Choir · Week 12 · Ensemble Sound and Listening
Vocal Health
Students learn habits that protect their voices and decide how to balance practice, rest, and hydration.
- Students will
- Students develop strategies to protect their voices by choosing habits for hydration, rest, warm up, and safe volume, and test a gentle warm up.
- SEL skill
- Weigh the consequences of daily habits and choose ones that protect your voice
- What it looks like
- Students practice responsible decision-making by weighing consequences and choosing healthy habits for their instrument.
- Content focus
- Caring for the voice
- Format
- Think write pair share
Responsible decision-making
Responsible decision-making means choosing in a caring, safe way by thinking about consequences for yourself and others. More responsible decision-making activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- MU:Pr5.1.E.HSI: Music, Ensembles, Performing, Presenting, or Producing, Anchor Standard 5 (Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Performing, Presenting, or Producing
- Level: High School Proficient
More responsible decision-making activities for Choir
- Choosing Repertoire Responsible decision-makingStudents explain criteria for selecting concert repertoire that balance skill level, audience, and personal meaning.
- Singing Another Culture's Music Responsible decision-makingStudents analyze a song from another culture and discuss how to perform it with accurate language, context, and credit rather than as a novelty.
- Evaluating Performances Responsible decision-makingStudents compare two recordings of the same piece and evaluate them with criteria instead of preference alone.
- Songs of Justice Responsible decision-makingStudents study songs from the civil rights and farmworker movements and discuss how music can influence change with integrity.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.