Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Identify the structure of a piece of music.
- Have an idea as to when there is one layer in a piece of music and when there are two.
- Play a sequence in the correct order in time with their partner.
- Have two contrasting rhythms being played together.
- Have two different melodies being played together.
- Have a complete piece of music with four different layers with an appropriate structure.
Suggested prior learning
Traditional instruments and improvisation (Theme: India)
Get startedLesson plans
Lesson 1: Pitter patter raindrops
Lesson 2: Rainforest body percussion
Lesson 3: The rhythm of the forest floor
Lesson 4: The loopy rainforest
Lesson 5: Sounds of the rainforest
Key skills
- Recognising the use and
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Key knowledge
- To know that deciding
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Key vocabulary
body percussion
combine
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Unit resources
Assessment – Music Y4: Body and tuned percussion
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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KS2 Rainforest Music knowledge organiser
A single-page summary of the Year
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KS2 Rainforest 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
None relevant to this unit.
Build on the learning
Rock and roll
Pupils build on their experience from the rainforest music lesson, where they created multi-layered percussion pieces, to help them perform rock and roll sequences with walking bass lines and hand jive actions.