Learning objective
- To program music for a specific purpose.
Success criteria
- I can combine known commands.
- I can code music
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National curriculum
Computing
Pupils should be taught to:
- Design,
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Cross-curricular links
Music
Pupils should be taught to:
- Improvise
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
1: Lesson plan
An area for you to put useful resources from the previous lesson
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Adaptive teaching
Pupils needing extra support
Should take the example live loop included here and change the numbers/synths accordingly.
Pupils working at greater depth
Should experiment with code and change it whilst it is playing; should use multiple workspaces or ‘Buffers’ to test out different sections of code to add.
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: coding a piece of music that
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Vocabulary definitions
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buffer
When a computer buffers information or buffers, it stores it in its memory while dealing with it.
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live code
Seeing a program work as it is built.
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In this unit
Maintained by: Kapow Primary team
Last update: 27th October, 2023
