Title Instrument Creation Project

Creator Isaac Cardot

Subject General Music

Grade Level 7

Duration Time 50 Min

Materials Smart Notebook, Red Solo Cups (4 Per Student), Scissors,

String, Balloons

Essential Questions Can the students build the instrument?

Can the students perform the rhythm?

Can the students create their own rhythm?

WV CCRS MU.6-8.1 Sing songs and/or play instruments

MU.6-8.6 Visually and aurally identify musical instruments

MU.6-8.11 Improvise on percussion instruments

Learning Objectives The students will create bongos with given materials without
breaking the instrument in the process with 100% completion.

The students will perform rhythms on their bongos with 80%

accuracy.

The students will create and perform their own rhythms with
75% accuracy.

Academic Content Bongos, Beats per measure, Du-Da-Di

Language

Differentiation/ Focus students 1 and 2 will receive individual instruction and

Modifications and/or help with creating the instrument. The teacher may need to
Accommodations for build parts of the instrument for the students.
Focus Student
Rhythms on the board will be performed by the teacher orally
first and then echoed by the students to accommodate students
who can't see the board or struggle with visual learning.
Assessments Formative:
The students can build the instrument with varying
degrees of help from the teacher.

The students can perform rhythms by both echoing the

teacher and sight-reading from rhythms on the board.

The students can create their own rhythms that correctly

correspond with the time signature.

Summative:
The students can recall rhythms that we’ve learned
during these nine weeks and label them with the du-de
system.

Estimated Time

Review from Previous The teacher will perform rhythms orally and have students 5 Mins
Day/Introduction/ echo. Start with simple rhythms they’ve already learned like
Advance Organizer Du, Du-De, Du-Tuh-De-Tuh, etc. Practice the new rhythm
Activating Prior Du-Da-Di with the same process.
Knowledge

Engagement/ Begin by showing students an example of the final version of

Teaching the bongos they will create. Describe the process of building the
Procedures bongos from start to finish and the materials they will need.
5 Mins
Pass out 4 red solo cups and two cut balloons to students. Two
cups have the base cut off and two should be normal. The
teacher should pre-cut the cups and balloons for students.

Walk around and help students who struggle to get the balloons
around the heads of the solo cups.

Once most students have completed the balloon part, walk

around with a hole puncher and put two holes on both sides at
the tops of the normal solo cups. 25 Mins

Cut string for the students based on the length they need for the
bongos to hang down around their belly buttons.

Show students how to put the string through the cups and how
to tie it off.

Once all students have completed their bongos, gather their

attention.
 Perform rhythms on the bongos and speak them at the same
time. Have the students echo the rhythms only on the bongos.

Pull up the smart notebook and have students perform and sight 13 Mins
read the rhythms.

Finally, have the students do “question and answer” where the

teacher performs rhythms over 4 beats and then the students
improvise their own rhythms over 4 beats.

Summary/Closure Remind the students of the rhythms they have practiced today 2 Mins
and how they did on the bongos.

Let them know that tomorrow they will be taking a survey

about their thoughts for this class over the past nine weeks.

Personal Reflection Make sure students who have completed their bongos help
Self Evaluation students who are still working or struggling. Have all materials
that need cut other than the string ready before class.