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 WebQuest Description

This WebQuest has been designed to act as an Assessment Task for Stage Five Elective Music students undertaking the 200-hour course. It is based on the Group 1 and 2 Additional Topic “Music of a Culture”, with the Focus being on Music Of Indian Culture.

The task involves both Group work and Individual work in which both elements are assessed.

Activities within the Process have been orderd from those that rely on low order thinking skills (such as Quizes that rely on Recall) up to activities that promote the use of High Order Thinking skills (such as Written evalutations, analysis and comparisons) that call upon the use of judegment, oppinion, order and application.

Note: As you will notice in the rubric provided, not all of the activities listed in the process are being assessed. It has been arranged that only the High Order Thinking Skills will be formally assessed and Lower Order Thinking Skills will be informally assessed. However it is up to the teachers discretion which activities are assessable and which are not.

 Links to Syllabus Outcomes

The WebQuest focuses around the following Board of Studies Stage Five Music Syllabus Suggested aspects of study (for the topic Music of a Culture):

•  Traditional Music (Of India)
•  The cultural context
•  Stylistic Features
•  Notation

The Task and activities within the WebQuest have been specially designed to meet particular Stage Five Music Syllabus Outcomes and Objectives such as:

Life Skills Outcomes

Objectives:

• Develop knowledge understanding and skills in the musical concepts through listening as a means of aural awareness and communicating ideas about music in social, cultural and historical contexts.
• Value and appreciate the aesthetic value of all music.

Outcomes:

LS. 7 Experiences music from a variety of social, cultural and historical contexts

LS. 8 Communicates responses to a variety of music

LS.9 Appreciates a variety of music.

Composing

Objective:

• Students will develop knowledge, understanding and skills in the musical concepts through composing as a means of self-expression, musical creation and problem solving.

Outcomes:

5.4 Demonstrates an understanding of the musical concepts through improvising, arranging and composing in the styles or genres of music selected for study.

5.5 Notates own compositions, applying forms of notation appropriate to teh music selected for study.

5.6 Uses different forms of technology in the composition process.

Listening

Objective:

• Students will develop knowledge, understanding and skills in teh musical concepts through listening as a means of extending aural awareness and communicating ideas about music in social, cultural and historical contexts.

Outcomes:

5.7 Demonstrates an understanding of musical concepts through the analysis, comparison, and critical discussion of music from different stylistic, social, cultural and historical contexts.

5.8 Demonstrates an understanding of musical concepts through aural identification, discrimination, memorisation and notation in the music selected for study.

 Duration

The layout of the Process suggests that this Assessment Task be completed by the students in phases over the course of three weeks. However it is up to the teachers discretion how long Students spend working on each phase of the assessment.

For example if Students have three music lessons per week then they may be able to complete the assessment in one week breaking the phases of the process down into three days rather than three weeks.

Implementation Strategies

 This WebQuest has been specifically designed to act as an Assessment Task, however it is at the teachers discretion how they implement the WebQuest for learning.

For example:

• Could form the basis of an Entire unit on Music of India, with students completing the three process phases over a number of weeks be it 3, 4 or 6 etc (Depending on the number of lessons per week).