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Lesson Three – Emergency Vehicles
This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select, describe and represent some of the different sounds of emergency vehicles that might be heard in a city that use high and low pitch sounds.
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 that could be seen in a city.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select, describe and represent some of the different sounds of emergency vehicles that might be heard in a city that use high and low pitch sounds
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the sounds that might be made by different vehicles in a city and a set of cards to select and represent different sounds of emergency vehicles in a city that use high and low pitch sounds.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to represent sounds of emergency vehicles that might be heard in a city that use high and low pitch sounds.
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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