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Sea mythology music

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Oceans and Seas Sea Mythology

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Objectives

Geography

  • Develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places, both terrestrial and marine.
  • Interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, globes and aerial photographs.
  • Name and locate the world’s seven continents and five oceans.

Music

  • Play tuned and un-tuned instruments musically.
  • Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.

Lesson Planning

Listen to sounds of the sea; Make a mind map of episodes from the voyage of Odysseus. Create a sequence of sounds matched to these events.

Teaching Outcomes
 To use knowledge of the oceans in music making.
To use imagination to create a piece of music to demonstrate mood and emotion.

Children will:

  • Use sea mythology as a stimulus for music.
  • Create and perform music in relation to mood and emotion.

You Will Need

  • The story of Odysseus (from session 1)
  • A selection of instruments (see the presentation for ideas)

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