Music For Learning: Unit 1 Year 2

Overview

In Year 2 Unit 1, What’s That Sound?, students develop an understanding of the elements of music through listening, exploring, responding, composing and performing activities.  

They focus on the sound production of a wide variety of instruments and how the timbre of a sound can be changed. They learn to express their own voice and ideas in performing.  

Students will explore a variety of repertoire to build their skills in music literacy by focusing on rhythmic units ta, titi and za, and the pitch sets s-m-l and s-m-l-d,

This unit aligns to the Australian Curriculum, Version 9:

• AC9AMUFE01 – Explore how and why the arts are important for people and communities.
• AC9AMUFD01 – Use play, arts knowledge, processes and/or skills to discover possibilities and develop ideas.
• AC9AMUFC01 – Create artworks that communicate ideas.
• AC9AMUFP01 – Share their artworks with audiences.
  

Learning objectives

• Revise the differences between music and noise
• Sing and read the new note: do
• Sing so, mi, la and do using Curwen hand signs
• Notate parts of known songs on a 3-line stave
• Recognise the difference between high and low sounds
• Aurally and visually recognise ta and titi
• Understand the ways sound is made on musical instruments
• Know about the didgeridoo and other First Nations instruments
• Perform and compose using body percussion
• Incorporate dynamics in performance and composition
• make and decorate a drum using recyclable materials
• show good behaviours for listening and performing.

Teaching resources

• 18 PowerPoint lessons
• Teaching Guides
• Student Workbook
• Assessments

Assessment

One assessment occurs in Week 8 and consists of:

• aurally and visually recognise rhythmic units
• label pitch with sol-fa names
• instrument characteristics
• performing in time showing dynamic level change