**Lesson three in a 6-part unit of work on musical instruments and instrumental families. ** This lesson covers the brass family. HOWEVER This lesson can work as a stand-alone teaching resource for introducing students to brass instruments and does not need to be used in conjunction with other lessons in the lesson series The aim of this unit of work is to enable children to learn about music and musical instruments without the requirement of any specialist music teacher, prior musical knowledge, or practical music resources like instruments. This lesson covers the brass family. The following topic areas are covered in the lesson: recap of instrumental families, introduction to brass family and brass instruments, walk-through of individual brass instruments, comparing brass instruments. The trumpet, trombone, French Horn, euphonium, baritone, and tuba are discussed in this lesson. The lesson is structured as a detailed presentation. Questions are asked throughout to help engage students’ attention and allow them to have an active part in their learning. Activities are also involved in the lesson to help students consolidate their knowledge. Activities include the following: mind map activity hot-seating/interview activity poster-making/ advertising activity written fact-file activity Creative design activity The presentation has 43 slides. Depending on the needs of the pupils and length of the lesson, this lesson could be broken-down into 2 or 3 separate lessons. If breaking the lesson into 2, I would recommend commencing lesson 2 from ‘comparing brass instruments’. If breaking the lesson down into 3 separate lessons, I would recommend commencing lesson 2 from the walk-through of individual brass instruments, and lesson 3 from ‘comparing brass instruments’. Colour is used throughout to aid memory. Animations and transitions are used throughout to engage attention but they are used subtly so as to not become overwhelming or overstimulating.

Worksheet combining woodwind instruments/music and times tables. Coding based activity where numbers are assigned letters. Students must calculate the times table sum to work out the letter and spell out the names of different woodwind instruments. Times tables up to 12X covered.

A true or false quiz based on facts about woodwind instruments. 12 questions in total. Where an answer is false, students are encouraged to write the true answer next to the question. Answers provided on a separate sheet. Great starter or plenary activity or way to make an informal assessment.

A collection of five fact file writing frames based on woodwind instruments. Fact file writing frame for each of the following woodwind instruments: flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, saxophone. Prompt questions asked to help children construct their fact file including: description of the instrument why the instrument is woodwind how the instrument makes a sound key features of the instrument history of the instrument a question about the instrument There is also space for students to draw an image and label the different parts of the instrument. Great activity for developing student’s writing, encouraging independent research, and as a way of producing a revision resource or consolidating student’s knowledge.

Worksheet designed to help children learn the names of different woodwind instruments. The names of five woodwind instruments are provided with their letters scrambled up. Children can solidify their knowledge of woodwind instrument names by unscrambling the words and practise their spelling by putting the letters in the right order. Great starter or plenary activity.

Wordsearch covering five woodwind instruments and key features of woodwind instruments. This activity helps develop spelling and knowledge of key words associated with woodwind instruments. Great starter or plenary activity.

**Lesson two in a 6-part unit of work on musical instruments and instrumental families. ** This lesson covers the woodwind family. The aim of this unit of work is to enable children to learn about music and musical instruments without the requirement of any specialist music teacher, prior musical knowledge, or practical music resources like instruments. This lesson covers the woodwind family. The following topic areas are covered in the lesson: recap of instrumental families, introduction to woodwind family and woodwind instruments, walk-through of individual woodwind instruments, comparing woodwind instruments. The flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and saxophone are discussed in this lesson. The lesson is structured as a detailed presentation. Questions are asked throughout to help engage students’ attention and allow them to have an active part in their learning. Activities are also involved in the lesson to help students consolidate their knowledge. Activities include the following: mind map activity poster-making/ advertising activity written fact-file activity Creative design activity Colour is used throughout to aid memory. Animations and transitions are used throughout to engage attention but they are used subtly so as to not become overwhelming or overstimulating.

Combining times tables, music, and coding. All the letters of the alphabet are given a number. Students have to solve the simple times table sum to work out the letter to spell out the names of different instrumental families. Times table up to 12X included.

A writing based activity to create a fact file about instrumental families. Skills involved: writing, reading, and memory recall. Children are given a short paragraph about each instrumental family in turn but with unfinished sentences. Children are to complete the sentences to create a fact file about instrumental families. Example as follows: "I am the woodwind family. Instruments in my family include… I am normally made of … Some features of the woodwind family are… "

Names of different instrumental families are given but with their letters scrambled up. Children are asked to unscramble the letters to work out which instrumental family is being named. The first letter of each family is left capitalised as a starting point. Worksheet framed in a child-friendly manner by creating a character “Oli Owl” who is making and instrument inventory but got his letters muddled. Worksheet invites children to help “Oli” write his inventory by unscrambling his letters. Answers provided on a separate sheet.

Designed to consolidate student’s knowledge of key features of instrumental families. A reading activity where students are presented with a short paragraph describing an instrumental family and they are asked to decide which instrumental family is being described. Answers provided on a separate sheet. Great starter or plenary activity.

Colour coding worksheet encouraging children to think about different musical instruments and decide which instrumental family they belong to. 24 musical instruments given with instructions to colour-code the instruments based on whether they are in the woodwind, brass, string, keyboard, or percussion family. Answers provided on a separate sheet. Great starter or plenary activity.

Cut and stick worksheet on instrumental families. Children are given 24 different musical instruments and a table with the following four sections: woodwind - brass - percussion - strings. Children are to cut out the 24 musical instrument names and organise them into the correct place in the table. Aim to help children recall and learn the name of different musical instruments and which instrumental family they belong to. Great starter or plenary activity.

Wordsearch covering keywords relating to instrumental families and properties of instrumental families. 18 words to find in the wordsearch. Answers are provided on a separate sheet. Wordsearch is laid out in a family manner, with some images, musical border and space between the letters. Words to find are given at the bottom of the page. Great starter or plenary task. Useful for encouraging children to recall the names of different instrumental families, their properties, and learn their spellings in a fun and relaxed way. Could maybe have a class competition to see who can complete the wordsearch the quickest?

Lesson One: Introducing Musical Instruments and Instrumental Families - Worksheet Pack Worksheets to accompany lesson one of a 6 lesson unit of work looking at musical instruments and instrumental families. The idea is to teach children about these key areas without needing any specialist musical knowledge or practical music resources like instruments. 7 worksheets included in the pack each covering a range of different activities including: Wordsearch Unscrambling activity Cut-and-stick activity Colour coding activity Times table activity Written fact-file activity Riddles activity Worksheets used best in conjunction with the presentation “Introducing Musical Instruments and Instrument Families - Lesson One” - also available. Worksheets presented in a friendly format with a music themed border. Answers provided for each activity where appropriate. Great starter or plenary activities, but could also be used within lesson to consolidate knowledge. Worksheets could supply a number of different lessons or the whole pack could be given at once to encourage children to structure their own learning and manage how and when they complete activities.

**Lesson one is a series of six lessons on musical instruments and instrumental families. ** This presentation covers lesson one which focuses on introducing the different instrumental families and briefly covering which instruments would be included in those instrumental families and key features of those instrumental families. The idea behind these lesson is so that children can be taught about music even without having access to musical instruments or a music specialist. Lessons do not require pupils or staff to have prior musical knowledge to be taught and understood. Focus is on: names of musical instruments, names of instrumental families, key facts and features of musical instruments and instrumental families. Instrumental families included: woodwind, brass, strings, percussion, keyboard (keyboard has been used a separate category to avoid confusion between whether pianos are string or percussion - this is explained) Questions are spoken tasks are included throughout to engage pupil’s attention and allow them to have an active part in their learning. Mind-map tasks interspersed throughout the second half of the presentation and the presentation finishes with a suggestion for two tasks to consolidate knowledge: a research based task, and a worksheet based task (corresponding worksheets available separately). Colour is used to aid memory and learning. Animations are used to allow for questions to be asked and answered, and to engage pupil’s attention but animations are subtle so as to not be over-stimulating.

Worksheet designed to challenge children to learn and recall the names of musical instruments through the unscrambling of letters. Answers provided on a separate sheet. Worksheet is laid out in a friendly-manner. Framed in such a way to encourage the children to complete the work by giving a back-story about a character Oli Owl who has mixed up his letters in his musical instrument inventory. Worksheet invites the children to help Oli write his list out again. First letter of each instrument is left a capital as a starting point for each answer. Useful for learning musical instrument names, practising handwriting, practising spelling. Great starter or plenary task.