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QCA

ICT at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 3)

Unit 3B: Manipulating sound
Section 3: SHORT FOCUSED TASKS

QCA

Objectives

Children should learn:
  • key idea: that ICT can be used to organise and reorganise sounds
  • technique: to use icons to arrange musical phrases

Activities

Outcomes

Children:
  • Demonstrate a piece of music software in which an icon represents a musical phrase. The class discuss which pictures have musical phrases that sound happy/sad, fast/slow, or sound like the beginning/middle/end.
  • Together the class choose four pictures and create a musical sequence. They suggest lyrics to fit in with the melody.
  • After rehearsal the children perform and record the class song.
  • understand how musical phrases can be organised and reorganised using icons

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