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Lesson Six – Harbour Sounds
This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and illustrate some of the different ways of playing percussion instruments to alter their pitch to show special sounds that might be heard in a harbour location.
The class can practise composing and playing different sounds with high and low pitches to represent a particular ship or boat such as a tugboat or a cargo container ship.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and illustrate some of the different ways of playing percussion instruments to alter their pitch to show special sounds that might be heard in a harbour location
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the sounds that can be made by different ships and a set of cards to devise and perform a range of sounds that can be made by ships and boats when in a harbour location.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and illustrate different ways of playing percussion instruments to alter their pitch to show sounds that might be heard in a harbour.
This lesson is part of a music scheme of work to get the children to select, compose and play some of the different sounds using high and low pitches that can be made by ships and boats when at sea and in harbours. 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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