Music for Learning

Unit 2: Reading Music – Pitch and Melody
Years 3 and 4

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Teaching resources

Teaching Guide
Student Workbook
Final Assessments
Overview
Unit 2: Reading Music - Pitch and Melody - Years 3 and 4 is a Music unit for Year 3 and 4 students.
It aligns to the Australian curriculum content descriptions:
  • Explore where, why and how music is composed and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts (AC9AMU4E01).
  • Explore how First Nations Australians use music to communicate their connection to and responsibility for Country/Place (AC9AMU4E02).
Learning Objectives
In Weeks 1-10, students learn:
  • that every culture in the world uses musical elements in their music
  • that every musical tradition has its own instruments, styles and dances and musical elements such as pitch and melody
  • how the elements of music are used
  • to describe the music of the Pacific Islands, Indigenous Australia, Africa, Asia, Europe and South America using elements of music (Weeks 2-8)
  • the purpose of some music from the Pacific Islands, Indigenous Australia, Africa, Asia, Europe and South America (Week 2-8)
  • the sounds, names and uses of instruments from the Pacific Islands, Indigenous Australia, Africa, Asia, Europe and South America (Week 2-8)
  • to create an instrument using recycled materials.
Success Criteria 
  • Use the elements of music to describe the music from different cultures.
  • Identify and name traditional musical instruments and musicians from the Pacific Islands, Indigenous Australia, Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.
  • Name and explain three elements of music from the Pacific Islands, Indigenous Australia, Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.
Assessment 
Continuous Assessments
Continuous assessments are used to ascertain if the knowledge recently taught has been understood by the student. These include oral tasks administered to individual students or written tasks administered to the whole class for an entire lesson. Written tasks are completed in the Student Workbook.
 
Progressive Tests
A progressive test in week five is used to assess whether the knowledge over the past half a term or five weeks has been mastered and retained by the student.
 
Final Assessment
Final assessment occurs at the end of the unit in week ten and consists of a series of marked questions to assess understanding of the material taught in the previous ten weeks and provides an opportunity for students to demonstrate their understanding of the unit. Teachers assess students’ work using a Guide to Making Judgements (GTMJ).

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