Grade: |
Years 3-4 |
KLA: |
Music |
Topic: |
Instruments from around
the world. |
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Overview: |
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International music
is very diverse and uses a wide array of instruments. In this
lesson, students research instruments that are unique to countries
or communities from across the world. |
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Key Learning Area
Outcomes: |
- Music Outcomes:
- Listens to a range of repertoire
and discuss features of the music and the differences between
different repertoire.
- Discusses the role of music in a
range of cultural contexts, e.g. ceremonial and sacred events,
storytelling.
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Additional Key
Learning Area Outcomes: |
- English Outcomes:
- Gathers information from
resources including the World Wide Web.
- Reads independently a wide
range of texts on increasingly challenging topics and
justifies own interpretation of ideas, information and
events.
- Produces texts clearly,
effectively and accurately, using the sentence structure,
grammatical features and punctuation conventions of the text
type.
- Demonstrates basic desktop
publishing skills on the computer.
- Social Studies Outcomes:
- Explores the customs and
traditions of communities around the world.
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Application: |
- Microsoft®
PowerPoint 2003
- Microsoft®
Student 2006
- Microsoft®
Internet Explorer
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Additional
Technology: |
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Teacher Notes: |
- Brainstorm and list all the different instruments that your
students can think of. Categorise these instruments according to
the family that they belong to e.g. the violin is a member of
string family.
- You may like to introduce students to international
instruments by using the Interactive World Music game found on
Microsoft® Student 2006. Alternatively, Microsoft® Encarta has a
broad range of articles, multimedia files and games about
instruments from around the world.
- Using the list of instruments resource sheet, ask students
to select an instrument to research.
Instruments from around the world
resource sheet
- Students use the Internet, Microsoft® Encarta and other
resource material to research their instrument. Demonstrate how
to use a search engine to find information, images and sound
files. Instruct students in the procedure for saving images and
sound clips to file:
- To save an image from the Internet:
- Place your cursor over the image and right click the
mouse.
- From the menu of options, select Save Picture.
- Locate and select the folder that you would like to
save your image to, and click Save.
- To save a sound clip from the Internet:
- Place your cursor on the link to the sound file.
- Right click the mouse and select Save Target As
- Locate and select the folder that you would like to
save your image to, and click Save.
- Students present their information, images and sound files
in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. You may like to collate
these presentations an place on the school intranet or in the
library for other students to view.
Download sample file
- You may like to print and
distribute the rubrics assessment guide to assist students in
understanding the task and how it will be assessed:
Rubrics marking criteria template
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Suggested Websites: |
Instruments around the world
Musical
instruments
World
instruments
Instruments
from around the globe
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Student Activity: |
- There are hundreds of musical instruments, some have been
around for hundreds of years. List all the different instruments
that you can think of. Did you know that instruments have
families that they belong to? The violin and cello are both
members of the string family. An instrument is classified by how
it is played such as the string family or what it is made of
such as the brass family. Take the list of instruments that you
brainstormed, and categorise it according to what family it
comes from.
- Have you ever heard the sound of a sitar, the melody of a
marimba or the beat of a timbale? These are all international
instruments with their own unique sounds. Your teacher will give
you a list of international instruments and their country of
origin. Select one instrument from the list to research and
learn about.
- Research your chosen instrument using Microsoft® Encarta, the
Internet and books from the library. Your teacher will show you
how to save an image of your instrument from the web. If
possible, you should also save a sound file of your instrument.
Your teacher will show you how to do this.
Research
Guide
- Now that you have researched your image and saved related
images and sound files, it's time to present your information.
Using Microsoft® PowerPoint®, create an opening slide to introduce
your instrument. When formatting your slides, think about things
like colour. Are there particular colours or patterns that are
relevant to the country or community that your instrument
originates from?
- Insert a second slide and
present your researched information:
- Insert a third slide and import
an image of your instrument. Import your saved sound file by
selecting Insert> Movies and Sounds> Sound from File.
Locate your saved sound file and click OK. When the
dialogue box appears, you will be asked to how you want the
sound file to start. Select Automatically:
When this slide is viewed, the
sound file will play immediately:
- Enjoy learning, looking and listening to musical instruments
from around the world!
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Extension: |
Once students have completed
their multimedia PowerPoint® presentation, you may like to
hyperlink each project to a map of the world. This is a great way to
collate your students work in an interactive format. Before you
begin, you will need to save an image of a world map to file.
See
Sample File (needs sound)
Creating an Interactive
Map of the World
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Save all the PowerPoint®
presentations to one folder.
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Open a new Microsoft PowerPoint
document.
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Select Format> Background.
Activate the drop down menu, and select Fill Effects.
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Click the Picture tab
then click Select Picture. Locate your image of the world
map from the folder directory then click Insert. Click
OK, then click Apply.
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We are now going to create
invisible hyperlinks from countries on the world map to the
relevant PowerPoint® presentations. From the drawing toolbar,
select the Rectangle tool and draw a rectangle over the
country that you would like to create the hyperlink from:
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While the
rectangle is highlighted, select Insert> Hyperlink. When
the hyperlink dialogue box opens, select Existing File or Web
Page. Browse through the directory of folders to locate your
saved PowerPoint® presentations, select the presentation you
would like to link to:
Click Screen
Tip and type in the name of the instrument that comes from
that country. When the file is viewed as a running presentation,
when the cursor runs over the country, the screen tip will
appear to let the user know that their is a hyperlink there.
Test your
hyperlink by running your presentation is Slide Show view by
using the F5 key on the keyboard.
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Now to make the
hyperlink invisible. Place your cursor on the rectangle and
right click the mouse. From the menu of options select Format
AutoShape. Change the Colour to No Fill and
the Line Colour to No Line then click OK.
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Continue
creating invisible hyperlinks from your world map to students
PowerPoint® presentations.
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This
hyperlinked presentation would make a wonderful teaching
resource to use on an Interactive Whiteboard, otherwise, allow
students time in the computer lab to view the completed
presentation. For more on Interactive Whiteboards go to
www.iwb.net.au
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Assessment: |
You may like to use the following template to record student
achievement:
Tracking
sheet
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