Projects+-+Ideas+&+Resources

Example Project:

Find a piece of artwork, such as:




 * Discuss the image
 * Ideas - What would an elephant "sound" like? How fast would it move? Is it "heavy" or "light"?
 * Students create an "elephant" musical composition
 * Extension: [|The Blind Men and the Elephant]
 * Students could write a sensory poem
 * Sensory poem could be put to music:)
 * Students could study where elephants live
 * Musical compositions, (and artwork), could be embedded in map of an area where elephants might live
 * A similar project could expand from sights such as [|The San Diego Zoo Website]
 * Students could report on a chosen animal, create artwork, music, put items together in a podcast that could then be embedded on a map
 * [|Tool for Creating a Project Based Learning Checklist]
 * Tool for Creating a Rubric Quickly

More Project Ideas:

 * This is actually a project designed with the Wii music software, but could easily be translated into a project(s) utilizing GarageBand. Primary Cross-Curricular Project
 * Some great ideas that only need the added component of students actually creating their music in GarageBand! Music Across the Curriculum
 * Science/Literature/Art/MusicPlanetary Science  - Saturn - Holst - The Planets - Our Solar System...listen to 3 minutes....feel, see, what ways... how does it look to you. Use chalk to illustrate your planet or solar system theme and then create an accompanying cinquain.
 * Social Studies/Literature/Art/Music  - 1812 Overture- War of 1812 - write your own war theme - write a poem, a thesis, a research paper on the war. Select another historic event and write 4 measures of an overture that might depict the event. What does it feel, see, sound, like . . You can be a great composer as well. Don’t stop at 4 measures write more. Tell us what part of the overture this is. . .Think about events in history that had an impact on our country, our world. Write music to express how that event may have impacted Americans, humans.
 * Volcano Dance - The dance represents sea floor spreading. Underwater volcanoes at a mid ocean ridge create magma that hardens into new sea floor (the students are the volcano that erupts, starting low to the ground and standing upward with a large wave of their arms). This new sea floor pushes the old sea floor farther away from the mid ocean ridge (their arms go outward as if they are pushing away old sea floor). The old sea floor eventually subducts into the mantle and will turn to lava that will eventually erupt from the mid ocean ridge again. (They do a wave of their arms that goes downward, signaling a subduction zone. Their bodies also lower to the ground so they can then erupt again). Students create music to for the dance. (How would that sound? What would the tempo be?...)
 * STEAM http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=503844&backurl=/shelf/my

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