Rhythmic Musical Gear Machine

A 9 lesson activity where students connect events of WWI and understand its legacy through the creation of a museum exhibit using ceramics

Unit Overview


The Basics
Experiences:  Novice
Age Group:  15 - 16
Group Size:  40 - 45

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Tools:  Laptops

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Learning Objectives
  • Identify the most significant events of WWI
  • Organize the most significant events of WWI in chronological order
  • Understand the legacy of WWI
  • Create a museum exhibit about WWI
Performance Task
  • There are four sections of students of about 20-25 students and each section is responsible for creating an exhibit about WWI
  • The exhibits are: Beginning of the War (8 events), End of the War (8 events), Technological advancements of the war (10 items), Major WWI battles (7 battles)
Suggested Steps

For each exhibit students will be responsible for different things: one group will create a video reenacting interviews from WWI relating to their theme, the other group will be 
responsible for creating objects out of ceramics and creating a description that both explains the context of the event/invention and why they decided to make it that way.

The video group should be one third of the class, the objects making group should be 2 thirds of the class. Students will have the first week (5 lessons) to learn about the project, create the objects, run the footage they need for the videos and have everything they need to be finalized for the final week.

It is important that the ceramics is done during that week because then the ceramics can dry over the weekend and it will be ready to be painted the following Monday. 

The following week students will get to paint their objects, finalize their videos, and set up the videos in the space provided in order to be ready to open the museum.
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  • 1 lesson Training on Ceramics, use of iPads and breaking into groups.descriptions
  • 4 lessons Recording, building the ceramics object, writing down 
  • 3 lessons Painting Ceramics, setting up Museum, printing descriptions.
  • 1 lesson Finalizing project and getting ready for exhibit.
  • 9 lessons Total (approx. 8 hrs)