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Remix from Home

EarSketch Remix Lab for the 2020 Amazon Virtual Kids Week Challenge

Module 4 of 8

Students will code a song in EarSketch that is a minimum of 20 seconds but less than 2 minutes. The songs must include at least one stem from Ciara or Common and contain an uploaded sound clip from the student. Students should think about how they can add a personal touch to their music by recording some sounds from around their home and remix them with EarSketch audio clips to create a song that reflects their life now. Recorded sounds could be of the chime of entering another online class, the silence on a usually busy road, or the noise of all of their siblings at home together. Students will include one or multiple new sounds in their songs and use functions such as fitMedia(), setEffect(), or makeBeat() to remix the sounds.

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Learning Outcomes

Lesson Flow

Curriculum Materials

Objectives

Engage Students in coding in EarSketch
Explore connections between music technology and programming
Navigate the EarSketch Digital Audio Workspace
Edit basic code with EarSketch specific functions such as makeBeat(), setEffect(), and fitMedia()
Apply their creativity in creating or recording their own sounds to remix with EarSketch Sound Clips

Computer Science Standards

CSP Standards

IT-CSP-2 Create digital artifacts that foster creative expression including programs, digital music, videos, images, documents, and combinations of these such as infographics, presentations, and web pages.

AP CSP Essential Knowledge

EK1.2.1A Creating digital effects, images, audio, video, animations has transformed industries
EK 5.2.1A Algorithms are implemented using program instructions that are processed during program execution.
EK 5.3.1M Application program interfaces (APIs) and libraries simplify complex programming tasks.
EK 5.3.1O APIs connect software components, allowing them to communicate