- After visiting several of the websites, complete one or more of these activities:
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- Build/Invent Your Own Musical Instrument. Get some ideas and plans at sites like Building Musical Instruments, Instrument Builders Pages, Build a Conduit-pipe Hammered-dulcimer, How to Build a Simple Hammered-Dulcimer, Making a Hammer Dulcimer, and Virtual Museum of Music Inventions. Then make your own instrument. You may want to follow a plan or come up with your own 'original' creation.
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- Complete a Musical Instruments WebQuest. Follow or adapt the procedu
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- History of a Musical Instrument. Select any instrument and use online resources and the library to learn about its history and development. If working in a large group such as a school class, you could divide yourselves - - each person or a small group looking at the instruments for the sections of an orchestra. Present your information in a HyperStudio, PowerPoint, or other type of presentation software where you can include pictures, sounds, and graphics with your text information. An alternative project would be to create a webpage using one of the HTML development programs.
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- Identify Famous People Who Play(ed) an Instrument. Create a bulletin board display that shows well-known people in varied career fields with the musical instrument that they played - - for example, Carl Sandburg with a guitar.
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- Investigate the Science of a Musical Instrument. Pick and instrument and investigate the science behind the sound. How does it Work? How are different sounds produced. Create a diagram or poster that explains what you learn to others.
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- Compare and Contrast Two Different Instruments. Investigate two very different musical instruments. Compare and contrast the two in terms of their design, the sounds they produce, the way that they are played, their history etc.
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