Key Learning Objective: To perform, evaluate and celebrate the composition created this term. Starter activity: Vocal warm up with aircraft sounds, going to the extremes of high and low register, working on dynamic contrasts. Then perform ‘Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines’ as a class and record. Main activity: Performing and evaluation, each group to rehearse and […]
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Year 5, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objective: To refine and improve our compositions for the Air Fiesta project. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise, play the recordings of the 10-20 second performances from last week. Can pupils identify which aircraft is being represented and use music vocabulary to explain why they think this. Main activity: Pupils to make improvements to their compositions so […]
Year 5, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 4
Key Learning Objective: To combine pitch, dynamics and tempo to create a composition. Starter activity: Listen to twenty seconds of each of the three pieces studied over the previous three weeks, asking pupils to form sentences to describe what they have heard in each using vocabulary learnt so far (pitch, tempo and dynamics.) Main activities: To […]
Year 5, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 3
Key Learning Objective: To identify, follow and conduct tempo changes. Additional Learning Objective: To understand how composers use tempo to create effects. Starter activity: Listening and discussion based on two aircraft; the Bristol Box Kite and Concorde. Focus on how the difference in speed between the two aircraft could be represented musically. Main activities: To be […]
Year 5, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 2
Key Learning Objective: To organise pitch to create the effect of flight. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise, based on the work ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’ by Rimsky Korsakov written in 1899-1900. Focus on the movement of the pitch and the shape it creates. Record this activity for evidence. Main activities: To be recorded. Activity One: […]
Year 5, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 1
Key Learning Objective: To explore dynamics through singing and playing and link with aircraft. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise based on a range of aircraft taking off. Create the sounds of aircraft with everyones voices. Record this activity as evidence. Main activities: To be recorded. Activity One: Using hand-held percussion instruments, the class to create the soundscape […]
Year 3, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objective: To perform and evaluate and complete the Hot Air Balloon composition. Additional Learning Objective: To sing expressively. Starter activity: Rehearse then perform Part one of the ‘Hot Air Balloon song’ with expression. Main activity: Brief rehearsal time with original scores, with a view to performing the final compositions. Plenary: Listen to the final performances […]
Year 3, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objective: To complete composing the soundscape and notate on graphic score. Additional Learning Objective: To choose a location and represent it through notated symbols and with a particular dynamic. Starter activity: Revisit ‘Hot Air Balloon song’, focusing on the direction of the melody. Does it move in steps or leaps? Main activity: Recap […]
Year 3, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 3
Key Learning Objectives: To create a soundscape with an identifiable structure. Starter activity: One group to perform their soundscape from the previous lesson. Response to ask why certain aspects of the performance are not the same as the previous lessons performance. Main activity: Introduce the concept of notation, using the idea of a graphic score to […]
Year 3, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 2
Key Learning Objectives: To create a soundscape with an identifiable structure. Starter activity: Introduction to the concept of structure, demonstrating its importance through the scenario of a telephone call. Main activity: Create a whole class soundscape of a hot air balloon taking off. Each group to be designated one section of the soundscape structure. Plenary: Performance opportunity, groups […]