Encourage tinkering with ideas, relationships, connections. Set up situations where students have to find information not readily available in school texts. Provide opportunity for students to design open-ended explorations of the concept. Provide multiple options so students can plan a unique "proof" of learning.

Create Original Improvisation

Objective: The student will create an original composition/improvisation.
Activity:
1) Write a melody variation of a given melody on staff paper. (The given melody will be notated and an empty staff available above for the student variation.) Be able to sing or play the given melody and your variation for the teacher or class.
2) Using the recording of the choir singing 12-bar blues as your accompaniment, practice singing an improvisational melody. You may choose to scat sing, or to make up words. Be able to perform your improvisation for the class.
Assessment: Quality of the student compositions/improvisations.
Standards: 1 or 2, 4