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This unit has now been replaced by the Year 2 unit Contrasting dynamics (Theme: Space). Kapow no longer updates these lessons, and they may not reflect the national curriculum or current guidance. They remain a permanent part of your subscription and will continue to be available for reference and use. We recommend that you explore the new versions of the lessons.
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
accuracy
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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.
