Body beats

Use Chrome Music Lab Rhythm to explore rhythm using body percussion

Student music resource developed by The Arts Unit

Year 3 to Year 6 music

Your students will:

• explore rhythms using body percussion

• experiment with Chrome Music Lab Rhythm

• create rhythms using Chrome Music Lab

• learn the concept of rhythm, beat and metre.

Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus

Stage 2

• MUS2.1: Sings, plays and moves to a range of music, demonstrating a basic knowledge of musical concepts.

• MUS2.2: Improvises musical phrases, organises sounds and explains reasons for choices.

• MUS2.3: Uses commonly understood symbols to represent own work.

• MUS2.4: Identifies the use of musical concepts and musical symbols in a range of repertoire.

Stage 3

• MUS3.1: Sings, plays and moves to a range of music, individually and in groups, demonstrating a knowledge of musical concepts.

• MUS3.2: Improvises, experiments, selects, combines and orders sound using musical concepts.

• MUS3.3: Notates and discusses own work and the work of others.

• MUS3.4: Identifies the use of musical concepts and symbols in a range of musical styles

Collection of student work

• Google Form: create a Google Form with activities and/or questions, as well as, the ability for your students to upload of any files they create. Email this form to your students with the link to the Creative Class and all your student responses will be collated in a google sheet.

• Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your classes Google Classroom with activities and/or questions, as well as, the ability for your students to upload any files they create.

• MS Teams: create a quiz or an assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create.

• Email: instruct your students to email you any responses and files they create.

• Flipgrid: a website that allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called "topics," and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.

• Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used as a feedback board for you and your students to use.

For further support on how to create these resources

• Get started with Google Forms

• Create a Google Classroom Assignment

• Assign quizzes to students through Microsoft Teams

• Create an assignment in Microsoft Teams

• Educators – getting started with Flipgrid

• Get started with Jamboard