Nurturing Creativity - Soundscapes

Nurturing Creativity - Soundscapes

Activity 4 of 4 in this unit

  • Early Learning
  • The Arts
  • Social
  • Social and Emotional Learning
  • ...

Lesson summary

In this activity, children will explore sounds they hear in a variety of settings, undertake a soundwalk and then create a soundscape – both as a written document and a live performance.

Activity Intention:

  • This activity has been designed to develop the creative potential of young children through experiential learning in the arts.

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EYLF Learning Outcomes:

Learning Outcome 1:

  • Children have a strong sense of identity
  • 1.1 Children feel safe, secure, and supported
  • 1.2 Children develop their emerging autonomy, interdependence, resilience and sense of agency
  • 1.3 Children develop knowledgeable and confident self identities
  • 1.4 Children learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect

Learning Outcome 2:

Children are connected with and contribute to their world
2.1 Children develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities and an understanding of the reciprocal rights and responsibilities necessary for active community participation

Learning Outcome 3:

Children have a strong sense of wellbeing
3.1 Children become strong in their social and emotional wellbeing
3.2 Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing

Learning Outcome 4:

  • Children are confident and involved learners
  • 4.1 Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
  • 4.2 Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
  • 4.3 Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another
  • 4.4 Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials

Learning Outcome 5:

  • Children are effective communicators
  • 5.1 Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes
  • 5.2 Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts

Resources required

  • Home-made percussion instruments such as pots and pans and their lids, sticks, branches with leaves and seed pods, shakers containing different materials to make different sounds (sand, rice, beads, stones), rain sticks, anything else that creates a sound – you are limited only by your imagination!
  • Paper and crayons, pencils or markers

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Additional info

This lesson has been developed in partnership with the Graeme Wood Foundation. It is designed to develop the creative potential of young children through experiential learning in the arts.

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