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 […]
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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 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 […]