Ask students to bring in a variety of paper from home. Each cooperative learning group will listen to and interpret the same song individually. The end product is four different initial interpretations of the same song. After the selection is made students can work together as a group using the scanner and altering the chosen design on Adobe Photoshop. The teacher creates an abstract collage that relates to a single piece of music.
Students view the collage while listening to the musical selection.
The teacher facilitates a discussion that includes locating the elements and principles of design that are found in the abstract collage. Lastly, the students work in small cooperative learning groups at the computer to alter the teacher's design with the program Adobe Photoshop. The teacher chooses the musical selection and plays it three times for the whole class to hear. This will give students a significant amount of time to sketch all of the patterns and vibrations they hear. Each student makes an abstract collage that relates to the musical selection.