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Lesson Six – Train Journey
This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and combine some long and short duration sounds to compose a piece of music representing the different movements and actions of a train.
The class can identify and describe how to play each percussion instrument to create long and short sounds with matching durations to describe travelling somewhere on a train journey.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and combine some long and short duration sounds to compose a piece of music representing the different movements and actions of a train
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different sounds that could be heard during a train journey and a set of cards to select and compose rhythm patterns using long and short sounds to represent different sounds to illustrate what could happen when going somewhere by train.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to combine long and short sounds to compose a piece of music representing the movement of a train.
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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