Please note
This unit has now been replaced by the Year 2 unit *NEW* Contrasting dynamics (Theme: Space) and will no longer be updated.
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
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Unit resources
Assessment – Music Y2: Dynamics, timbre, tempo and motifs
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Y2: Space music knowledge organiser
A Knowledge organiser condensing the key
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Y2: Space music vocabulary display
Subject resources
Music: Long-term plans
A suggested order for teaching Music
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National curriculum mapping
This National curriculum coverage mapping document
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Music: Pupil progression of skills
Progression document showing how skills and
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Assessment
An assessment tool for monitoring the
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Equipment list
A list of essential and optional
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Unit vocabulary
A unit-by-unit list of musical vocabulary
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Music teacher skills videos
A collection of teacher skills videos
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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.
