The Brass Family - Whole Lesson

**Lesson three in a series of six lessons on musical instruments and instrumental families. Lesson three is on The Brass Family.

This lesson forms part of a series designed to teach children about musical instruments and instrumental families without the need for music resources or specialist musical knowledge. The lessons are designed to be accessible to students from all musical backgrounds.

Although the lesson does form part of a series, it can also be used a stand-alone lesson on brass instrument and does not need to be used in conjunction with other lessons in the series.

This lesson pack contains a presentation and 6 worksheets.

Presentation
The presentation is best used to teach students about the brass family. The lesson presentation is structured as follows:

• overview of instrument families
• overview of the brass family - key instruments, common features etc.
• Deeper look at the trumpet
• Deeper look at the trombone
• Deeper look at the french horn
• Deeper look at the baritone and euphonium
• Deeper look at the tuba
• Comparison of brass instruments
• Three activities
  The presentation finishes with three different activity suggestions to consolidate knowledge.
  The presentation includes questions and short activities throughout to allow students to take an active part in their learning.
  The presentation is long enough and detailed enough that it could be separated across two lessons for lower ability learners. If this is the case, I would suggest splitting into two lessons, starting the second lesson with the comparisons between instruments.

Worksheets
The lesson pack comes with 6 different worksheets, each a different activity as follows:

• cut and stick
• wordsearch
• times table sheet
• unscramble activity
• fact file writing activity
• true or false quiz
  All worksheets except the fact file writing worksheet would make excellent starter or plenary activities to frame the lesson.