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Lesson Five – Train Station
This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate some of the different ways of playing tuned and untuned instruments to create long and short sounds that can represent a train station location.
The class can select and produce rhythm patterns to match the syllables in word phrases for some of the different sounds that might be made by a train.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate some of the different ways of playing tuned and untuned instruments to create long and short sounds that can represent a train station location
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to practise playing different word phrases using long and short durations to match train sounds and a set of cards to select and play word phrases to represent a train using sounds with long and short durations.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore different ways of playing instruments to create long and short sounds that can represent a station location.
This lesson is part of a music scheme of work to get the children to practise composing and playing different sounds and rhythm patterns to represent the movement of a train using long and short durations. 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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