Jean-Paul used the Live Loops chapter in the Everyone Can Create Music project guide to make a rap in GarageBand about one of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights articles.
Students were provided with a Numbers project template so they could step through the learning at their own pace.
They began by exploring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and used the audio feature in Numbers to record a short history of the declaration.
Students then took a closer look at the articles in the document, reworded them in their own language, and made an audio recording explaining how the ideas impacted them at home and school.
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Jean-Paul understands that when we ask our students to be creative, we must be the first to model the skills ourselves. So he wrote and performed a rap for the students.
Students were then asked to write their lyrics, use GarageBand to layer beats and record their rap, and add their completed song as an audio file in the Numbers template.
Setting essential learnings to music helps students form a deeper understanding of the content. Expressing the topic in a song shows they understand what they have learned rather than just remember it.
