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.