Grade 9
Music and Service as Action
Service as Action requires students to engage with their local community through community or personal projects and provides opportunities for students to explore, design, implement, and reflect on their efforts to positively impact their local environment. So how can we use Music to be of service to others?
Key Concepts
RELATIONSHIPS are the connections and associations between properties, objects, people and ideas-including the human community's connections with the world in which we live. Any change in relationship brings consequences-some of which may occur on a small scale, while others may be far reaching, affecting large networks and systems like human societies and the planetary ecosystem.
Global Context
PERSONAL & CULTURAL EXPRESSION is how artistry, craft, creation, beauty, and generational artistic expressions can influence the way we communicate ideas and share values.
How does service to others change based up the culture in need, as well as the culture offering aid?
Statement of Inquiry
SOI: Music can connect and communicate ideas across different cultures, languages, and societies.
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, all UN Member States adopted the 17 SDGs as aspirations for peace and prosperity. All the goals are areas of economic and social importance for current and future generations. The students selected one of these goals as inspiration for their original composition.
For this PBL (Project Based Learning), the students were challenged with creating an original song to communicate the importance of their selected SDG. How could they use music and sounds to help others connect to theses ideas and the urgency of this goal? We settled on creating music information videos. Through backwards planning, the students crafted their own plans, set the deadlines for their benchmarks, and discussed the desired learning outcomes for their project. As class, they settled upon Global Values and Awareness as the desired impact for their projects. This first formative is an original composition of their first musical theme. The students will receive feedback on their work in preparation for their summative project.
Please click on the student work tab to view their experiments.
Criterion B: Developing
How well do students synthesize the information into their learning?
Criterion C: Creating
How well do the students creatively and musically share their learning?
ATL: Communication
Using intercultural understanding to interpret communication