Learning Experience Title:
Hey Cavey Baby

LEARNING CONTEXT

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

-What is the source of all music?

-How did early man find music?

CONNECTIONS TO THE STANDARDS

MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY

Standard 2: Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies.

THE ARTS

Standard 4: Understanding the cultural contributions of the Arts; Students will develop an understanding of the personal and cultural forces that shape artistic communication and how the arts in turn shape the diverse cultures of past and present.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

Standard 1: Language for literary response and expression listening and reading.

Standard 2: Language for literary response and expression speaking and writing.

PROCEDURE

INITIATING ACTIVITY

SOUND EXPERIENCE: The students are to sit in their seats and close their eyes. The class is to remain perfectly still. They are to just listen for 3 minutes. At the end of the three minutes they are to write on a piece of paper everything they heard while listening. The class is to discuss what they heard. Then discuss how listening was the beginning to early man finding that the sounds around them could effect how they feel. Have the students break into groups and discuss and create a list of the sounds that early man may have heard if they were to listen for 3 minutes. Have the groups share their ideas and as a class discuss how these sounds would effect early man and his emotions.

LEARNING EXPERIENCE

WHAT'S THAT: The students are to imagine themselves a member of a clan of early people. They are to pretend they were separated from the clan. They hear a noise they never heard before and they want to share it with the clan upon returning to the group. The students participate in these two activities as a result.

1. The students are to write a story that shares their experience. The story is to include how they got separated, the ordeals they encountered, the initial hearing of the sound, how the sound made them feel, and how they returned back to the clan. The story should be written in storybook form with the text generated on computer and the graphics added by computer or by hand.
2. The students are to find natural materials that will replicate the sound they imagined.

CULMINATING ACTIVITY

THE COUNCIL FIRE: The students are to bring their stories and materials to class. The class sits on the floor around the council fire and shares their stories and recreates the sounds they heard.

CLASSROOM MODIFICATION

To create an area for the council fire the room will need to be arranged to accommodate the students sitting on the floor in a single circle. A ring of stones will need to be placed in the center with added sticks to create the illusion and sense of a council fire.

TIME PERIOD

-Initiating activity and preparation for learning experience: 40 minutes

-Learning experience parts 1 and 2: homework assignment, 1 week

-Culminating activity: 80 minutes

RESOURCES AND MATERIALS

Stones and sticks for council fire

ASSESSMENT

RUBRIC FOR STORY AND SOUND