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: Trend Task: Melodies
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Approach: Station Level: 4 & 8 
Focus:   Listening to and distinguishing melodies 
Resources: Computer program on laptop computer
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Questions/instructions:
This activity uses the computer.
Click on the button that says Melodies. The computer will then tell you what to do.
[Each time, the student listens to three short tunes. Two are the same and one is different. Each tune correlates to a different 3-dimensional symbol on screen which animates while the tune plays. Student decides which tune was different and clicks on the symbol for that tune. The first phrase was an example to show what to do.

indicate which tune played for each symbol, with the odd one out in red.]

% responses
y4
y8
Example:
1.
pyramid
 
24 (39)
45 (56)
2.
sphere
41 (43)
51 (48)
3.
cube
70 (64)
89 (79)
4.
sphere
46 (41)
55 (48)
Total score:         4
6 (7)
16 (15)
3
18 (16)
29 (30)
2
36 (41)
35 (32)
1
30 (28)
18 (19)
0
10 (8)
2 (4)

Commentary:
About 20 percent more year 8 than year 4 students got at least three of the four components correct. There was negligble change at both year levels between 2000 and 2004.

 
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