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This unit has now been replaced by the Year 2 unit Contrasting dynamics (Theme: Space) and will no longer be updated.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Use their voice to create a variety of sounds.
- Use dynamics to create atmosphere.
- Correctly identify some instruments and changes in dynamics in a piece.
- Explain how the same instrument can have many different sounds.
- Compare two pieces of music using some musical vocabulary to describe the changes in tempo, dynamics and timbre.
- Successfully create and play a motif.
- Notate and write down their motif in some form.
Suggested prior learning
Lesson plans
Lesson 1: Space soundtrack
Lesson 2: Listening to space
Lesson 3: Comparing planets
Lesson 4: Planet motif
Lesson 5: Journey to space
Key skills
- Recognising timbre changes in
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Key knowledge
- To know that a
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Key vocabulary
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – Music Y2: Dynamics, timbre, tempo and motifs
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit ‘Dynamics, timbre, tempo and motifs’.
Vocabulary display: Dynamics, timbre, tempo and motifs
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Dynamics, timbre, tempo and motifs unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
English
Pupils should be taught to:
- Name the letters of the alphabet.
- Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates.
Build on the learning
Archived unit: On this island: British songs and sounds
Building on their experience of these space music lesson plans in exploring dynamics, timbre, tempo, and motifs, pupils create sounds that represent different British landscapes.
