Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to practise performing different four and eight beat rhythm patterns and worksheets to select and perform four beat rhythm patterns for support ability levels and eight beat rhythm patterns for core and extension ability levels to represent some of the animals that live in a rainforest habitat.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore ways of playing and recording different four and eight beat rhythms to represent animals that live in a rainforest.

This lesson is part of a music scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and compose a selection of rhythm patterns to use in musical compositions reflecting and illustrating life in a rainforest location. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.