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Lesson Five – Planet Sounds
This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and create short pieces of music to represent one of the planets in the Solar System to reflect musical compositions by Gustav Holst.
The class can suggest some of the different sounds that might be heard when visiting the surface of a specific planet that can be replicated when playing percussion instruments.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and create short pieces of music to represent one of the planets in the Solar System to reflect musical compositions by Gustav Holst
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of display posters to identify and describe some of the sounds that could be heard when visiting different planets in the Solar System and a template to record the identified sounds for one planet using picture clues and vocabulary words.
The interactive presentation gets the children to identify and describe how to play percussion instruments to match some of the sounds that might be heard when visiting a planet in the Solar System.
This lesson is part of a music scheme of work to get the children to investigate the style and structure of different compositions by a famous musician and create sounds to represent a particular place or landscape. There are teaching activities for shared learning, activity worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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