Simple Machines in the Music Classroom
My 4th-8th graders were doing units on the six types of simple machines and I found this piece of music in the Orff Volumes that sounded like machines in a factory chugging away. The lesson focused on form, playing xylophones, and creating lyrics to go to a piece of music that was already written. There were so many possibilities and with my 4th graders I really wanted them to spend some time with the xylophones.
