Pop Music Year 4 Home Learning Topic

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Pop Music Year 4 Home Learning Topic

RE

How is music used in different religious ceremonies?

PE

Zumba

Joe Wicks

Create a dance routine for a favourite pop song

GEOGRAPHY

Live Aid and similar - investigate the impact it had on the world

Tribal music vs pop music comparisons

Investigate a recent concert tour of one of their favourite pop artists - plot on a map of the world / uk

Popular styles of pop music around the world - study of a specific country?

PSHE

Look at the treatment of black musicians in history e.g. Jazz

Write a song about addressing a specific social issue

DT

Costumes for artists to perform in - give examples - Bjork, Lady Gaga, David Bowie, Billie Eilish etc.

Design a menu based around their favourite artist's songs E.g. Katy Perry - Hot n Cold pizza, Firework burger etc.

Design and make a model of a tour bus / stagecraft for their favourite pop singer or group.

MATHS

Problem Solving

Data handling - make a graph or chart or table based on some music related stats.

Geometric shapes - look at famous album art and identify shapes and features, symmetry etc.

Tour bus space and area problems

Calculation

Calculations involving spotify listens / records sold / youtube hits of popular artists. E.g. difference between Gangnam Style and Desposito

Weekly MyMaths to continue

FRENCH

Create a song about colours etc in French

Learn some simple French songs

Investigate some popular french pop singers - look at their lyrics

COMPUTING

Powerpoint about their favourite pop band/singer/style of pop music

Use garageband or similar app to create a piece of music using loops etc

Hour Of Code - create an animated dance party to some pop music

HISTORY

The charts through history - number 1s through time and how they've changed

Investigate a historical music scene e.g. Punk Rock n' Roll Hip Hop Dance Music Disco etc

History of recording - vinyl, cassettes, CDs, Downloads, streaming

ART

Create art based on the sounds they hear in a piece of music

Andy Warhol

Design a pop band

Famous album art - make a their own version in a similar style

SCIENCE

Sound - investigate how sound travels through different materials

ENGLISH

SPAG

Infer the meaning of vocabulary in song lyrics

Writing

Character description of a singer/band e.g. Billie Eilish,

Write a description of seeing their favourite performer live

Write a review of a concert - could watch some on youtube.

Write the lyrics for their own pop song based on a specific theme

Reading

Song lyrics interpretations/inference

Newspaper article about a tour being cancelled due to Covid-19

Reading comprehensions about music scenes or famous singers/bands