Year 5
Technology
Technological evolution provides people with tools to solve their problems responsibly
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What?
What?
We are learning:
- about the evolution of instruments and devices that are used to play, record and listen to music
- How to play the recorder
- How to create and notate music using a variety of technology and techniques
Why?
Why?
We want to understand:
- The evolution of inventions through history and their impact on work and leisure (Change)
- How we can use technology to create music (Function)
How?
How?
We will achieve this by using:
- Research skills:
- Finding out information
- Thinking skills:
- Using our knowledge in creative ways
- Coming up with new ideas
- Self-management skills:
- Following procedures
- Persevering in our practice
We started our inquiry by thinking of how music is connected to technology.
We discussed how technology has affected music mostly in three ways:
- The way we play music (through the development of instruments).
- The way we listen to music (through the development of recording and playing devices)
- The way we create and distribute music (through the use of different inventions, like the print or the computer)
Evolution of the Flute.docxWe used this worksheet to analyse and understand how the flute changed throughout history and what are the reasons why these changes were introduced (Causation)
We have started to develop our instrumental skills using a very simple piece of technology: the recorder.
You can use this tutorial video to learn how to play "Apple Tree" using a reduced stave.
Apple Tree.mp4Reduced stave_recorder.docxThis is the score for Apple Tree and for three other songs. Remember the steps to learn to play a song:
- Identify the pitch
- Identify the rhythm
- Say pitch and rhythm
- "Pretend play" (say the notes as you move the fingers without blowing)
- Play
Click here to enjoy some of our best performances on the recorders
We are using our creative thinking skills to apply our learning into a composition task.
Using the pentatonic scale and simple rhythms, we composed a jingle that we had to create, notate, play on the recorder and sing.
Composition Challenge_Recorder.docxWe explored how music can have a great impact on they way we perceived things. We discussed the key concepts "Change" and "Perspective" through this video, in which different music has been used to illustrate the same scene of a famous movie. We discussed how the different types of music made us watch the scene with different feelings.
Our final task was to become composers to create jingles to advertise a piece of technology we invented in class. This time we used a new piece of technology to create our pieces: the iPad App Garageband. The challenge was that we also had to write the structure of the piece we had created, including the instruments used, how they were structured and the elements that were present. This is the sample Mr Fernando gave us to practise our skills:
Garageband composition template. Model.docxClick here to listen to some of our best jingles!!
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