Musical Instruments and Instrumental Families Lesson

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.