*New* Programming 1: Music
Applying programming skills to create a soundtrack for a particular genre.
Please note
Scratch is a project of the Scratch Foundation, in collaboration with the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is available for free at https://scratch.mit.edu.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Recognise that Scratch is a coding application with music elements.
- Predict the effects of different code blocks and explain discoveries from tinkering.
- Code a soundtrack using sound blocks, loops and nested loops to enhance a scene.
- Use loops to simplify a program and understand that nested loops can repeat a rhythm or pattern.
- Decompose a program into smaller parts and remix existing code in new projects.
- Identify errors in a program, debug them and evaluate the effectiveness of a program.
Suggested prior learning
*New* Programming 1: Further coding with Scratch
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Tinkering with Scratch music elements
Lesson 2: Scratch soundtracks
Lesson 3: Planning a soundtrack
Lesson 4: Programming a soundtrack
Lesson 5: Evaluating a soundtrack
Key skills
- Recognising examples of programming
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Key knowledge
To know:
- Programmers often save
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Key vocabulary
adapt
code
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Unit resources
Knowledge Organiser – Computing Y5: *New* Programming: Music
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit ‘*New* Programming 1: Music’.
Vocabulary display – Computing Y5: *New* Programming music
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit '*New* Programming 1: Music'.
Cross-curricular opportunities
Music.
English: Reading – Comprehension.
Suggested next steps
Programming 2: Micro:bit
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