Digital @ The Arts Unit Creative Classes
Digital @ The Arts Unit Creative Classes
Teacher music resource developed by The Arts Unit
Years 1 to 6 music
This resource explores making and organising sounds to compose a simple musical composition. Through making a rainbow water xylophone, students will learn how sound waves travel and how different pitches are produced.
Your students will:
discover how a water xylophone works
create their own rainbow water xylophone
experiment with making and organising musical sounds
compose their own musical piece.
This resource can be linked to other lessons in the Colour my world series including visual arts.
Parent/caregiver support is needed to assist students with the lesson.
MUS1.2: explores, creates, selects and organises sound in simple structures.
MUS2.2: improvises musical phrases, organises sounds and explains reasons for choices.
MUS3.2: improvises, experiments, selects, combines and orders sound using musical concepts.
Google Form: create a Google form with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create. Email this form to your students with the Creative Class link and all your student responses will be combined in a Google sheet.
Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.
MS Teams: create a quiz or assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create.
Email: ask 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 a message board where teachers can pose questions called 'topics'. Students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.
Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used for class feedback.
Download and print this document to send to students with limited access to online resources.
Would you like to have your school promoted and your students work showcased as a result of engaging in this Creative Class?
Help us celebrate the fantastic work of NSW public school students by emailing photos or videos that you have permission to share and comments on how your students enjoyed the class to digital.artsunit@det.nsw.edu.au.
Please ensure you include the creative class title and your school name in the email so we can share on The Arts Unit social media pages and on our website.
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2006, copied under s113P, accessed 10 May 2020.