The idea is - you tell the children you have been given a recording by your friend. He was sitting on the cliff one night, when he heard a strange sound. He recorded it on his phone but can’t understand what the voice is saying. You give out large pieces of paper to groups of 4. Ask them to listen and try and decipher the recording. They will surprise you with their ingenuity! Then next lesson, you play a version of the recording that you have cleaned up on the computer. Is it clearer? What course of action can you take now? Enclosed are the lesson plans for Art, ICT, drama, music and song writing plus the 2 soundscapes. (The sea, an ethereal sound and a disguised voice) This would make a very interesting children’s Assembly piece.

Ages 6-8 You will need sunflower seeds for the last part of the exploration The presentation is in A4 size, so the worksheets can be printed directly from the PowerPoint. I have included a free song from the musical “The Sunflowers” which could be a starting point. There are 10 different areas in the Sunflower Project. The one here concentrates on using the tools in simple graphics programmes. I have used PowerPoint and Paint but you could use anything you are familiar with. It uses copy, paste, rotate fill and different types of pens. The aim is to make a colouring book based on the shapes of sunflowers. The sheets can be trimmed easily by the child so that they can be pasted into an A4 booklet. The sunflower Project starts with the sowing of the sunflower seed and follows the observation through until Harvest. Each resource covers a curriculum area. The assumption is that natural science knowledge is absorbed through these various activities.

Pupils may process these sounds or used them as stand alone sound effects in their presentations

I've taken screenshots of each stage of using Madpad . We start with making a pattern with the existing sound bank and then go on to create our own sounds. You cant use Reflector with Mad pad hence the screen shots I haven't gone into detail with ABA structure . You may need to do some work on patterns before you start here or you could miss that and concentrate on creating rhythms

Pupils can use the sounds in power point or edit them in Audacity

These sound bites would need to converted back to WAV files in order to tinker with them Import into Audacity to alter sounds or they can be inserted into Power points I have put the link to the Audacity site where you can download free the program me to alter sound. You would need a converter like Switch to change the files back to WAV. Link above Enjoy !

This is for the non specialist primary school teacher. The video for download is to give you a gist of the lesson. If you want better quality , go to the YouTube version. The video of the Olympic Torch shows children how to make a simple but effective piece of music..There is also a worksheet . Children love to watch the video as their class mates play the music. There is a video with no sound on for this purpose. After the lesson there are teachers notes and an example of a basic soundtrack added to the video and the children's scribed music.

Various sound bites which can be edited in Audacity or inserted into presentations.] Audacity is a free sound editing program me on the net

A selection of MP3s which can be adapted as used in PowerPoint or Audacity. A converter to WAV files might be necessary for Audacity.

Useful for presentations or sound processing if converted to WAV files

Pupils may insert these into power point or process them with Audacity . They can insert them into dance e jay but mp3s will have to be converted to WAV files with a converter.

Sound bites may be changed to WAV files using a converter and then edited in program mes like Audacity. They can be inserted into Dance E jay or used as stand alones in presentations.

I had to make my own sound bites of bells as they were hard to track down. Pupils can tinker with them in Audacity or use them in their presentations.

Make up a story using the sound bites as a clue for the setting . Everything is ok until you hear the breaking glass. Put this into a power point and add the sound. You might also like to use a sound processor to compose music culminating in the broken glass. NB You may have to convert these files into WAV files . A switch converter is available on the internet