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Music at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 3/4)

Unit 9: Animal magic - Exploring descriptive sounds

QCA
About this unit

This unit develops children's ability to create, perform and analyse short descriptive compositions that combine sounds, movements and words.

In this unit, children learn to recognise how sounds can be used to describe different things, eg animals. Using this understanding, they create their own music in pairs, add movement and narration and rehearse towards a final performance for others. During the unit they explore how the elements of pitch, duration, dynamics and tempo can be combined to describe different sounds, eg animal sounds.

This unit should be revisited using different stimuli, eg insects, machines.


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: how can music describe different animals?
2. Exploration: using sounds descriptively
3. Bringing it all together