# Curriculum alignment — Sound Detective

**Checked:** 1 November 2026. This evidence map is not a formal provincial approval. The current New Brunswick framework pages expose Grade → Strand → Big Idea → Achievement Indicator paths, but no numeric outcome IDs or page numbers. The full hierarchy path is used as the identifier below.

- **Direct connection — Grade 3 → Create → Composition → Achievement Indicator:** “Improvise, compose, and perform (alone and with others) short melodies and rhythms using voice and/or instrument(s).” Students compose and perform a four-beat rhythm using voice or gentle body percussion. This directly supports that activity, not the full Grade 3 curriculum.
- **Partial connection — Grade 4 → Create → Application and Performance → Achievement Indicator:** “Create and perform rhythms accurately using ti and eighth rest.” The lesson uses two even sounds in one beat and one silent beat, but does not teach the named ti syllable or eighth-rest notation.
- **Unsupported as written — Grade 5 → Create → Application and Performance → Achievement Indicators:** “Create and perform rhythms accurately using dotted quarter note – eighth note, and eighth note–quarter note-eighth note”; “Perform accurately in 6/8 metre”; and “Demonstrate syncopation with body percussion and/or instruments.” Those skills are not taught in this lesson. Grades 3–5 is the lesson's stated audience range, not a claim that it covers every outcome across those grades.
- **Unverified — younger-child adaptations:** the lesson source includes entry points and participation choices, but the consulted framework pages do not certify this specific lesson or its younger-child adaptations.
- **Unverified source:** the older Government of New Brunswick *Music Education: Kindergarten to Grade 5* PDF was listed in the curriculum source index but could not be opened here; no outcome from that PDF is claimed.

Sources consulted:

1. Government of New Brunswick, *Elementary Music*, Grade 3–5: https://curriculum.nbed.ca/learning-areas/elementary-block/music/
2. Government of New Brunswick, *Primary Music*, Kindergarten–Grade 2: https://curriculum.nbed.ca/learning-areas/primary-block/music/
3. Government of New Brunswick, *Music Education: Kindergarten to Grade 5* (PDF; direct retrieval unavailable, no outcome cited): https://www2.gnb.ca/content/dam/gnb/Departments/ed/pdf/K12/curric/Music/MusicEducation-K-5.pdf