Musical Contexts Primary/KS2 Music Units
The Musical Contexts Primary/KS2 Music Units are packed full of exciting and engaging cross-curricular topic-themed music-making activities for the Primary Music Classroom - ideal for specialist or non-specialist Music Teachers.
Each 'fully-resourced' unit comes with resources, tasks and activities to supplement:
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Playing: Singing and Performing
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Creating: Composing and Improvising
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Critical Engagement: Listening and Appraising
These include: Teacher Schemes of Work and Lesson Plans, Worksheets, DOITNOW and Pit Stop Reviews, Songs, Scores and all supporting Media Files.
Further information and samples from each of the Musical Contexts Primary/KS2 Music Units can be seen by hovering over the unit images below.
Each unit is available to download via a 'one click download' to 'full site subscribers' from the download links below and each unit will download as a complete .zip file.
Water Music
Exploring Melodic Shape and Dynamics through music inspired by Water, The Water Cycle, Rivers and Seas.
Weather & Seasons
Exploring Weather Sounds, Textures and Harmony, Baroque Music and Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and Storm Music.
Animal Crackers
Exploring Birdsong, Descriptive Programme Music, a musical Aquarium, Peter and the Wolf and The Carnival of the Animals.
Water Music
Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans
Excellent cross-curricular links with primary topics of Rivers, Seas and The Water Cycle.
All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'.
Animal Crackers
Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans
Excellent cross-curricular links with Birds, Sea life, Zoos and Animal Habitats
All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'.
Weather and Seasons
Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans
Excellent cross-curricular links with the Weather, Storms and The Four Seasons.
All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'.
Ancient Egypt
Exploring Dynamics, Triple Time, Texture Pyramids and The Harmonic Minor Scale through a range of Egyptian-inspired music-making activities.
Ancient Greece
Exploring Triple Time, The Pentatonic Scale, Greek Gods Leitmotifs, Greek Plate Notation and 'The Myth of Perseus and Medusa' to music.
The Victorians
Exploring Melodic Shape and Pitch in Victorian Street Cries, Victorian Musical Inventions and Gadgets, Victorian Music Hall and The French Can-Can Polka.
Ancient Egypt
Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans
Excellent cross-curricular links with The Egyptians through a range of Egyptian-inspired starting points and stimuli.
All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'.
Ancient Greece
Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans
Excellent cross-curricular links with The Greeks,
The Gods and Greek Myths through a
range of Greek-inspired starting points and stimuli.
All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'.
The Victorians
Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans
Excellent cross-curricular links with The Victorians.
Includes exploration of Victorian Musical Gadgets.
All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'.
Machine Music
Exploring Cyclic Musical Patterns, Graphic Scores, Factory, Train and Video Game Sounds.
Britain Since 1930
Exploring Songs and Music from WWII, Melodic Shape and Movement, The Chromatic Scale and Swing and Big Bands.
The Tudors
Exploring Tudor Dance Music, Drones, Tudor Musical Instruments, Madrigals and a Tudor Banquet-Concert.
Machine Music
Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans
Excellent cross-curricular links with Machines, Factories, Industry, Manufacturing, Travel and Transport and Video Games.
All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'.
Britain Since 1930
Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans
Excellent cross-curricular links with the 1930's and 1940's, Music and War and World War II.
All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'.
The Tudors
Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans
Excellent cross-curricular links with The Tudors including songs, dancing and a "Class Tudor Banquet Concert".
All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'.
Journey into Space
Exploring Descriptive Programme Music, Holst's "The Planets", Musical Planet Soundscapes and a class 'Journey into Space'.
Journey Into Space
Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans
Excellent cross-curricular links with The Planets, The Solar System and Space Exploration.
All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'.
Water Music
Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans
Excellent cross-curricular links with primary topics of Rivers, Seas and The Water Cycle.
All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'.