This term, our Year 1 and 2 students have been exploring energy in Science and Technology, with a focus on sound energy - how it travels, how we can manipulate pitch and volume, and how our ears hear sounds.
To begin with, students practised their skill in taking photos and adding them to a Keynote Scavenger hunt.
As part of our learning, students designed and created musical instruments from recycled materials, ensuring each instrument could produce at least two distinct sounds of varying pitch.
The students then recorded their instruments and incorporated these recordings into a song they composed using GarageBand.
Using Mark up, they even created their own 'album cover' to accompany their musical creation!
The students were highly engaged and immensely proud of their creations and there is no end to the creativity available in Garageband!
Have you run something like this in your class? What has worked for you? If so, please share in the comments below.
July 07, 2024
Thanks for including the photos Mary! Love the student created guitar - so creative.
I bet your learners enjoyed the process and are much more “tuned in” to music and sound science. Pretty cool that they made their own songs with GarageBand. You really took them from sound theory, to instruments to music composition. What a super way to get students interested and engaged!
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