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Lesson Five – Planets

This music teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to devise and perform musical compositions using tuned instruments to represent different planets that can be found in the Solar System.
The class can use tuned instruments to produce compositions on the theme of angry or peaceful to represent the mood or feeling of a specific planet.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to devise and perform musical compositions using tuned instruments to represent different planets that can be found in the Solar System
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to explain how to play different forms of music to match a planet in the Solar System and a template to select and record vocabulary words that can be used to describe different types of music to represent a planet in the Solar System.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to devise and perform musical compositions using tuned instruments to represent different planets.
This lesson is part of a music scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and compose rhythm patterns and musical compositions to illustrate moods and objects connected to space when visiting other planets. 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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