November 2022-GarageBand

GarageBand is a fun and powerful mobile recording studio that helps you create original music, sound effects, and audio stories that can engage any listeners.

While this app may be slightly notorious for being  intimidating to users, small steps on your part will open up a world of  creativity for even your shiest students.  You can have your students make songs to reinforce vocabulary, record poetry verses, or start your very own class podcast! 

Lesson Integration Ideas:

• Use the "Fun" voice filters and let you students practice their skip counting or math facts . Bonus points if they can add a loop or two and make their own song showing off their understanding. 

• Have your students  pair up and 'interview' a classmate that is acting as an important historical figure. They can write and rehearse questions, and turn their interview into a mock-podcast by adding intro and closing music and sound effects. 

• Have your students show of their poetry skills by either reading an already -written poem (or one that they've written themselves) in rhythm, and adding music that matches the theme and mood of their poem. (App smash and include the audio recording onto a Keynote or Pages document that has the written poem with student artwork to accompany and really take the project up a notch.)