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Lesson Four – Train Tracks

This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise some of the different ways of playing tuned and untuned instruments to represent the sound of a train moving along a set of railway tracks.
The class can identify and model how to play sounds with long and short durations when performing each rhythm pattern that represents the movements of a train.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise some of the different ways of playing tuned and untuned instruments to represent the sound of a train moving along a set of railway tracks
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to practise playing different rhythm patterns using long and short sounds and a set of cards to select and play rhythm patterns using long and short sounds to represent the movement of a train down the tracks.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore different ways of playing instruments to represent the sound of a train along a set of railway tracks.
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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