Music for Learning - Unit 2

Foundation Year Unit 2: The Weather is a Music unit for Foundation Year students. It aligns to the Australian Curriculum Content Description:  

• 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.

Year Foundation Lesson 1 Series: 

Students will: 

• know that letters, numbers, signs and music notes are all symbols used for reading 
• learn to sing s and m in tune 
• learn to show the correct body ladder positions for s and m 
• learn to notate the rhythm of ‘Rain, Rain’ and ‘Snail, Snail’ 
• learn to tap the beat and clap the rhythm 
• recognise the rhythm of their own name 
• learn to compose a rhythm using ta and titi 
• match simple words to ta and titi 
• use their speaking voice to memorise and respond to a rhyme 
• know the ways music can tell a story about the weather 
• make a rain stick and perform a weather soundscape 

Year Foundation Lesson 2 Series: 

Students will: 

• learn to sing songs about the weather in tune 
• show the shape of melodies in the air 
• compose and perform a rhythm using body percussion 
• demonstrate a strong beat when singing and performing 
• learn how to sing in different groups in a choir formation 
• learn and show good behaviours for performing 
• learn how to rehearse for a performance 

End-of-Unit Assessment 

The End-of-Unit 

Assessment occurs at the end of the unit and usually includes a performing, composing or responding task. Composing tasks are usually completed progressively throughout the unit, and assessed at the end. All assessment resources are contained within the teaching resources.  

Year 1 Unit 2: Forces of Nature is a Music unit for Year 1 students. It aligns to the Australian Curriculum Content Description:

• AC9AMU2E01  

Explore where, why and how people across cultures, communities and/or other contexts experience music. 

• AC9AMU2E02 

Explore examples of music composed and/or performance by First Nations Australians  

• AC9AMU2D01  

Developing listening skills and skills for singing and playing instruments.  

• AC9AMU2C01  

Select and combine elements of music when composing and practising music for performance.  

• AC9AMU2P01  

Sing and play music in informal settings.

Year 1 Lesson 1 Series: 

Students will: 

• notate s-m-l on the 3-line stave 
• show s-m-l with their body ladder when singing 
• understand connections between song lyrics and meaning 
• explore how the music elements can show the feeling of a particular season 
• order rhythms to match the structure of a known song 
• read and perform graphic notation 
• use body percussion patterns and actions with a partner to show the beat 
• notate the pitch and rhythm for ‘Plainsies Clapsies’ and ‘Bluebells’ 
• link learning to Science: push and pull 

Year 1 Lesson 2 Series: 

Students will: 

• sing in tune in unison and keep a steady beat 
• practice using clear diction when singing
• compose and then perform a body percussion ostinato 
• memorise lyrics, actions and storyline to perform a cumulative song 
• know that melodies can have different high and low shapes 
• learn and show good behaviours for performing 
• learn how to rehearse for a performance 
• perform songs about nature for an audience 

End-of-Unit Assessment 

The End-of-Unit 

Assessment occurs at the end of the unit and usually includes a performing, composing or responding task. Composing tasks are usually completed progressively throughout the unit, and assessed at the end. All assessment resources are contained within the teaching resources.

Year 4 Unit 2: Instruments of the Orchestra is a Music unit for Year 4 students. It aligns to the Australian Curriculum Content Description:

• 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.

Year 4 Lesson 1 Series: 

Students will: 

• identify and sing the minor pentatonic scale 
• learn to identify and sing s, 
• sing in unison and in up to 3 parts 
• sing folksongs in words, time names and sol-fa 
• distinguish between major and minor tonalities 
• notate rhythms in simple triple and simple quadruple time  
• visually and aurally identify orchestral instruments, their family, mode of sound production and their timbre 
• create a musical structure using a known song
• complete an aural and written assessment task

Year 4 Lesson 2 Series 

Students will: 

• sing in unison and in a round  
• learn to recognize s, and l, when they see it and hear it 
• read and perform rhythms in simple time signatures 
• memorise, rehearse and perform ‘The Instrument Song,’ ‘The Riddle Song,’ ‘The Birch Tree’ and ‘Yonder Mountain.’ 
• be introduced to the concept of a leitmotif and how character can be represented in music 
• practice good performing behaviours 

End-of-Unit Assessment 

The End-of-Unit 

Assessment occurs at the end of the unit and usually includes a performing, composing or responding task. Composing tasks are usually completed progressively throughout the unit, and assessed at the end. All assessment resources are contained within the teaching resources.

Year 5 Unit 2: Music and Dance is a Music unit for Year 5 students. It aligns to the Australian Curriculum Content Description:

• AC9AMU6E01  

Explore the ways that the elements of music are combined in music across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts. 

• AC9AMU6E02 

Explore ways First Nations Australians use music to continue and revitalise culture. 

• AC9AMU6D01  

Develop listening/aural skills and skills for manipulating elements of music to achieve expressive effects when composition, singing, and playing instruments. 

• AC9AMU6C01  

Manipulate elements of music and use compositional devices to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning when composing and practising music for performance, and notate, document and/or record the music they compose. 

• AC9AMU46P01  

Perform music in a range of forms they have learnt and/or composed in informal and/or formal settings.

Year 5 Lesson 1 Series: 

Students will: 

• visually and aurally identify simple time rhythms including tikatika, ti-tika and tika-ti 
• notate rhythms in simple triple time 
• introduce fa to their knowledge and understanding of sol-fa 
• revise s, and l, 
• learn the key of F Major and the function of a flat 
• devise and explain how movement and tempo can tell a story 
• analyse and evaluate ‘Moth’ by Bangarra Dance Theatre 
• learn the musical terms for tempo 
• sing in unison and in a 3 or 4-part round 
• complete a performing and presenting assessment based on the folk song, ‘Cedar Swamp’ 

Year 5 Lesson 2 Series: 

Students will: 

• learn a new rhythmic unit: tim-ka 
• notate and aurally and visually identify an anacrusis 
• memorise an American Appalachian circle dance and movement for ‘Nigun Atik’ 
• explore dances of our First Nations Peoples 
• sing and perform ‘Oh, How Lovely,’ ‘Do Se So,’ ‘Alligator Hedgehog,’ and ‘Old Joe Clark’ 
• learn to memorise and perform in different formations 

End-of-Unit Assessment 

The End-of-Unit 

Assessment occurs at the end of the unit and usually includes a performing, composing or responding task. Composing tasks are usually completed progressively throughout the unit, and assessed at the end. All assessment resources are contained within the teaching resources.