Unit 5 – Percussion Instruments
Activity 1 – Instruments played in different ways
The teacher explains to students that instruments are played in different ways, either by crashing, banging, shaking, hitting and scraping.
Maracas – shaking
Drum – hitting
Tambourine – hitting / shaking
Cymbals – banging
Glockenspie – hitting
Guiro – scraping
Then shows them how these techniques are played on various percussion instruments available in class. Students are then encouraged to imitate the technique played by the teacher and, if possible, explain the technique itself.
Activity 2 – Identify the Percussion Instruments
The students are asked to name a few percussion instruments and to explain how sound is produced.
In the activity the student has to identify which are the percussion instruments by drawing a circle around the them. The instruments are to be labelled: triangle, maracas, tambourine, drum.