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Music at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 1/2)

Unit 6: What's the score? - Exploring instruments and symbols

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About this unit

This unit develops children's ability to recognise different ways sounds are made and changed and to name, and know how to play, a variety of classroom instruments.

During this unit children explore classroom instruments and learn that instruments that make sounds in similar ways can be grouped into families. They create symbols that represent the various ways an instrument can be played and use these to help create a sequence of sounds. This unit should be revisited during the key stage.


Sections in this unit

This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
1. Introduction: What sounds can be made by musical instruments?
2. Exploration: What sounds can we make? (1)
3. Exploration: What sounds can we make? (2)
4. Exploration: What sounds can we make? (3)
5. Exploration: What sounds can we make? (4)
6. Exploration: What sounds can we make? (5)
7. Bringing it all together: How can we use these different sounds made on classroom instruments?