Music For Learning: Unit 2 Year 5

Overview

In Year 5 Unit 2, The Science of Music, students build their skills in music literacy, while learning to express their own voice and ideas in performing. They focus on repertoire associated with traditional/folk, popular and theatre-based dance to build on their skills in aurally and visually recognising ta, titi, za, ta-a, tikatika, ti-tika and tika-ti as well as the pitch sets including combinations of following: s,-l,-d-r-m-f-s-l-d’.

It aligns to the Australian Curriculum, Version 9:

• AC9AMU6E01 – Explore the ways that the elements of music are combined in music across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts.
• AC9AMU6E02 – Explore ways First Nations Australians use music to continue and revitalise culture.
• AC9AMU6D01 – Develop listening/aural skills and skills for manipulating elements of music to achieve expressive effects when composing, singing and playing instruments.
• AC9AMU6C01 – Manipulate elements of music and use compositional devices to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning when composing and practising music for performance, and notate, document and/or record the music they compose.
• AC9AMU6P01 – Perform music in a range of forms they have learnt and/or composed in informal and/or formal settings.

Learning objectives

Lesson 1 Series:

• Visually and aurally identify simple time rhythms including tikatika, ti-tika and tika-ti.
• Notate rhythms in simple triple time.
• Introduce fa to their knowledge and understanding of sol-fa.
• Revise s, and l,.
• Learn the key of F Major and the function of a flat.
• Devise and explain how movement and tempo can tell a story.
• Analyse and evaluate ‘Moth’ by Bangarra Dance Theatre.
• Learn common musical terms for tempo.
• Sing in unison and in a 3 or 4-part round.
• Complete a performing and presenting assessment based on the folk song, ‘Cedar Swamp’.

Teaching resources

• Nine PowerPoint lessons with all video embedded (Lesson 1 Series only)
• Teaching Guide
• Teaching Resources
• Teaching Assessment Book
• Student Workbook
• Student Assessment Book

Assessment

End-of-Unit Assessment
The End-of-Unit Assessment occurs in Week 8 of the Lesson 1 Series. It consists of a performing and presenting task in which students:

• explain how movement can tell a story through music
• identify and give information about a composer
• revise animal movement with music
• perform movement with music for peers.