Instrument Research Project!

Recently, in our class we have been studying Physics of Sound. To connect with our unit, we began a research project musical instruments.  Each student chose a musical instrument to research and collect facts on. As a class, we decided to research the history, physical description, and how sound is produced by our instrument. Students used Popplet to organize and collect their facts throughout the research process. Please see our class example Popplet we worked on together below. Finally, students used a Google Doc newspaper template to create a newspaper about their instrument.  Each newspaper was to include 3 paragraphs, one for each of our subtopics, photos with captions, and fun facts.  Some newspapers even have hyperlinks to Youtube videos of famous people playing the instruments. Please click here to see our class model newspaper of the West African Kora. You might also want to explore student portfolios to see some of the work done my our class.