Following the introductory 'Movie music' Part 1, this lesson continues to engage learners and is good for developing listening vocabulary and aural skills. The scaffolded pptx. picks one musical element (pitch for instance) and has students watch and listen to selected, short film clips using the Trailer from the Justice League Official Comic-Con (2017) movie. To begin, students focus on just one music element. Then, they listen again focusing on a different musical element. This pptx. gives short guides on each music element for students to copy and use as they watch and listen. The guides can be reused many times as general notes for listening skills in other topics. This exercise is engaging, promotes discussion and skilfully has students listening over and over with a focus on each element as they practise their skills. They won’t know how hard they are working! This lesson builds listening skills and helps students meet ACARA Year 7 and 8 Achievement Standard: "By the end of Year 8, students identify and analyse how the elements of music are used in different styles and apply this knowledge in their performances and compositions. They evaluate musical choices they and others from different cultures, times and places make to communicate meaning as performers and composers." http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/the-arts/music/curriculum Generally meets outcomes for: Enquiring – identifying, exploring and organising information and ideas • Identify and clarify information and ideas • Organise and process information Generating ideas, possibilities and actions • Imagine possibilities and connect ideas • Consider alternatives Reflecting on thinking and processes • Think about thinking (metacognition) • Reflect on processes Analysing, synthesising and evaluating reasoning and procedures • Draw conclusions • Analyse composers’ use of the elements of music and stylistic features when listening to and interpreting music. • identifying elements of music aurally and then discussing how these elements, composition techniques and devices are used and manipulated to create a style. • accessing and researching music through real or virtual performances to analyse performers’ interpretations of composers’ intentions

Easily extended beyond a few lessons, this resource includes two Projects that meet learning outcomes for Music while building strong content knowledge through purposeful reading, writing, viewing, listening, and research. GarageBand software makes music composition easy for middle school aged students. Meaningful and active learning can easily be experienced through these fun activities. Ease of navigation also makes it appealing to students and teachers (who could easily learn to use it alongside their students). Since music can be listened to, played, and seen through GarageBand, it also presents it through different modes of learning. Multiple modes of presentation and the need for student choices, creates a more meaningful learning experience. Your students will respond to varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline by taking notes, making notes and selecting convincing evidence. Students can use their own creativity in completing projects that are authentic. The Projects also reinforce the right use of repetition, adjusting tempo (speed), key, dynamics (volume), melodic flow, etc. For your program: Students will also be introduced the concepts of • meter, • beats per minute, • time signature, and • musical patterns/repetition. By the end of the two Projects students will be able to: • know the basics of using music technology for fun & the Garageband software • insert loops into a project to create a simple composition of their own • and with extended time they will be able to change the tempo and time signature of a song Teachers can assess by: • Listening to a students’ composition and reading their written work to see if they have understood how to create a musical pattern within the Garage band software. • Checking to see if the students can identify patterns within other students’ work. • Listen for precise vocabulary to describe rhythm and metre as well as their music. • Students are able to talk about similarities and differences in rhythmic patterns. checking for understanding through simple note taking and note making rounds off the exercise! NESA Australian Professional Standards for Teachers Know students and how they learn: 1.5.2 Develop teaching activities that incorporate differentiated strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities 2.1.2 Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies to develop engaging teaching activities Know the content and how to teach it 2.2.2 Organise the content into coherent, well-sequenced learning and teaching programs