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In our PizzIMMERSION program, teachers from The Pizzicato Effect share tools and experiences for generalist teachers to explore with their own students. These resources aim to provide students with a fun and accessible entry point into music-inspired learning.

PizzIMMERSION resources have been designed for two streams: Music and Focus, and Music and Engagement. Within each stream there are two levels of resources: Level 1 – Inclusion, and Level 2 – Empowerment and Leadership.

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Primary, Years 7-9 Focus/Engagement 5m

Boom, snap, clap

A useful brain break to encourage teamwork and coordination in a fun setting.

Primary Focus/Engagement 5m

My Bonnie

A useful brain break to practise using our singing voices and coordination.

Primary Focus/Engagement 5m

Classroom composition

To explore how music can be created incidentally from everyday environments, and to develop and create structure through these sounds

Kinder, Primary Focus/Engagement 5m

Roller coaster ride

To warm up voices for speaking and singing. Explores expressive and creative ranges of student vocal expression.

Primary Focus/Engagement 5m

Body Percussion Canon

To improve sense of pulse, rhythm and body coordination; to notice mathematical patterns

Kinder, Primary Focus/Engagement 5m

Same, opposite, complementary

To explore physical responses and interpretations of auditory and visual signals

Primary, Years 7-9 Focus/Engagement 5m

Pass the beat around the room

To engage students by keeping the beat in this fun activity

Primary, Years 7-9 Focus/Engagement 5m

Four white horses

To engage students through movement and voice

Primary, Years 7-9 Focus/Engagement 5m

One to Nine

To engage students through movement and voice whilst concentrating

Kinder, Primary, Years 7-9 Focus/Engagement 5m

Snake, Crane, Tiger game

To develop confidence through movement

Primary, Years 7-9 Focus/Engagement 5m

Sevens

To engage students by learning and performing a body percussion sequence – fun AND challenging!

Primary, Years 7-9 Focus/Engagement 5m

Poison rhythm

To engage students through call-and-response fun, and rhythmic practice

Kinder, Primary Focus/Engagement 5m

I am slowly going crazy

To connect movements with sound, refine coordination and build memory skills

Secondary, Years 5/6 Focus/Engagement 5m

The cup game

To engage students in rhythmic play

Primary, Years 7-9 Focus/Engagement 5m

Musical Masterpiece

To encourage individual and cooperative expression, combining visual and auditory art forms

Primary, Years 7-9 Focus/Engagement 5m

Zip Zap Zop

To develop a strong sense of pulse and rhythmic beat through a high energy focus game. It also provides an opportunity to explore pace, specificity of choice, “energy” and sequen

Primary, Years 7-9 Focus/Engagement 5m

Body percussion inspiration

To engage students through movement

Primary, Years 7-9 Focus/Engagement 5m

Conducting

To engage students to use nonverbal cues to communicate (as a conductor!), and give them a musical language.

Primary, Years 7-9 Focus/Engagement 5m

Listening to music: Create a story

To engage students in creating their own composition using story as the structure

Primary, Years 7-9 Focus/Engagement 5m

Listening to music: Play what you feel

To engage students by listening to music in a meaningful way, and encourage emotional awareness and response

Primary Focus/Engagement 5m

Telephone

To inspire efficient and effective communication between students, challenging them to listen carefully and to relay information clearly

Primary, Years 7-9 Focus/Engagement 5m

Pass the clap and sound effects (SFX)

To engage the group by creative quick-response games using rhythm and sound

Kinder, Primary Focus/Engagement 5m

Hide the item

To engage students by working together as a group to enable the ‘finder’ to reach the goal of finding the object through musical ideas

Primary, Years 7-9 Focus/Engagement 5m

Funga Alafia

To confidently sing the song then use the structure/format to create their own ‘verses’ using body percussion, vocalisation or instruments as desired.

Primary, Years 7-9 Focus/Engagement 5m

Obwisana

To practise beat keeping and work together whilst singing and having fun!

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