Final Project Idea

• How will student demonstrations of learning be more innovative in my classroom?
• How will I as a teacher move toward more choices for students to demonstrate learning?
• How can I share or celebrate my students’ work?
• How do I balance learning the tool and using the tool for learning?

For my final project I am focusing on developing a composition-based activity for the end of the first grade unity and variety unit.  The goal of the unit is for students to identify ways that composers use musical elements (specifically form and expressive qualities) to create music that has enough commonalities to create expectation in the listeners, but enough differences to keep it interesting.  I hope to have the students be able to choose their tools (traditional instrument, voice or tech based) for showing what they know in their songs.

FINAL PROJECT PLAN

Tools

Choice of:

     -pitched and non-pitched classroom percussion instruments

     -Yellofier on iPad

     -voice

 

 Task Guidelines

Working with one or two other composers...

1.  Create a musical idea that you can remember and play again.

2.  Decide how many times your idea can repeat before it starts to get boring.

3.  Decide how you will develop your idea to keep your music interesting.  Some choices are:

        - create a whole new section of music (form)  

                    Will you go back to your first idea?

                    How will you (and your audience) know when your song is done?

        - change something about your idea (tempo, dynamics, instrumentation, etc.)

                    How many times will you repeat your idea?  How will it continue to change?

                    How will you (and your audience) know when your song is done? 

4.  Practice performing your song.  When you are ready it will be recorded and shared with the class and on our music class blog.