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Soundscape Matrix

Technology Integration Matrix

Colorado Academic
Standards

ISTE
Standards
for
Teachers

ISTE
Standards
for Students

Blooms
Taxonomy

Constructivism

Gamification

Flipped
Classroom

Mathematics
1. Number Sense,
Properties, and
Operations
2. Patterns, Functions,
and Algebraic
Structures

Teachers can use

soundscapes to
create ways to
remember certain
algebraic
formulas.

3. Analysis, Statistics,
and Probability
4. Shape, Dimension,
and Geometric
Relationships

Students can record

themselves using
geometric terms to
describe a picture
that they are
looking at and
include background
sounds to help
provide a sort of
image.

Reading, Writing, and Communicating

1. Oral Expression and
Listening
2. Reading for All
Purposes

3. Writing and
Composition

Students can make

soundscapes and
record themselves
reading for practice
at home.
Teachers can
provide readings
through
soundscapes that
will get students
prepared for class.

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4. Research and
Reasoning
Social Studies
Students can
research a decade
through sound and
at the end create a
soundscape that
displays different
events, music and
other sounds that
are representative
of those years.

1. History

Students can
represent a certain
area a state for
example, and include
sounds that are
representative of that
state or are from it.
Like music that
originated there,
nature sounds that
are present, historical
events from that city.

2. Geography

3. Economics
4. Civics
Science
1. Physical Science
Students can go
through the water
cycle and include
different sounds for
water to help create
a rounded
soundscape.

2. Life Science

3. Earth Systems
Science

Students can display a

certain type of habitat
or ecosystem by
exploring it and
recording different
sounds and putting
them into a soundscape.

Differentiation
Learning Disabilities EEOs

For students who

have difficulties

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remembering
directions for
classroom
procedures,
teachers can
record little
reminders for how
to go about
certain
procedures that
students can go
through whenever
they need to.

Physical Disabilities
Gifted/ Talented

Musically inclined
students can make
soundscapes that go
along with a poetry unit,
so they get both the
writing aspect in, but
also add to it with their
own sounds.

Other
Reflection:
At first I was having a difficult time thinking of projects for this, but there are so many different ways to apply this! Imovie makes
the process fairly simple so I think that this could even be applied at a fairly young age, but may be a little less finished. There
are also so many ways that teachers can implement soundscapes that would be helpful to students and it is a quick little way to
integrate technology. I only had one hiccup during the process- I left the metronome on when I recorded my own sounds and so I
had to go back over and re-record. Also, creating a soundscape is the first step to making a movie so it is a stepping stone for
adding visuals. Another thing I like about this project is that students really need to work on planning in order to create one of
these. Along with planning it takes great creativity and different thinking.