Music+Tech-3+Kinds+of+Motion

__**Introduction:**__

Music technology is becoming more and more prevalent in our schools and over-arching music curriculum. With more access to computers, more students want to learn about music software and how to create music using means other than the traditional voice, band, and stringed instruments route. This lesson was developed to teach students a musical concept using GarageBand but the process can be applied to other software systems or using other musical concepts in a technology class.

__**National Standards:**__
 * Create: Plan and Make
 * Respond: Interpret

__**Objectives:**__
 * Given verbal instruction and visual representations, students will be able to identify and interpret pictures of the three types of motion on a worksheet.
 * Given verbal instruction and visual examples, students will create a GarageBand file using the three types of motion.

__**Assessment:**__
 * Teacher will assess students' ability to identify the three kinds of motion using the worksheet handed out at the end of class.
 * Teacher will assess students' ability to create the three kinds of motion in GarageBand by walking through the class during work time, helping individuals.

__**Preparation:**__ (This lesson assumes students have access to computers with GarageBand.) Three Types of Musical Motion: Be prepared to demonstrate each of these kinds of movement on GarageBand for the class. Print copies of the attached worksheet to help assess students after the lesson. Materials:
 * Similar - at least two lines of music, moving the same direction
 * Contrary - at least two lines of music, moving opposite directions
 * Oblique - at least two lines of music, one is stationary, the other is moving
 * Laptop with GarageBand
 * Projector and speakers
 * Worksheets (see attached)
 * Whiteboard and marker

__**Sequence:**__
 * Write "similar," "contrary," and "oblique" on the whiteboard.
 * Talk students through what each word means in relation to motion by asking them questions such as, "If you have two musical lines and you're using similar motion, how do you think the lines will move?"
 * Walk through the process of creating each kind of motion in GarageBand, projecting your screen so the students can see it and follow along.
 * Have the students create a new file in GarageBand. Their application assignment is to create 3 tracks, one for each kind of motion.
 * During student work time, check on individual's understanding of the concept and how to execute the three kinds of motion using the software.
 * Last 5 minutes of class: hand out the worksheet.
 * Collect the worksheets at the end of class to be used as another way to assess students' understanding of what each kind of motion looks like in GarageBand.

__**Follow-up Activities:**__
 * Find songs with examples of each kind of motion in them and play them for the class, pointing out each kind of motion.
 * Play songs for the class and ask //them// to identify different kinds of motion in the song.
 * Ask students to find examples of the three kinds of motion in songs and bring them to share with the class. (check appropriateness of lyrics)
 * Show students what each kind of motion looks like on classical notation software using Finale or another program.