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Lesson Six – City Journey

This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to compose and perform a musical composition using high and low pitched sounds to represent a range of special locations that can be visited in a city.
The class can explain and model how to play percussion instruments to produce a range of sounds at high and low pitches to match different vehicles and places found in each city location.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to compose and perform a musical composition using high and low pitched sounds to represent a range of special locations that can be visited in a city
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the sounds with a high and low pitch that might be heard in different locations and a set of cards to select and create high and low pitched sounds to match different locations in a city.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose and perform a musical composition using high and low sounds to represent city locations.
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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