Create a Road Trip CD
While looking through lesson plans on the National Geographic website, I found a lesson to plan a road trip with students. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/01/g35/roadtrip.html I thought it would be a cool multidisiplinary idea to have students create a road trip CD. You could give each student an envelope with a destination. They would have to decide how to get to the destination by car. Then, they would assign a song for each state. Their choice of song would be accompanied by a paragraph explaining their choice. I think it would be a good way to investigate the music of different geographical regions. However, the fascinating part, critical thinking portion would come from students’ ideas and preconceived notions about people from different places in the United States. I think it would open the door for myths and stereotypes to be debunked. I would also be interested to hear students who have the opinion that musical tastes vary little from state to state. Try it and let me know what you find out from your students.
Tuesday 30 Jan 2007 | abarnett | Uncategorized
Great idea Amylia! I would be very interested to see what music they selected for each state, and the rationale would be even better. Let me know the results if you do this lesson. Very cool!
James
Amylia,
Interesting idea. My kids study blues and jazz music from different regions, like the Delta blues vs. Chicago blues. Of course, the first track of the CD would have to be Ray Charles, “Fifty-Nifty”.
Ann W.
Well written article.