Colours and mixing
ArtGrade 16 questions
Art
An AR classroom game for Grade 2. Learners can aim with their hands at the camera or play by tapping the screen.
This set has 6 questions in an interactive multiple choice activity.
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A look before you play
A few real prompts from the game to help you choose an activity for your class.
A run of high and low notes strung together until you know which tune it is.
They differ in how fast they vibrate: fast is high, slow is low.
It keeps everyone together, and keeps the pace steady.
Before you play
Practises telling melody from beat, understanding that high notes come from fast vibration and low notes from slow, that tapping the beat keeps singers together, that the so is a string instrument, and what a lullaby sounds like. Fits indicator ศ 2.1 ป.2/1.
6 questions, choose 1 of 3 - What is melody? (a sequence of high and low notes strung together) - How do high and low sounds differ? (fast or slow vibration) - How does tapping the beat help singing? (everyone sings together) - What is a lullaby like? (slow beat, gentle melody)
Play in a music lesson, about 7 minutes, whole class. Before the high-low question, pluck a rubber band stretched tight and then loose so children hear and see the vibration. Before the lullaby question, sing a short Thai lullaby. If the melody question goes badly, clap a familiar song without singing, then hum it without clapping, and ask which one is the melody. Play it linked to the class and the scores go into the gradebook.
- Melody: children often choose "a sound repeating at an even pace", the definition of beat they learned in Grade 1. Separate them with the clap-versus-hum activity. - High and low: the distractor "hitting hard or soft" mixes loudness with pitch. Use the rubber-band demo. - Listening carefully: some pick "sing along and dance to every song" because it is more fun.