Find Your Perfect Match! Beginning Band Instrument Scavenger Hunt

Find Your Perfect Match! Beginning Band Instrument Scavenger Hunt

This Scavenger Hunt is designed to teach beginning 4^th graders about band instruments.

It is sure to help students decide which instrument they might want to learn to play!

Good Luck on Your Adventure!!

Click on the links to find the answers to the questions.

(The answer key is at the bottom of the page)

Website #1- Ducksters Educational Site

A general description of the various types of woodwind instruments.

http://www.ducksters.com/musicforkids/woodwind_instruments.php

1. Will a bigger woodwind instrument make a higher or lower pitch?

2. How do you make a sound on the flute?

3. True or False- All woodwinds are made of wood.

Website #2- Ducksters Educational Site

A general description of the various types of brass instruments.

http://www.ducksters.com/musicforkids/brass_instruments.php

4. What part of your mouth would you need to vibrate to make a sound on a brass instrument?

5. What instrument plays the lowest sounds in the brass section?

Website #3- Classics for Kids- A service of Cincinnati Public Radio

A general description of the various types of percussion instruments with sound samples.

http://classicsforkids.com/music/instruments_list.asp?family=Percussion

6. What type of drum has metal wires stretched across the bottom that rattle which create the sound?

Website #4- Classics for Kids- A service of Cincinnati Public Radio

A general description of the various types brass instruments with sound samples.

http://classicsforkids.com/music/instruments_list.asp?family=Brass

7. Which brass instrument uses a moveable U-shaped slide to change pitches?

Website #5- Classics for Kids- A service of Cincinnati Public Radio

A general description of the various types woodwind instruments with sound samples.

http://classicsforkids.com/music/instruments_list.asp?family=Woodwind

8. Which woodwind instrument is made of a black cylindrical tube that has a mouthpiece with a single reed at one end?

Website #6- Be A Part of the Band- A viewpure link to YouTube

A live performance video featuring the various types band instruments.

http://viewpure.com/b7y75yjilrA?start=0&end=0

9. What are the three different instrument groupings in a band?

10. What instrument can you picture yourself playing?

Answer Key-

1. A bigger woodwind instrument will make a LOWER PITCH.

2. To make a sound on the flute, the musician BLOWS AIR ACROSS AN EDGE OF THE INSTRUMENT.

3. It is FALSE that all woodwind instruments are made of wood. Some are made of plastic and metal.

4. Brass players make a sound by blowing air to vibrate their LIPS.

5. The TUBA makes the lowest sound of the brass section.

6. The SNARE DRUM has wires across the bottom which creates its sound.

7. The TROMBONE uses a moveable U-shaped slide to change pitches

8. The CLARINET is made of a black cylindrical tube that has a mouthpiece with a single reed at one end.

9. The three different instrument groupings in a band are WOODWIND, BRASS, AND PERCUSSION.

10. ONLY YOU CAN ANSWER THIS QUESTION!!