STEAM Education in Music: Research, Teaching Design and Resources

SCHEME OF WORK (SECONDARY SCHOOL S1-3)
Overall Objectives: To nurture students’ creativity and critical response in music through innovative STEAM activities and to enhance
their understanding of musical characteristics in electronic music through performing and listening
Key Stage: 3
Total Number of Periods: 8 periods, 40 minutes per period
Learning Targets*
Learning Activities
Learning Objectives
CI SP CR MC Listening Performing Creating
Generic Skills /
Value and Attitudes
Assessment Resources
Students learn to:
1. describe and analyse electronic
music with suitable musical
terms
2. use appropriate style to
interpret graphic notation with
electronic instruments
3. design an electronic instrument
with the use of the electronic
building blocks with suitable
controller
4. apply technology to create a
composition for the electronic
instrument
5. notate the composition with
graphic score
6. perform the original
composition
7. develop a list of criteria for
appraising compositions and
performance
• Listen to Ligeti’s
Artikulation with the
graphic score, complete
the listening worksheet
and describe and analyse
the music characteristics,
such as:
i. pitch;
ii. rhythm;
iii. timbre;
iv. graphic notation;
v. mood
• Develop a list of criteria for
assessing compositions
and performances,
such as:
i. cohesion ofcomposition
and title/idea
ii. structure and duration
of the composition
iii. appropriate instrument
designed with suitable
performance ritual
iv. accuracy of the graphic
notation
v. accuracy of rhythmic,
pitch and dynamic in
the performance
• Conduct peer assessment
on composition and
performance based on
predetermined criteria
• Perform Ligeti’s
Artikulation based
on the graphic
score with
electronic
instruments
• Perform the workin-progress
by
classmates
• Perform the
compositions in
groups
• Create an electronic
instrument in
group from
scientific, technological
and mathematical
perspectives and
complete the invention
worksheet, such as:
i. frequency of pitch
ii. signal generators
iii. controllers
iv. modulators
v. modifiers
• Create a short
composition in groups
and complete the
composition planning
worksheet
• Make a brief oral
presentation on
instrument-building
and creation process
• Creativity
• Collaboration skills
• Communication skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Information technology
skills
• Mathematical skills
• Problem solving skills
• Self-learning skills
• Self-management skills
• Respect for and
appreciation of others’
work and performance
• Positive and active
learning attitude
• Observe students’
development in
attitudes and generic
skills to adjust the
learning and teaching
strategies accordingly.
• Use listening worksheet
to assess students’
ability to identify
the characteristics of
electronic music.
• Assess oral presentation
• Assess students’
composition and
performances based on
predetermined criteria.
• Scores, audio/video
recordings and a
listening worksheet on
Ligeti’s Artikulation
• Electronic building
blocks
• Computer
• Online resource
• Invention worksheet
• Composition worksheet
• Self-reflection worksheet
for creation
• Peer assessment
worksheet on
composition and
performance
* Learning Targets: CI – Developing Creativity and Imagination SP – Developing Music Skills Processes
CR – Cultivating Critical Responses in Music MC – Understanding Music in Context
Sources: Ligeti, György (1958). Artikulation. Mainz Germany: B. Schott's Söhne
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