Think about all the sounds you hear everyday, especially the sounds that make you move such as music. Music is produced by vibrations of sound which travel as waves. These vibrations are intercepted by your outer ear and travel through the middle ear to the inner ear. Your inner ear then takes those vibrations and changes them to electrical signals for your brain to interpret as music.
Even though all musical instruments produce sound through vibrations, they do not all work the same in producing those vibrations. All musical instruments fall into three main families: string instruments, wind instruments, and percussion instruments. In this web quest you will explore how instruments from these families create sound, what sound quality is, and how noise is different than music.
You will be assigned to a group with two other people.
Your mission is to:
1. Find out how different instruments (Winds, Strings, and Percussion)
produce different sounds. Each member in the group will research a type of instrument
and report his/her findings to the other members using the research guide provided.
2. Write a personally meaningful sentence for each of the vocabulary words covered
in this webquest.
1. If you need a review on sound waves and how sound is produced, click here:
www.newman.ac.uk/~k.james.smith/page5a.html
Make sure you understand the basics of sound before you proceed on to the rest of the webquest.
2. Get into a group of 3 people.
3. Each person in your group will choose a different musical instrument family on which he or she is going to become the authority. When you have chosen an instrument family, click on its icon below.
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4. Print out the research guide that goes along with your instrument family.
5. Use the information on the website to fill out your worksheet.
6. After you have filled out your individual research guide,
print out a group research guide. Each person will need his or her own group
research guide. Get back together with your group. Teach the other members of
your group about your instrument family. Listen to their explanations of their
instrument families. Use the information that they provide you with to fill
out the group research guide. Click here
to print out the group research guide.
7. On the back of your research guide, please write a personally meaningful
sentence about each of these vocabulary words: acoustics, frequency, horn, mouthpiece,
pickup, pitch, resonance, scale, tempo, and tone.
8. Extra Credit: After researching, “How sound differs from noise” explain how sound differs from noise. Include links to all web sites researched that were related to the topic. (Your explanation should be typed using 12 font and double-spaced. Complete sentences and correct punctuation are required).
Click here to print a copy of the evaluation for each member of your group.
Each group member will be required to evaluate themselves and each of the other members of their group. The following is the scale for evaluating:
5 The researcher answered all of the research guide questions, produced a meaningful sentence for each of the vocabulary words and did excellent job sharing his/her data with the rest of the group. As well, the researcher completed his/her summary and the extra credit assignment using complete sentences and correct punctuation.
4 The researcher answered all of the research guide questions, and produced a meaningful sentence for each of the vocabulary words and did an excellent job sharing his/her data with the rest of the group. As well, the researcher completed his/her summary using complete sentences and correct punctuation.
3 The researcher answered all of the research guide questions, produced a sentence for each of the vocabulary words and did a good job sharing his/her data with the rest of the group. As well, the researcher completed his/her summary but did not use complete sentences and correct punctuation.
2 The researcher did not answer all of the research guide questions, did not complete all of the vocabulary sentences, and did not use complete sentences and correct punctuation in his/her summary.
1 The researcher answered only a few questions; his/her work was hard to read and did not complete the summary or vocabulary section of the task.
0 The researcher did not attempt the task.
(Add the total scores together, then divide by the total number of scores received.)
You have studied the three different families of instruments: string instruments, wind instruments, and percussion instruments. You were able to explore different websites relating to these categories and learned about how each one works. You are now able to describe what sound quality means, how each family of instruments produces sound, and can explain how noise is different from music.
If you have any questions or comments, please contact us at
one of the following emails:
Emily Marks markses11@uww.edu
Katie Virnig virnigkm13@uww.edu
Brian Torner habbisht@yahoo.com
Mary King mmtkl63@yahoo.com
Kristy Kampe kampeke02@uww.edu