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ICT at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 3)

Unit 3B: Manipulating sound
Section 1: SETTING THE SCENE

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Objectives

Children should learn:
  • key idea: that ICT can be used to select and control sounds

Activities

Outcomes

Children:
  • Create a set of musical cards which have pictures of various instruments whose sounds are represented on an electric keyboard.
  • Introduce children to the sounds and encourage them to listen carefully to the quality of sounds (timbre) and describe them using a musical and expressive vocabulary.
  • Ask children to take it in turns to select and play the musical sounds they have chosen on the keyboard.
  • recognise that an electronic keyboard can be used to select and control sounds

Sections in this unit

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1. SETTING THE SCENE
2. SHORT FOCUSED TASKS
3. SHORT FOCUSED TASKS
4. SHORT FOCUSED TASKS
5. INTEGRATED TASK