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Lesson Two – Buses
This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify, describe and perform some of the special sounds with high or low pitches that can represent travelling on a bus to different places found around a city.
The class can explain and model how to play percussion instruments to produce a range of sounds at different pitches to show a bus journey such as the engine and bell.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify, describe and perform some of the special sounds with high or low pitches that can represent travelling on a bus to different places found around a city
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify some of the high and low sounds made by different percussion instruments and a worksheet to select and create some of the different sounds that might be heard on a bus using high and low pitches.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the sounds with high or low pitches that can represent travelling on a bus.
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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