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    This unit plan outlines a 5-lesson introductory unit to teach high school students how to use the digital audio workstation Garageband. The lessons will teach students how to navigate the interface, create software instruments and loop tracks, mix and add effects, and compose a full song using various track types. Formative assessments include check-ins during class work, while summative assessments include a final mixed composition project incorporating all skills learned. The goal is for students to learn fundamental DAW skills that can be applied for the rest of the course.

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    This unit plan outlines a 5-lesson introductory unit to teach high school students how to use the digital audio workstation Garageband. The lessons will teach students how to navigate the interface, create software instruments and loop tracks, mix and add effects, and compose a full song using various track types. Formative assessments include check-ins during class work, while summative assessments include a final mixed composition project incorporating all skills learned. The goal is for students to learn fundamental DAW skills that can be applied for the rest of the course.

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    This unit plan outlines a 5-lesson introductory unit to teach high school students how to use the digital audio workstation Garageband. The lessons will teach students how to navigate the interface, create software instruments and loop tracks, mix and add effects, and compose a full song using various track types. Formative assessments include check-ins during class work, while summative assessments include a final mixed composition project incorporating all skills learned. The goal is for students to learn fundamental DAW skills that can be applied for the rest of the course.

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    This unit plan outlines a 5-lesson introductory unit to teach high school students how to use the digital audio workstation Garageband. The lessons will teach students how to navigate the interface, create software instruments and loop tracks, mix and add effects, and compose a full song using various track types. Formative assessments include check-ins during class work, while summative assessments include a final mixed composition project incorporating all skills learned. The goal is for students to learn fundamental DAW skills that can be applied for the rest of the course.

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    Unit Plan Outline

    Teacher: Nic Adams


    Unit Title: Intro to Garageband
    Grade: high school
    Number of Classes: 5

    MA Frameworks:

    1. Consistently apply research to generate compositional ideas
    2. Lead the production and sharing of an original composition
    3. Identify ways contemporary musical compositions pushes boundaries of the genre
    and discipline.


    National Standards: (Creating, Performing, Responding, Connecting)


    Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for compositions and
    improvisations that incorporate digital tools, resources, and systems.
    Describe and demonstrate how context, theoretical and structural aspects
    of the music and digital media/tools inform and influence prepared and
    improvised performances.
    Explain how an analysis of the structure, context, and technological
    aspects of the music informs the response.

    Rationale:
    This unit serves as the introductory unit to the whole course. Students will
    learn how to use the DAW that they will be producing, mixing, and composing in
    for the rest of the class.

    Essential Questions:
    -How does Garageband function as a workstation both technically and musically?
    -What is the difference between a musical instrument and a DAW? Should there
    be a distinction between the two?
    -How can Garageband be used produce a cohesive piece of music? What tools
    can be used to create dynamic, textural, rhythmic, harmonic, and melodic shifts?

    Enduring Understanding:
    -Students will learn how to navigate the user interface of Garageband which will
    be essential for the rest of the class. Using technology for a specific artistic
    purpose will inspire students to be creative in their use of tech rather than just
    see it as an everyday interaction.

    Behavioral Objectives:
    -students will be able to use Garageband to create software instruments, loop
    tracks, and drummer tracks, and to manipulate regions in the timeline
    -Students will be able to create layered arrangements with contrasting segments
    -students will be able to use mixing and effects to create a cohesive sounding
    mix
    -students will compose, arrange, and mix a full song using a combination of
    audio tracks, software tracks, and drummer tracks

    Assessment/Evaluation:
    Informal- periodic check-ins throughout class work time
    Formal-take-home assignments and group listening
    Long Range Assignment/Project/Product- fully composed and arranged
    track containing every type of track, effects, panning, and mixing

    Prior Knowledge and Skills:


    -students should have basic computer skills, and rhythmic and melodic
    recognition skills.

    Accommodations:
    (How does instruction accommodate for special needs and ELL students to
    insure equity?)
    -Apple accessibility options can make Garageband easier to use for differently
    abled people

    -keyboard shortcuts

    -Demonstrate everything in slideshow for class

    Activator:
    (First unit in curriculum)
    Hi class! Today we’re going to be using a program called Garageband. I know
    everyone here has different amounts of musical experience, some of you play
    instruments or sing, and some of you listen to a lot of music but don’t do
    anything formally, or maybe you’re here to try something completely new!
    Whichever of those you are, we’re going to get you making music by the end of
    this course.

    Repertoire:
    Various pop/rap songs recreated in Garageband (taylor swift, eminem, Outkast)

    Materials Needed:
    Projector with slides
    Speaker system
    Computers with Garageband

    Lesson Outlines
    (number the lessons in order and add as many as needed)
    (Lesson 1&2 fully fleshed out)
    Lesson 3

    Behavioral Objective
    Students will create a fully established form for their song using a combination
    of intro, verse, chorus, bridge, and outtro

    Assessment/Evaluation (proposed)
    Students will flesh out their song more by adding more sections to create a full
    form. Students will do this partially in class and partially for homework and be
    prepared to present at the top of next class
    Prior Knowledge and activator (proposed)
    Students will use their knowledge of tracks, looping, and the timeline to
    create their new sections.
    Lesson content (bullet points)
    -Intro-Analyze forms of popular songs
    -Have students define their two sections of their projects
    -each project must have at least a verse, chorus, bridge, and intro/outro that can
    easily be identifiable by other students in class->students work on creating these
    sections until end of class, teacher checks in periodically

    Lesson 4

    Behavioral Objective
    Students will mix their current projects by using effects such as compression
    and reverb, as well as volume faders

    Assessment/Evaluation (proposed)
    Students will present a fully mixed final version of their song next class
    Prior Knowledge and activator (proposed)
    Students will use their work from previous classes as the stems to be
    mixed during this stage
    Lesson content (bullet points)
    -Intro- listen to everyone’s fully formed compositions, discuss forms of each
    -Give class 10-15 min to re-evaluate projects based on class feedback
    -Begin lesson on mixing ->start with volume faders and demonstrate how that
    makes the track louder or quieter
    -Then, introduce effects, demonstrate reverb/delay and how that adds space to
    the track, demonstrate compression and how it effects dynamics
    -give students remainder of time to work on their mixes, continue for homework

    Lesson 4

    Behavioral Objective
    Students will present a final mix of their project

    Assessment/Evaluation (proposed)
    Students will present a fully mixed final version of their song, complete with form,
    software and audio tracks, mixing, and effects
    Prior Knowledge and activator (proposed)
    Students will finish their work that they have been building on from the
    past classes
    Lesson content (bullet points)
    -Students will have half of the class to make finishing touches and ask any
    questions to either each other or the teacher
    -Then, students will present their final mix in front of the class and receive
    constructive feedback from their peers. They may either submit the version they
    presented in class, or take it home one last time and change things that the class
    suggested to.

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