Using predetermined musical elements, either rhythmic or melodic, students compose a “music composition code” in small groups. Laying the individual lines of “musical composition code” on the ground, students add directional arrows to direct performers to the next line of “code” to create a larger musical composition.

This is an unplugged activity in which students work in teams, "programming" a human-robot to find all the quarter notes. It can be used to teach/review music notes. The notes could be replaced with materials for any other subject to review math skills, history, even parts of sentences.

Students will learn the basics of rhythmic literacy by correlating the number of syllables in a word to a rhythmic value. Students will select their favorite food that has toppings (pizza, ice cream sundae, cake, cookie, or sandwich) and create rhythmic patterns using words with varying numbers of syllables.