Topic 5: Lesson Planning Music and Visual Arts

30th July 2018

According to Unit Content and a friend's notes this week was about lesson planning, music and visual arts. I missed out on this tutorial so most of my information are based on unit contents, personal readings, and a friend's notes.

Music:

Warm Up Activity:

• Students listen to a montage of  diverse cultural music. 

• And respond to the music by making movements that is appropriate to the flow of music

• Then students discuss adjectives to describe the musical moods of each piece.

Activity 1: Listening

• Students listen to African music, Indigenous 

Australian music and American Jazz.

• They discussed about the elements of music and how meaning is convey through the music (culturally).

• Then they did a group activity where each group come up with a musical piece that incorporate both musical features and vocal.

Things to know:

• Listening is fundamental to all musical activities (but for other KLAs as well)

• Listening enhance aural development and communication skills

Students learn to: 

• Recognise the presence or absence of sound 

• Distinguish between sounds 

• Identify and classify sounds 

• Remember sounds 

• Recall sequences of sounds 

• Imagine and predict sounds.

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