What Plays What?
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Approach:  Station
Level: Year 4 and year 8
Focus: Listening to and recognising different instruments  
Resources:
Audio tracks on laptop computer
FRAME 268Kb
Questions/instructions:

This activity uses the computer.
On the computer you will be listening to music and looking
at some pictures.
Click on the button that says What Plays What?
[Simulated resource images.]
 
% responses
2008 ('04)
y4
y8
1.
  accordian harmonica pipe organ
44 (49) 62 (67)
2.
  banjo sitar guitar
61 (59) 77 (77)
3.
  pütätara köauau pükäea
61 (55) 75 (76)
4.
  violin sao duang cello
29 (29) 38 (55)
5.
  trumpet trombone saxaphone
38 (36) 57 (51)
6.
  long drum timpani snare drum
30 (29) 37 (35)


Total score:
 5–6 7 (7) 22 (26)
4 20 (16) 29 (30)
3 29 (27) 24 (23)
2 22 (30) 17 (15)
0–1 22 (20)
8 (6)
Subgroup Analysis [Click on charts to enlarge] :
Year 4
Year 8
Commentary:
Students were least successful at identifying cello and timpani. Year 8 students performed better than year 4 students. Pakeha students averaged higher than Mäori and Pasifika students at year 8 level only.