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Lesson Five – Sea Creatures

This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to devise and play a musical composition using percussion instruments to reflect some different animal sounds that can be heard at the seashore.
The class can select and perform a range of sounds to represent how different animals might move about in the sea to match some special vocabulary words.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to devise and play a musical composition using percussion instruments to reflect some different animal sounds that can be heard at the seashore
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and define vocabulary words that can be used to describe animals that live in the sea and a template to record sequences of pictures to represent how to play percussion instruments in a composition to match the movements of sea creatures.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and play a musical composition to reflect some different animal sounds that can be heard at the seashore.
This lesson is part of a music scheme of work to get the children to compose and perform a range of musical compositions to reflect movements of sea waves and animals that live on a beach and in the sea. 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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