Key Stage One : Music : Farm Sounds : Lesson Three – Scratching


This music teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise playing a range of percussion instruments using different techniques to make scratching sounds. The class can identify which of the percussion sounds can represent different animals that live on a farm.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise playing a range of percussion instruments using different techniques to make scratching sounds

Learning Objectives

Investigate how to play untuned instruments to produce different sounds. Use the correct vocabulary to describe sounds produced by percussion instruments.

Learning Outcomes

I know how to play untuned instruments to create a scratching sound. I can use vocabulary to describe sounds made by playing percussion instruments.

Scratching

Teaching sequence to help the children practise playing a range of percussion instruments using different techniques to make scratching sounds

Farm Animals

Display posters to help the children identify and describe some of sounds that could be made by different animals on a farm

Farm Sounds Checklist

Template to help the children record and match farm animals to sounds produced using a range of percussion instruments

Scratching

Interactive activity to help the children practise playing a range of percussion instruments using different techniques to make scratching sounds

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise playing a range of percussion instruments using different techniques to make scratching sounds

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