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CreateKit Musical Instruments Kits

Build musical instruments to explore sound variables such as frequency and pitch!
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Students explore various elements of percussion by making drums and maracas, wind instruments like a kazoo or pan flute, and string instruments with a guitar or mandolin. After creating various musical instruments, students take a closer look at the differences and similarities between them and the sounds they produce. In the process, they learn about volume, frequency, pitch, and other properties of sound.

Set includes materials to create several musical instruments and lesson direction that outlines ideas to jumpstart lessons. The included lesson direction details setup instructions, activities by grade level, learning objectives, and teaching suggestions to expand lessons. Accommodates 24 students. Recommended for Middle School and up.

CHOKING HAZARD (1). Not for under 3 yrs.

Basic Kit includes:

  • Cardboard, 100 Sheets
  • Rubber Bands, Set of 320
  • String, 1 Spool
  • Construction Paper, 200 Sheets
  • Straws, Set of 100
  • Popsicle Sticks, Set of 1,000
  • Green Yarn, 180'L
  • Orange Yarn, 180'L
  • Plastic Cups, 50 Ea
  • Assorted Beads, Set of 1,000
  • Tape, 4 Rolls

Deluxe Kit includes everything in the Standard Kit plus:

  • Carboard Cutters, 4 Ea
  • Hole Punches, 4 Ea
  • Hot Glue Guns, 4 Ea
  • Hot Glue Gun Sticks, 1 Pack

For an overview of the lesson direction, click here.

Next Generation Science Standards*:

  • 3-5-ETS1-1: Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

  • 3-5-ETS1-2: Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

  • 3-5-ETS1-3: Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

  • 1-PS4-1: Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.

  • 1-PS4-4: Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.

  • 4-PS3-2: Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

  • MS-ETS1-1: Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment.

  • MS-ETS1-2: Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

  • MS-ETS1-3: Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among several design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each that can be combined into a new solution to better meet the criteria for success.

  • MS-PS4-1: Use mathematical representations to describe a simple model for waves that includes how the amplitude of a wave is related to the energy in a wave.

  • MS-PS4-2: Develop and use a model to describe that waves are reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials.

*The Next Generation Science Standards are a registered trademark of WestEd. Neither WestEd nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of this product, and do not endorse it.