterns in duple and triple meter with written patterns.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part I (3, Wk 19); Compound Meter Part II (3, Wk 20); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4); Recorder Squire 2 - Warm Up #1 (4, Wk 8)

• MU.3.S.3.5

  Notate simple rhythmic and melodic patterns using traditional notation.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Lightly Row Performance Part I - Steps & Skips (2, Wk 33); C Major Solfege Hand-Sign Review (2, Wk 25); Itsy Bitsy Spider (2, Wk 31); 5 Note Melodies (1, Wk 28)