Mum and Dad's music: dance to the beat

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Changes within Living Memory Music

Objectives

History

  • Post war – 1970s, 1980s and 1990s: Learn about changes to the way of life of people since 1945.
  • Learn about the changes in one aspect (dance) of British life since 1945.
  • Understand how personal memories can be used to find out about the past.

Music

  • Identify the pulse in pieces of music.
  • Join in together.

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.

You Will Need

  • Time-line (from last lesson)
  • White-board & pens
  • Space in which to dance