Lesson Six – Rainforest Performance
This music teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to perform and evaluate musical compositions to reflect some of the different special rhythms and sounds that might be heard in a rainforest location.
The class can suggest and model how to use different percussion instruments to better represent life that can be seen in a rainforest habitat.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to perform and evaluate musical compositions to reflect some of the different special rhythms and sounds that might be heard in a rainforest location
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to describe sounds that can be used to represent different animals living in a rainforest and identify vocabulary that can be used to describe sounds and a template to evaluate compositions used to represent rhythms and sounds that might be heard in a rainforest location.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to perform and evaluate compositions to reflect rhythms and sounds that might be heard in a rainforest.
This lesson is part of a music scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and compose a selection of rhythm patterns to use in musical compositions reflecting and illustrating life in a rainforest location. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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