Music to Make a Splash (Pre K-3)
Signing, playing and moving builds literacy skills. Let this engaging program splash the reading wave over your younger students.
Objectives
Using a variety of music, with a water theme, the student will sing, keep a steady beat on various instruments and move to a variety of musical styles.
Make a Splash Down at the River (K-5)
Learning about the River is much more fun when you can sing the questions and the answers!
Objectives
Using music with a water/river theme, the student will explore life down on a river including fish, fowl, frogs and friends. They will learn and sing original songs written for this interactive program.
Activities in this program support Literacy concepts and build strong readers.
Put on Your Scuba Gear: Discovering Sound Waves
(Middle School & High School)
There are 3 possible programs under this title, a String activity, a Wind activity and a Percussion activity. Each workshop lasts 60 minutes which will provide time for an introduction to sound waves, time to build the project and finally time to discuss sound waves.
Building a Stringed Instrument
Objectives
Students will construct a simplified version of a stringed instrument, using rubber bands as strings, and will use the instrument to explore the effects of various string characteristics on frequency and amplitude.
Pop Bottle Symphony
Objectives
Students will explore the effects of air column size (and shape) on the frequency and amplitude of standing waves in the air column, using empty glass bottles, and water if necessary to vary air column size.
Building a Percussion Instrument
Objectives
Students will assist in constructing a "found objects" chime, and will use the instrument to explore the effects of various object characteristics on frequency and amplitude.
For each of the Sound Wave activities each site will be responsible to provide material for the instruments that will be made.