The Arts
Grade 6
Unit Overview - Musical Emotion
The series of lessons within this unit are by no means sequential. Although all of the lessons utilise the core theme of emotion through music, they can be implemented at any time throughout the grade 6 year. It is advised that students’ memories are refreshed prior to commencing the lessons. Each lesson builds on the notion that music is designed to create mood/bring out emotion. Within these lessons students explore what it is about music that draws these emotions, how the music used in movies promotes certain emotions, the difference between classical and modern music and the use of music in anti-bullying campaigns. The lessons within this unit utilise the ‘Music through listening’ approach to tune students into the keys used to create certain emotions/moods.
Why Teach Music?
Teaching music in the general primary school classroom provides a way of ‘engaging students emotionally and intellectually, stimulating both the left and right sides of the brain, using many of the basic intelligences through which children learn' (Russell-Bowie, 2006). The integration of music with literacy, numeracy, science and other domains of the curriculum is beneficial when considering lesson engagement, student learning and the general bulk of Australia’s new National Curriculum. Through incorporating music into everyday classroom practice, students ‘will be able to talk about how music makes them feel, why they like it and what is happening in the music they hear at school, home and in their adult life' (Russell-Bowie, 2006).
*Music*
