Maker Revolution

Previous to viewing this quest, I had never really heard of this movement, but it is quite inspirational. In today's world, we forget how easy it is to create, design, and market products. Also, I had not realized how effective this could be in the classroom. As teachers, we know that the more hands on an assignment is, the more our students are likely to take away from the lesson. In music classrooms, we are always playing different instruments, but we never really discover how and why these instruments work the way they do. The easiest way to demonstrate this idea in a music classroom is with percussion instruments.

Pictured above is a homemade bell. This would be a great project to use inside of a music classroom. This is a great way to teach students how the shape and size of an instrument can effect how it sounds. Striking larger flower pots is going to produce a deeper sound, while smaller pots are going to produce a higher pitch. Also, students could create hypotheses about their project. Does shape effect the sound of the pot? Does what the pot is made of effect the sound?

These are great ways to get the students engaged and even spark an interest in them for being makers. These students could invent musical instruments that have yet to be used in the world. 

Reference:

S., Gardener, G., Cummins, S. T., & Ettinger, B. W. (2018, January 16). Splendidly Creative {and simple} Homemade Instruments! Retrieved from https://www.howweelearn.com/spectacular-homemade-musical-instruments/