Subject: Re: [MK8] End of the Year Activites

"Pipe Dream" is a segment of the video "Animusic 1" (available at MK8);
after some creative people at Intel saw it, they decided to use their skill
& resources to make a real version of it, and you can see it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLdB0WEixjM. Hope that helps! -- Carol in
Texas


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Lori V.M. wrote:

> Please share the Pipe Dream instrument video! Sounds neat!
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Carol Parnell
> wrote:
>
> > We watched some of the Animusic videos last week during testing, and this
> > week we are drawing our own inventions of musical instruments of the
> > future. We did a quick review of the instrument families and watched the
> > Intel creation of the Pipe Dream instrument, discussing how something
> that
> > was a computer animated graphic became a real instrument, using parts
> > that could be real instruments and parts that are not usually thought of
> as
> > instruments (ping pong balls). Third grade has been studying inventing
> and
> > inventions in class, so it really tied in. -- Carol in Texas
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Shauna Close
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello everyone!!
> > >
> > > My school year is winding down quickly!! I know several of you will see
> > > students into June, but we are down to our last two week so school here
> > in
> > > Colorado!
> > >
> > > My 4th & 5th graders just finished up a Centers Unit on Treble Clef
> > Reading
> > > and Note Recognition 2 CLASSES EARLY!!! I will see them twice more
> before
> > > the end of the year, however I was planning on this Unit taking up most
> > of
> > > that time.
> > >
> > > Do any of you have any "tried-and-true" activities for the older
> > elementary
> > > students at the end of the year. I don't want to just put on a video
> for
> > > them to watch for the last few times I get to see them ...
> > >
> > > If any of you have some ideas you'd be willing to share it would be
> > greatly
> > > appreciated!!
> > >
> > > I do know I have the Animusic Videos .... Does anyone have an activity
> > you
> > > do while watching these?
> > >
> > > Thank you!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Shauna Close-Crossland
> > > Stratton SD R-4
> > > Liberty School J-4
> > >
> > > "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the
> > > imagination, and life to everything." ~Plato
> > >