Powerpoint includes: famous musicians, historical context, body percussion activity, theory about form and structure, how to make a disco beat, instruments. Worksheet includes: disco reading comprehension text and questions, assessment level sheet and a DIRT (directed improvement reflection time) listening task.

KS3 SOW introducing students to the style of Disco Music. This SOW contains 6 lessons that covers the key features of Disco music, a performance task (‘Funky Town’), composition task (creating a bassline and hook for a Disco backing track) and listening quiz. These lessons are differentiated for LA and HA. SOW document also included.

Everything you need to teach Disco Music as a style for C1. This resource covers the sonic and compositional features of Disco, gives a complete powerpoint for teaching, scores for classroom performance and listening activities Complete powerpoint for teaching Performance files to play “Car Wash” (Rose Royce) including individual MP3 files and scores. Analysis of “Freak out” by Le Chic

Brief background on Disco music and how it has developed, key artists and activity for students

Disco - Quick Outline, is one of many infographics that outline the main features and elements of popular music styles and genres. These quick summaries would act as a great study guide to give a concise and detailed look at different Pop music key characteristics and qualities. Each poster comes with embedded YouTube links to musical examples and breaks the style into these key areas: · Instrumentation · Performance & Arrangement · Technology & Production · Main Artists/Bands · Influences · Key Facts & Terminology Posters and displays are an extremely useful tool to aid learning and can motivate students to learn a specific topic. They can help learners to focus on a certain idea, fact, event, or process. They are convenient both for pupils and teachers as they help students to absorb the material faster and but used again and again for a range of materials. In this package: OUTLINE-POSTER – (.png HD quality image file) OUTLINE-POSTER – (.pdf with embedded links) POWERPOINT Version POSTER - (.pptx - read-only) GOOGLE SLIDES™ - Resource sheet with links to Digital Learning version of material (.pdf) =================================== Product License: Unlimited copies for you. However, you may not distribute additional copies to friends, fellow teachers, or students. Freebies and Discounts: Follow me to stay updated with discounts and freebies. There are also lots of Free resources offered on my store! Comments…We Love 'Em! Your feedback brightens our day and helps us continually improve our products. If you download this, we’d appreciate it if you’d leave a comment. Thanks!

A PowerPoint of 3 lessons and a wordsearch based on the style of Disco dance.

fun ppt - students work out the reactivity series by watching the characters dance with each other

A ppt for doh disco with some links to music tracks on you tube ( or use your own music) actions are represented by symbols for SEN, 1 page per action so you can go as fast or as slow as you like to whatever music you or your students like. The last page has a selection of actions which you could add to or remove as appropriate - I ask students to take turns to lead the class they select an action and lead the group. To extend we add a direction eg roll it up, roll it down, sausage to the side etc. Have also used this in maths by adding a numeral to the action e.g. sausage 6 times. Lots of fun!

By using a track from the film Priscilla Queen of the Dessert, learners are given the opportunity to explore the varied elements of disco music. In using the film as case study for the music, learners are also afforded the opportunity to learn about the definition of Trans. For more materials associated with this resource, please follow the links provided.

Information on the style of disco, set as a Powerpoint for GCSE students.

This lessons encourages pupils to develop their budgeting skills by planning a Halloween party. Budget and prices could be adapted to suit the age and stage of learners.

Dough Disco Challenges linking with counting forwards and backwards to 20.

This is a Disco scheme of work I created for my Year 9's. It has a lesson by lesson overview, a full unit overview, PowerPoint for each lesson and some parts for the performance of 'Funky Town'. Obviously you will want to make changes to cater this to your pupils, but hopefully it gives you some ideas on where to start!

Join Shane the Shark on a deep sea adventure to find the deep sea disco! Learn all about the amazing scale and wonder of earth’s amazing ocean! More at https://earthcubs.com Follow for more free teacher resources! Always FREE!

Hi all, Similar to may of my other resources this book has been adapted with Widget for my students with ASC. There are also a couple of activity ideas at the end. Hope you like it, Vicky

This FREE download contains two fantastic resources to use with your class! 1-The first document contains a ‘Book Talk Map’. This is the perfect document to guide your discussion after story time with questions to encourage children to think critically and imaginatively to gain a deeper understanding for the book! High quality book talk is imperative in supporting a reading for pleasure attitude in our pupils. These questions provide a prompt for rich discussion questioning children’s perspectives on the book and what they like or dislike about it. 2-The second document provides an ‘Activity Map’ with a variety of activities and tasks you could set your pupils based around Kitchen Disco. Reading for pleasure and children’s literature is a passion of mine so I hope that you enjoy this resources as much as I have enjoyed making it! Please do rate and review below. AM x

An informative Power Point about the genre of 1970's Disco. Venue, occasion, dance steps, main characteristics, structure, instrumentation, technology and more! Includes questions for students to answer, to consolidate knowledge of the genre. Suitable for KS3 and also good as a revisional tool for GCSE students at KS4.

A comprehensive unit of work on 1970s Disco (Flares, Escapism & Homophobia), looking at the historical & political context, as well as two track analyses on Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive (1978) and Boney M’s Rasputin (1978). Resource consists of 3 separate powerpoints and a written assignment template. There is a suggested extenstion task, looking at a Minogue track from 2015 (no resources on this one). Warning: there are some potentially triggering references linked to different socio-economic groups. Exploration of lyrical content throughout touches on some sensitive topics.

Included is a short powerpoint presentation, with a sample program and tutorial instructions for making the animation program on Scratch. After the starter task on the Powerpoint I give them a look at the finished program, before starting a new program and showing them the first few steps. After this they begin creating their own programs, using the tutorial for reference or if they are stuck.

This is one worksheet that comes from a series of 10. The bundle can be purchased separately on the shop page. Each worksheet explores a different genre and styles of music and will make a great one-off lesson, homework task, cover work or could even be expanded into a longer class project. Each worksheet has an opportunity for students to complete initial individual research of the specific genre of music. There is a listening exercise that expands upon the historical and musical context already learnt by the students. Each worksheet finishes with the opportunity for independent project work where students can pick a task from the list and use it as a final assessment piece that can be assessed by the teacher. Students will have the flexibility in how they present the work for assessment making this a great student-led project.

Scaley Disco is a performance piece for tuned percussion. It uses the instruments logically so that the piece is straightforward to learn with the end result being satisfying. The resource comes with an MP3 recording of the whole piece - melody and backing. There is an MP3 of the backing. There is a third MP3 with the backing on the left channel and the xylophone melody on the right channel. This could be useful if your equipment has a balance control. There is a PDF of the xylophone part. There is a free demo MP3 so that you can hear what the piece sounds like before purchasing. It is available on this site as a separate resource.