Lesson One – Percussion Sounds

This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and model some of the different ways of playing percussion instruments to create a range of sounds representing farm objects and places.

The class can identify and perform the correct ways of playing different percussion instruments that could represent some of the special animals that live on a farm.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and model some of the different ways of playing percussion instruments to create a range of sounds representing farm objects and places

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to describe ways of playing a range of percussion instruments to make different sounds and a set of cards to choose ways to make sounds using percussion instruments such as shaking, tapping and scratching.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore different ways of playing percussion instruments to create a range of sounds to represent farm objects and places.

This lesson is part of a music scheme of work to get the children to select and practise different ways of playing a range of percussion instruments to represent some of the sounds that could be heard on a farm. 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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