Making Music Arts Ed 1

My goal was to have my students use critical thinking to discover why some instruments are capable of creating more than one sound and to create a simple instrument based on what was learned. This is CP1.5 in the arts ed. Curriculum. “Create music expressions and contribute to decisions about ideas, sounds, instruments and order.” First we learned about high and low pitches and what those terms mean. After that students looked at the following instruments in small groups: autoharp, boomwhackers, recorder, bells, chimes, and slide whistle. They were given the challenge to find the highest and lowest pitches first and then to discuss how the instrument construction determined this.