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Lesson Two – Train Whistle
This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and produce matching sounds with long and short durations to represent some of the different parts that can be found on a train.
The class can play and sort sounds that can be made by different percussion instruments by their matching durations to show sounds that can represent a train’s movements.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and produce matching sounds with long and short durations to represent some of the different parts that can be found on a train
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and explain how to play percussion instruments at different durations and a set of cards to play and sort sounds made by percussion instruments into groups according to their duration for long and short sounds.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to produce long and short durations of sounds to represent different parts found on 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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