Apple's free music and audio studio for Mac and iPad. Students record, loop, layer and edit sound and music.
Creative Amplify
Each student scripts and records a 90-second review of 'Of Mice and Men', reading two quotations aloud over a music bed chosen for the novel's tone.
Pairs record a podcast episode in which each partner argues a different reading of duality in Stevenson's novella, backed by quotations read aloud.
Each child records four body-percussion ostinatos on separate tracks and layers them into a 16-bar groove that builds up one part at a time.
Each child composes a 30-second soundtrack for a teacher-supplied silent storm clip, then lines it up with the video and fixes the places where music and picture do not match.
Students record ten sounds around the school site and turn them into a 90-second musique concrète piece by re-pitching, reversing and layering them in GarageBand.
Students compose a 90-second trailer cue for three orchestral sections, hearing each voicing choice as they make it and shaping the mix with reverb.
Pairs script and record a five-minute podcast episode that explains Plan 5 student loans to Grade 10, answering common myths with worked examples.
Pairs script and record a 45-second spoken answer in GarageBand to a question from Grade 1, such as where a puddle goes, re-recording until it is clear enough for six-year-olds to follow.
Creative Replace
Pairs compose a two-bar question and a two-bar answer on GarageBand's on-screen keyboard, set to the major pentatonic scale, and perform them live over a class drone.
Students use GarageBand's on-screen keyboard as their instrument to compose an eight-bar melody from four pitches, then perform it live to the class.
Each student programs a 16-step drum pattern with kick, snare and hi-hat, varies it, and writes a fill for the end of a four-bar phrase.
This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and grade. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.