Code. Create. Compose: Music Meets Innovation!
Unleash creativity and build coding skills as students become future composers! Through this engaging STEAM project, students design and program their own sound mixing board to produce, manipulate, and synthesize unique sounds. By combining electrical waves, they create custom instruments while exploring the fascinating properties and physics of sound waves. As they dive deeper, students learn about rhythm, chords, and melodies, and apply their knowledge to compose original music. The experience culminates in a showcase of talent where students can perform solo or collaborate with classmates to create an unforgettable ensemble performance.
Key Concepts
Wave types, wave shapes, frequency, amplitude, pitch, keyboard, synthesizer, PCB, microcontroller, electrical signals, speakers, coding, variables, RGB pixel, conditionals, variable math, low pass filter, envelope, switch/case, keyboard, function, music, notes, octave, scale, melody, beat, rhythm, music bar, transcribe, ensemble, melody, harmony, bass, chords
Essential Question
How can we develop a device that enables us to create and modify sounds that we can use to compose and play music?
Summary of Standards
Grades 6-8
Common Core ELA
Students will participate in collaborative discussions, use grade-appropriate vocabulary, and ask and answer questions.
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
Students will use mathematical representations to describe a simple model for waves.
Computer Science Teaching Association Standards (CSTA)
Students will design projects that combine hardware and software components and systematically test and refine programs.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)
Students will listen actively to interpret a message, synthesize information to create a new understanding and they will follow and give oral instructions that involve multiple action steps.
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