GarageBand: Ideas for the Classroom

There are countless ways to use GarageBand in your classroom! Here is just a small list of ideas:

Create and print books to donate to other communities/countries - research the culture of whatever you are reporting on and compose music that matches

Compose music to go along with any presentation
Teach math when talking about beats and measures, and patterns
Relate time signatures to fractions
Music Theory - chords, timing, rhythm, notes, major vs minor, time/key signatures, effects, instruments

Teach rests in music by looking for the points in the audio recordings where the rests are (where they don't see the sound waves)
Create music that expresses a work of art, color, or shapes
Compose movie soundtracks
Work in cooperative groups
Record nursery rhymes
Create book projects
Science sound lessons (wave length)
Grade-level program rehearsal (record accompaniment with a USB piano keyboard)
Podcasts
Record interviews
Record reading fluency
Create song parodies - For example: History Teachers on YouTube, Rockstar Camp, Diane Main
Record song vocals with background music or karaoke tracks (be careful with copyright)

Uses:

1. Songwriting
2. Soundtrack creation
3. Podcasting and digital storytelling

1. GarageBand only runs on Apple operating systems.
2. GarageBand projects are difficult to change to .mov file format.

GarageBand Resources:

Song Parody Examples & Resources:

Last edited by:Katie Blunt