Level 1
Developing Practical Knowledge in Music (PK)
Students will explore and respond to the musical elements of beat, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, and tone colour.
Developing Ideas in Music (DI)
Students will select and organise sounds and express ideas, drawing on personal experience and imagination.
Communicating and Interpreting in Music (CI)
Students will share music making with others through informal presentation and respond to live or recorded music.
Understanding Music in Context (UC)
Students will identify music as part of everyday life and recognise that it serves a variety of purposes.
Learning Examples
- Listen to and identify contrasting sounds in the local environment and respond imaginatively to these sounds (e.g., by moving, vocalising, imitating, talking about the sounds). (PK, UC)
- Listen to music that has a wide range of sounds (e.g., loud and soft, fast and slow, high and low, long and short) and move in ways that reflect these sounds. (PK)
- Imitate rhythmic and melodic patterns. Then improvise responses to these patterns and share these responses with others. (PK, DI, CI)
- Use a variety of sounds and movements to enhance a story, pakiwaitara, poem, or song. (DI, UC)
- Create different sounds from a single sound source (e.g., striking, blowing, and rolling a plastic tube) and describe the sounds. Represent the sounds in drawings and share these responses with others. (PK, DI, CI)
- Make patterns from a high sound and a low sound, using everyday objects, voice, tuned percussion (e.g., two notes on a glockenspiel), or untuned percussion (e.g., two-tone wood blocks). Share these patterns with others. (PK, DI, CI)
- Sing, from memory, action songs and chants from different cultures. Adapt an existing song or chant to create or shape new ideas (e.g., by changing the tempo, dynamics, mood). Create an original chant, drawing on personal experience and imagination. (CI, UC, PK, DI)
- Use voices to explore contrasts between sounds (e.g., loud and soft, high and low, long and short, fast and slow). Use the results to create sound pictures inspired by environmental features of the local area. (PK, DI)
- Listen to and talk about one or more musical works for a special occasion (e.g., a school welcome, community festival, family celebration). Create and share a piece of music suitable for such an occasion. (UC, CI, DI)
- Listen and respond to several pieces of recorded or live music that are performed by musicians from within the local community or are part of the everyday environment. (UC, CI)
