Music For Learning: Unit 1 Year 3

Overview

In Year 3 Unit 1, Out of this World, students develop an understanding of the elements of music through listening, exploring, responding, composing and performing activities. They focus on repertoire written about our solar system and learn how to perform and compose an ostinato. Students explore a variety of repertoire to build their skills in music literacy with a focus on rhythmic units ta, titi, za, ta-a and pitch sets d-r-m and d-r-m-s-l while learning to express their own voice and ideas in performing.  

This unit aligns to the Australian Curriculum, Version 9:

• AC9AMU4E01 – Explore where, why and how music is composed and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts.
• AC9AMU4E02 – Explore how First Nations Australians use music to communicate their connection to and responsibility for Country/Place.
• AC9AMU4D01 – Develop listening skills and skills manipulating elements of music when singing and playing instruments.
• AC9AMU4C01 – Manipulate elements of music to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning when composing and practising for performance.
• AC9AMU4P01 – Sing and play music they have learnt and/or composed in informal settings.
  

Learning objectives

• Sing in unison in tune.
• Sing while performing a rhythmic ostinato.
• Draw a melodic contour.
• Notate the rhythm and solfa of a known song.
• Visually and aurally recognise new rhythm: ta-a.
• Draw a treble clef and name the notes on the lines and in the spaces.
• Notate moveable do, re and mi on the treble stave.
• Convert sol-fa to letter names on the treble stave.
• Know that melodies can be high or low.
• Explain how music can tell a story.
• Apply musical elements to a piece of music.
• Analyse a First Nation’s piece of music.
• Compare the musical elements in two pieces of music.

Teaching resources

• 18 PowerPoint lessons
• Teaching Guides
• Student Workbook
• Assessment Task Sheet

Assessment

One assessment occurs in Week 8, consisting of:

• Matching rhythmic patterns and identifying note lengths.
• Recognising notes and sol-fa on the treble stave.
• Performing a known song.