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Who is this activity for?
This activity is appropriate for older adults in an assisted living facility or for an family member that wants to connect with an older adult in their family.
The Need this activity is addressing
Through the annotated bibliography and interview it was identified that older adults can become socially isolated due to age and have a vast wealth of knowledge that should be shared. This activity involves a visual map and music playlist to create the story of the older adults travels throughout their life.
What is this activity?
This activity being used is a story telling experience where an older adult will use pins to represent all of the places they have traveled in their life and place it on a large map of the USA or of the world. They will then use the assistance of this music therapist, written instructions or an audio recording of instructions to create an associated playlist (on their streaming platform of choice) to musically tell the tale of all the places they have traveled. The result is both a visual and audio representation that can be shared with others who participate or with younger generational family members to share the experiences, stories and knowledge.
How is Music Involved?
Music is central to the activity in the playlist that the older adult creates including songs to represent different periods of their life.
How is UDL utilized?
Stories throughout generations are told in a variety of ways and information is conveyed visually through the use of the map, tactilely, through the use of the pins in said map and auditorily through the use of the created music playlist.
How is SEL utilized?
This activity addresses both relationship skills through the story telling involved and social awareness in one's ability to understand take in the perspectives and the diverse experiences an individual lived through.
Task Analysis (Steps) of this Designed Activity
Of Note: For the sake of this activity this task analysis & instructions are written based on an individual having both a map and corkboard.
1) Take the purchased map and lay it overtop the corkboard with the map side facing up.
2) Position the map so that it is centered as need over top the cork board
3) Take one push pin and push it into the top left corner of the map so that it goes through the map into the cork board
4) Repeat this same process with the three remaining corners until the map is firmly in place over the cork board.
5) Talk through the life of the older adult with them and assist them as needed
6) Place a pin in the map for every mentioned or remembered location of places lived or places traveled starting with birth and moving towards present day.
a. If an older adult is doing this activity themselves, place a pin for every lived location during your life and every place traveled to the best of your knowledge and memory starting from birth to present
7) Open preferred streaming service (Ex: Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify. For the purposes of this assignment, it with be using Spotify however I can add instructions to other platforms as needed.
8) Click this link https://open.spotify.com
9) Select the Hamburger in the top left corner (Three lines stacked on top of each other)
10) Select “Log In” or if you do not have an account “Sign Up”
a. If you select “Sign Up” provide a valid email address
b. Next create a password
c. Lastly create a username
d. After you see the message that indicates completion, refresh the page and repeat step 9.
11) Type in your username (or email) and password associated with your account
12) Select the “Bookstack” icon at the bottom of the screen, with the word My Library.
13) Click on the “Plus” symbol (+)
14) Select “Playlist”
15) Name your playlist whatever seems most fitting by typing in a suitable name and then select “Create”
16) Click “Add to this Playlist”
17) Select the Search bar
18) Type in the name of the song that represents the first place that you pinned on the map
19) Continue to type in names of the songs in the search bar that represent a trip, a place traveled or a place lived
20) If there is any song that is associated with a life transition or location that can be included as well
21) When you have added all of the songs that you would like to select the “Play” icon (It looks like a sideways triangle in a green circle).
22) Listen to the created playlist and look at the created map
23) Reflect on the visual and auditory experiences displayed in the map
24) Enjoy!
Adaptation
For individuals who have not got to travel or go places in their lives you could ask them to share impactful places that they have read about or seen on TV. The individual could then be asked, "What does _____ place sound like?" or "What songs do you hear when you think of _____ show/book?".
If individuals have not traveled, watched TV or read books, an appropriate question might be "When you would go about your daily routine, what songs would you think of? What's a song you'd want someone else to hear to understand your daily life?" "What songs would bring you joy that you'd want others to hear?"
Ex: If someone grew up on a farm and never left their farm, ask about the fields, the barn, the house, etc. Those can be different locations and can all have a song associated with them.
General Materials
A streaming platform of choice (Apple Music, Spotify, amazon music)
A Map of the United States or of the World, depending on an individual’s preference of what they would like to share
Cork Board & push pins
Adaptations to Materials:
If Cost is a barrier to entry an individual could print a map using google images and use colored pencils to make marks on the map. (Image attached below)
Printer
Colored pencils
Map of the United States or of Alternatively, an individual could chose to purchase a “Push pin map” Ex: https://www.conquestmaps.com/products/push-pin-world-map-pin-board-deep-sea-drift?currency=USD&variant=40180287438951&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping&stkn=3db9630a6190&absrc=Google&abid=&abcampid=17923788234&gclid=CjwKCAjw7-SvBhB6EiwAwYdCAYNb6VMZ7ipl67QldLSZQCupnUZLtxLIxVGFIpK5M2Yc4Bx88eC7VxoCs-cQAvD_BwE&utm_source=googleads&utm_medium=pmax&utm_campaign=3bm-pmax-top-sellers&gc_id=17923788234&absrc=Google&abid=&abcampid=17923788234&gclid=CjwKCAjw7-SvBhB6EiwAwYdCAYNb6VMZ7ipl67QldLSZQCupnUZLtxLIxVGFIpK5M2Yc4Bx88eC7VxoCs-cQAvD_BwE&gad_source=1
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