Collaborative Project

As an assignment for my online course, I was asked to consider what I might create as a collaborative project. It would be interdisciplinary, thus students could work on it in different "subjects" during their day and focus on the various types of concepts. My idea is for students to create their own musical instrument. It would have to play various pitches (perhaps the pentatonic, or 5-note scale) and be user-friendly. Students could touch on elements of sound in their science curriculum, write about their instrument for an ELA experience and compose and on it and notate for a musical experience. The kids could research how different types of instruments were developed through history and relate it to how their instrument evolved as they were creating it. The abilities to problem solve and think creatively would be developed during this project. The result of this project would be that students would have a functional instrument that could be used creatively and could reflect upon the experience of making it.