Launch
Students will explore connections among sound, rhythm, pattern, line, shape, color, and mood; gather initial feedback; and learn how their GarageBand songs and foam-print album covers will serve a lower elementary audience.
Days 1 - 2
🎨 Kandinsky Sound-Drawing Lab
Launch 58m
🎡 Artist-Musician Matching Challenge
Community Experience 60m

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Research & Listen
Students will practice evidence-based listening and viewing, gather firsthand responses from classmates, lower elementary representatives, musicians, and visual artists, and synthesize their findings into an empathy map and audience-needs summary.
Days 3 - 5
🎧 Listening Tests: Evidence, Not Guesses
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
🎀 Artist and Audience Interviews
Community Experience 60m
πŸ—ΊοΈ Empathy Map and Audience Needs
Deliverable 60m

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Ideate & Prototype
Students will turn audience evidence into a focused design brief, generate distinct audio-visual concepts, and build low-fidelity GarageBand and foam-print prototypes. They will test their prototypes with peers and community artists, complete two feedback-based iterations, and select an evidence-supported direction for refinement.
Days 6 - 8
🎯 Audience Evidence Shapes Concepts
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
πŸŽ›οΈ GarageBand and Foam Prototype Lab
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
🎧 Two-Round Prototype Listening Critique
Community Experience 65m

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Refine & Present
Students will refine their GarageBand songs and foam-print album covers through peer and expert critique, validate their design decisions with a representative audience member, and prepare an accessible Sound and Print Gallery for the final showcase.
Days 9 - 11
🎧 GarageBand and Foam-Print Critique
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
🎨 Musician-Artist Revision Studio
Community Experience 60m
πŸ–ΌοΈ Sound and Print Gallery Test
Deliverable 60m

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Showcase
Students will host a hallway Sound and Print Gallery for lower elementary classes, musicians, and visual artists, present their connected artwork and music, gather audience evidence, and reflect on their design journey.
Day 12
🎧 Sound and Print Gallery Showcase
Assessment 60m

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