Lesson One of a series of 6 lessons designed to teach children about musical instruments and instrumental families Lesson one focuses on an introduction to different musical instruments and instrumental families with lessons 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 going into more detail on each individual instrumental family. The idea of these lessons is to enable children to learn about musical instruments, instrumental families, and music more generally without the need for any specialist musical knowledge or practical music resources like instruments. Lesson consists of a presentation and two worksheet packs. One worksheet pack on musical instruments and the other on instrumental families. There are more worksheets and activities as is necessary for one lesson to allows teachers and support staff to choose the most appropriate worksheets/activities for your students, and to allow the activities to cover a range of lessons and circumstances if need be. Some worksheets would make great starter / plenary tasks. Presentation covers each of the instrumental families in brief detail, covering key features of each, instruments belonging to each family. It also explains how instrumental families are assigned and why. Activities and questions are embedded throughout the presentation to encourage students to have an active part in their learning. Animations and colour are used in a subtle way to engage children’s attention without being over-stimulating. Worksheets involve a range of activities including: wordsearches, riddles, times tables, cut-and-stick, colour coding, unscrambling, matching, reading, and writing activities. Total of 15 worksheets included with answers where appropriate. Worksheets presented in a friendly manner with musical borders, simple instructions, and some images.

**Lesson six in a series of six lessons on musical instruments and instrumental families. Lesson five covers The Keyboard Family This lesson forms part of a series designed to teach children about musical instruments and instrumental families without the need for music resources or specialist musical knowledge. The lessons are designed to be accessible to students from all musical backgrounds. Although the lesson does form part of a series, it can also be used a stand-alone lesson on keyboard instrument and does not need to be used in conjunction with other lessons in the series. This lesson pack contains a presentation and 4 worksheets. Presentation The presentation is best used to teach students about the keyboard family. The lesson presentation is structured as follows: overview of instrument families overview of the keyboard family - key instruments, common features etc. Deeper look at the piano Deeper look at the electric piano / keyboard Three activities The presentation finishes with three different activity suggestions to consolidate knowledge: a written task, and two creative tasks. The presentation includes questions and short activities throughout to allow students to take an active part in their learning. The presentation is long enough and detailed enough that it could be separated across two lessons for lower level learners. If this is the case, I would suggest splitting into two lessons, starting the second lesson with the deeper look at the electric piano / keyboard. Worksheets The lesson pack comes with 4 different worksheets, each a different activity as follows: wordsearch times table sheet unscramble activity fact file writing activity Worksheets come with answers where appropriate. All worksheets except the fact file writing worksheet would make excellent starter or plenary activities to frame the lesson. Where possible, worksheets have a cross-curricular emphasis and are designed to enhance literacy and numeracy skills as well as reinforcing the subject of keyboard instruments.