Our Grassroots Project

For this project, the students from Grade One will be showcased as well as the grade six Technology Team.  The students will identify, and classify sounds around them on an outdoor walk using such concepts as high/low/loud/soft/fast/slow and steady beat. The children will draw abstract pictures of some of the sounds they heard as well as there will be charts made of what was heard. They will be categorized, high, low, etc. A soundscape of the various sounds they heard will be created on the computer with the assistance of grade 6 students. Digital photos as well as sound will be taped outdoors as well.

     Music curriculum outcomes met through this environmental sounds project:

      a. Explore and describe sounds they encounter in school and  the purposes it serves in school life

      b. Explore and use dynamics and pitch to communicate thoughts

      c. Describe same/different and long/short

      d. Language Arts curriculum -contributing thoughts, ideas 
          and experiences by discussing, and asking questions

      e. Science curriculum outcomes - compiling data in a variety of ways