Lesson Planning

Learn about the differences between your grandparents’ and parents’ experience of music and how this would have differed to today’s experience. Listen to some popular songs of the time.

Teaching Outcomes
To show awareness of changes over the life-time of their parents.
Music: Identify the pulse in pieces of music; join in together.
To keep time with music through dance and rehearse and perform disco moves!

Children will:

• Identify the pulse and join in with the beat.
• Rehearse prescribed dance moves.
• Accompany music by dancing to the pulse or rhythm.
• Answer specific questions about their topic area.
• Place changes accurately on a time-line.