Year 4 SC SEN IT Purple Mash Making Music

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This series of lessons will provide the pupils with the knowledge and understanding to create simple and more complex animations using 2Sequence. The children can use 2Sequence to explore harmony and build up musical scores. As with all units, you may want to adapt the content to suit topics being studied in the classroom.

To explore, edit and combine sounds using 2Sequence.
To add sounds to a tune already created to change it.
To think about how music can be used to express feelings and create tunes which depict feelings
To upload a sound from a bank of sounds into the Sounds section.
To record their own sound and upload it into the Sounds section.
To create their own tune using the sounds which they have added to the Sounds section.

2Sequence . A user guide to this tool can be found in the Guides and Resources area of Purple Mash.
the lessons assume that pupils are logged onto Purple Mash with their own individual usernames
and passwords so their work will be saved in their own folders automatically
Make sure that you have the Purple Mash shortcut icon ready on the desktop or tablet to save time when the children are logging in.
Headphones may be useful during the teaching of this unit.

Detailed lesson Plans from Purple Mash can be found here:

This Purple mash lesson plan contains 3 Lessons but there is scope for it to take several more.

Lessons can be taken out of order or used at different times during the year.

The link between sounds /tunes and feelings can be useful to explore in other parts of the curriculum

There are video tutorials to support the use of the software and different tools.

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