Percussion Family Assignment

You will work on this assignment after you have completed the K and W columns of your KWL chart.
You are going to read and take notes about the Percussion family from the internet instead of the reading packet.

1. Read this article http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/451167/percussion-instrument

2. Write down important facts about the percussion family. Be sure to include how instruments in the percussion family produce a sound.

3. Make a list of at least 30 percussion instruments from around the world.

4. Write down the names of 5 pieces of orchestral music that utilize percussion instruments. Name the percussion instruments used in those pieces of music.

You may also use the following websites.


http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/

http://datadragon.com/education/instruments/

http://www.playmusic.org/stage.html

http://www.dsokids.com/listen/instrumentlist.aspx?

http://library.thinkquest.org/22673/orchestra.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/11315/instrum.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0419

http://classicsforkids.com/music/

http://www.playmusic.org/stage.html

http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/textp/PercussionInstruments.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/15413/instruments/percussion.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/5116/percussion.htm