Grade 4: Research and choose a simple instrument to make by hand

Objective:

• Cultural and Historical Context
• Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
• Research to Build and Present Knowledge
• Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
• Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
• Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.

Guideline:

1. Students will complete a search on hand made musical instruments at school during music class. (Students may also search on home computers.)
2. Students will build the instrument. Parents may help with nails or sharp materials, but the final product must be the students’ work.
3. Students will bring completed instrument to their music class during the first week of October.
4. Students should attach the form passed out in class with their projects
5. Students should prepare a short presentational report containing the following:

• Why the instrument was chosen
• How instrument was made
• Demonstration of how instrument works
• Short description of the learning experience

Grade 4 : Composers Guided Research Project (2017/2018)

Students will work in groups of 3 members. Each group will have a group leader. The group leader will communicate with the teacher and oversee the project flow. The group members will be responsible for the following:

1. Research and compile information to share about the composer
2. Include one song by your composer to play during presentation
3. Create a PowerPoint representing the composer
4. Research instrument used by the composer, as well as famous songs
5. include any other background information (history, regions, influences, etc) for the composer
6. Present the data to the class

Class 1

• Students will be assigned to groups and a group leader will be appointed
• Students will select a composer to research
• Students will fill out their presentation rubric

Class 2

• Students will research information for their project
• Students will record informational facts about their genre onto their presentation note

Class 3

• Group leaders will provide an update on groups progress

Class 4

• Each group will create a short PowerPoint presentation to share with their class
• The presentation should conclude with a listening example from the composer

Class 5

• Students present composer PowerPoint to their class

Class 6

• Students will play a game of 'Name that Composer', featuring songs from all 4th-grade composer research presentations

List of composers:

• Adele
• Louis Armstrong
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Ludwig Van Beethoven
• Irvin Berlin
• Leonard Bernstein
• Georges Bizet
• Johannes Brahms
• John Cage
• Ray Charles
• Kelly Clarkson
• Frederic Chopin
• Aaron Copland
• Duke Ellington
• George Gershwin
• Elton John
• George Fredric Handle
• Joseph Haydn
• Beyonce Knowles
• Scott Joplin
• Francis Scott Key
• Franz Liszt
• Paul McCartney
• Felix Mendelssohn
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Carl Orff
• Dolly Parton
• Franz Schubert
• Camile Saint-Saens
• Clara Schuman
• John Philip Sousa
• Igor Starvinsky
• Taylor Swift
• Pyotr Llyich Tchaikovsky
• Carrie Underwood
• Guiseppi Verdi
• Antonio Vivaldi
• John Williams
• Pharrel Wiliams