Lesson Two – Rainforest Rhythms
This music teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and model different ways of playing and recording a range of rhythm patterns to reflect a rainforest location and some of the animals that live in these regions in the world.
The class can identify and match beats in a rhythm pattern to the syllables in different word phrases that can be used to describe what makes a rainforest habitat special.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and model different ways of playing and recording a range of rhythm patterns to reflect a rainforest location and some of the animals that live in these regions in the world
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to practise performing different word phrases to represent sounds that might be heard in a rainforest and a worksheet to devise and play rhythm patterns to represent different sounds related to animals that can be found living in a rainforest.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore different ways of playing and recording rhythm patterns to reflect what makes a rainforest location special.
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.
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