Make Your Electronic Music!
Students learn about Bob Moog, inventor of electronic music instruments, and get to make and play their own mini-Theremin.
Case Study —
Buncombe County Schools
During the spring of 2024, RootEd partnered with Buncombe County Schools, Moogseum, Center for Craft, and Well Played Board Game Cafe for a series of Saturday morning camps focused on making creative products, and learning from professional makers.
What Makes a RootEd Team?
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The Student Experience
During RootEd projects and challenges, students make creative products that benefit real people and places while learning course content and community problem solving.
What will students learn?
Students learn about Bob Moog’s invention process with theremins and synthesizers, and then get to make a theremin of their own. Extension activities include having students make sound stories, podcasts, or soundtracks with their theremins and other sounds.
How will students learn?
RootEd was founded on the belief that the best way to prepare students, schools, and communities for tomorrow, is to engage them in solving the challenges of today, right in their backyard.
Students develop their community problem solving skills by working through the stages of Discovery, Development, Delivery, and Documentation on their way to a finished product they can be proud of.
8th Grade Social Studies – Understand how innovation and change have impacted the development of North Carolina and the nation.
6th Grade Science – Understand the properties of waves and the wavelike property of energy in earthquakes, light and sound.
The Teacher Experience
Turn your classroom into a problem solving studio that’s RootEd in Community.
We work with teachers across North Carolina who want to bring learning to life, prepare students for the world outside of school, and fill students with a sense of pride in their work and communities.
This is easier said than done given all the demands on teachers’ time and energy, and it’s even harder to do consistently.
That’s why we created RootEd – to make authentic learning more accessible and sustainable for all students and teachers. Our team of teaching partners and creatives work side-by-side with teachers and students, from pre-K to college, to integrate course content with community problem solving.
The Partner Experience
RootEd connects experts and organizations with classrooms to create mutually beneficial experiences and products.
RootEd showed us that there was a need, and that need aligned with McDowell County Tourism’s intent, which was to promote outdoor recreation as well as tourism. What better way than to align with RootEd.
This [project] showed me just how engaged students can be if you give them something close to home that means something to them.
Interested in working with students to create a field guide for your community, park, or area of expertise?
Our partners and experts present students with challenges, provide feedback on student work, and share their expertise through hands-on activities and field trips. Time commitments are flexible and range from as little as one hour to several hours. Reach out to learn more, and see how you can get involved.
RootEd showed us that there was a need, and that need aligned with McDowell County Tourism’s intent, which was to promote outdoor recreation as well as tourism. What better way than to align with RootEd.
This [project] showed me just how engaged students can be if you give them something close to home that means something to them.
