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The Final Homemade Instrument Videos

We have finished our Sound unit and made Homemade Instruments.  Students brought in their instruments and presented them to the class.  They told us about the instrument and how it worked.  They also had to explain:

1. How it makes sound and how we hear it.
2. How to change the pitch.
3. Extra Credit for playing a song.

I uploaded these videos to our  channel and I am posting them here.

Homemade Guitars

We are finishing our Sound unit and made Homemade Instruments.  Students brought in their guitars and presented them to the class.  They told us about the instrument and how it worked.  They also had to explain:

1. How it makes sound and how we hear it.
2. How to change the pitch.
3. Extra Credit for playing a song.

I uploaded these videos to our Schooltube channel and will try to post them here.

Homemade Instrument presentations 1

We are finishing our Sound unit and made Homemade Instruments.  Students brought in their instruments and presented them to the class.  They told us about the instrument and how it worked.  They also had to explain:

1. How it makes sound and how we hear it.
2. How to change the pitch.
3. Extra Credit for playing a song.

I uploaded these videos to our Schooltube channel and will try to post them here.

JA Homemade water chimes

Taking care of a Fiddler Crab

In sand, fiddler crabs have no problem digging burrows.

We have adopted out all our fidder crabs.  Here are links to sites that I found that tell you how to care for fiddler crabs.  Basically sand and salt water.  We fed them dried plankton.  You can find the supplies you need at a pet store or pet department of a store.

Fiddler Crab Care

Basic Fiddler Crab Care |

Keeping Fiddler Crabs as Pets

How to Care for Fiddler Crabs | eHow.com

CtryLuv’s Crabbie Cove Blog: Fiddler Crab Care

We still have millipedes available for adoption.

Changing Sounds activity

Try different ways of making sound with the activity below. If it is blank below, then you can follow this link

 

Homemade Instrument photos

As a culmination to our Sound kit unit, we made homemade instruments.  I posted more about the project here. Some even played songs on them.  The students really did a great job.  Here are photos of their hard work.

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Homemade instrument

We are finishing our unit on sound.  Our final project is to make an instrument.

I sent home this letter and scoring guide to explain the project.

I also sent these examples of homemade instruments.  This site also has ideas for homemade instruments.

Photos – Plant stages

We watched our Wisconsin Fast Plants grow through all the stages of its life cycle.  Here is some of what we observed.  We also observed the water transport system of a plant by watching blue water change the color of red and pink flowers.  These can be found in our Photo Gallery.

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