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Even More Homemade Instruments

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  channel and will try to post 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

Reading Comprehension Strategy: Synthesizing

is a great site for learning reading comprehension strategies.  The student side of the site explains the strategy and then let’s them try it themselves. There is a teacher side has a lesson plan and resources like graphic organizers and videos that I will use to teach the strategy before they try it themselves on student side.

The focus for this week will be on Synthesizing what they read with what they already know to get new ideas.

I’ll use the videos first to teach the kids about Synthesizing.

We’ll use a graphic organizer to practice the skill with a reading selection.

Then the kids get to try it themselves.  They will create a username so they can save their progress.  At the end of this activity they are supposed to be able to email their finished bookmark.  We’ll give that a try so you can see what they make.

Public Services here vs. Nigeria

During our Economics unit we will learn to identify public goods and services.  This video compares public goods and services here (actually California) verses Nigeria, Africa.

Public goods in California and Nigeria

Opportunity Cost

Opportunity Cost is what you give up when you make a choice.  Here is a video to help explain.

What is Opportunity Cost?

More Instrument Presentations

We are wrapping up our Sound kit.  As a final project, students made homemade instruments and presented them to the class.  Links to resources for homemade instruments can be found on this page.  I’ll post videos of the presentations over the next few days as I get them uploaded.