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Lesson One – Vehicle Sounds

This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify, describe and sort some of the different sounds that might be heard in a city into groups by their musical pitches for high and low.
The class can practise using percussion instruments to replicate some of the special sounds that might be made by vehicles which could be travelling around a city location.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify, describe and sort some of the different sounds that might be heard in a city into groups by their musical pitches for high and low
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the high and low sounds that might be made by different vehicles and a set of cards to select and categorise high and low sounds that might be made by some of the different vehicles travelling around a city location.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to sort some of the sounds that might be heard in a city into groups by their musical pitches.
This lesson is part of a music scheme of work to get the children to practise describing, composing and playing different sounds using high and low pitches to represent vehicles and locations as part of a city 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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