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Lesson Three – Engine Sounds
This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate and perform some of the special ways of playing a range of instruments to produce long and short sounds representing different parts of a train.
The class can describe how to play each percussion instrument to create sounds with matching durations to illustrate what can be heard when travelling on a train journey.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate and perform some of the special ways of playing a range of instruments to produce long and short sounds representing different parts of a train
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to explain how to play percussion instruments to replicate sounds with different durations and a set of cards to play percussion instruments to represent some of the sounds made by a train with long and short durations.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore different ways of playing a range of instruments to produce long and short sounds representing parts 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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