Music / Foundation to Year 2

Curriculum content descriptions

Develop aural skills by exploring and imitating sounds, pitch and rhythm patterns using voice, movement and body percussion (ACAMUM080)

Elaborations
  • matching pitch to sing in tune and experimenting with speaking and singing voice to recognise the differences
  • imitating pitch and rhythm patterns to develop aural recognition skills, for example, echo clapping and call and response singing
  • using voices and body percussion to experiment with the elements of music to identify same and different, for example, sound and silence, fast and slow, long and short, high and low, loud and soft, happy and sad
  • recording music ideas using technologies and graphic notation
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Ear training

Downloadable

TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Foundation, Year 1, Year 2 The Arts

This webpage includes a unit uses the idea of track safe behaviours as the stimulus for Arts activities including the lines on a platform to explore artworks that use line as medium; dramatising safe behaviours through role play; and exploring sounds and music associated with trains in order to compose and perform music ...

Video

Can you clap the cymbal part from Carmen?

Get your clapping hands ready and join the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as they play some music from the opera Carmen, by composer Bizet. Follow along with host Paul Rissmann and see if you can keep up with the orchestra! How does this piece of music make you feel? Why do you think it has that effect?

Interactive

Dinosaur dig

Students learn about the world of dinosaurs through creative arts. They explore elements of dance to develop coordination skills through movement and actions, as well as music and drama to create characters. They also create a dinosaur themed artwork.