Lesson Four – Beaches

This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore how to create and play some different sounds using percussion instruments to represent and model the movement of waves landing on a beach.

The class can practise using symbols to build a simple musical score to follow when performing the composition using percussion instruments to represent sea waves.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to create and play some different sounds using percussion instruments to represent and model the movement of waves landing on a beach

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and define vocabulary that can be used to describe how waves land on a beach and a template to record sequences of pictures to represent how to play percussion instruments in a composition when modelling the movement of sea waves.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore and play some different sounds to represent the movement of waves landing on a beach when using percussion instruments.

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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