Using the design cycle, students created original musical machines, aka “instruments,” using everyday recycled and repurposed objects. At the festival’s culmination, groups of instruments were combined to perform interpretive “sound stories.”
Part 1: What is That Sound?: Short listening & contemplation exercises
- Turning on Our Ears: Birds, Frogs, and Onomatopoeia
- What’s That Instrument?: Fascinating Instruments video collage
- Layering Sounds: Arthur’s New Power
DesignFest fabrication day
Part 2: The Science of Sound: Hands-on learning stations:
- How materials affect sound
- Sound vibration
- Frequency
- Traveling in waves
- Amplitude