Here, the history of experimental music and sound art are used to integrate shared art making and free inquiry into an elementary science curriculum. The historic arc of sound art from Russolo to Bell Labs to Cage is used to activate student interest and situate student investigations into the nature of sound and vibration.

1. UR[BAN]SONATE K. N. Summers, Camden City Public Schools J. E. Summers, ARiA Consulting LLC Acoustics 08 ASA-EAA Joint Conference | Paris, France | 3 July 2008 Echoes of twentieth-century sound art in the urban elementary classroom

3. URBAN Learners

6. Situated Learning and Center Activities

7. Situated Learning A person’s intentions to learn are engaged and the meaning of learning is configured through the process of becoming a full participant in a sociocultural practice. - Lave, J. and Wenger, E. (1991) . People appear to think in conjunction or partnership with others and with the help of culturally provided tools and implements Salomon, G. (ed.) (1993) [Situated Learning] is not an educational form, much less a pedagogical strategy Lave, J. and Wenger, E. (1991)

8. National and State Science Teaching Standards

11. Deep Listening Deep Listening® is a philosophy and practice developed by Pauline Oliveros that distinguishes the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the voluntary selective nature of listening. The result of the practice cultivates appreciation of sounds on a heightened level, expanding the potential for connection and interaction with one's environment, technology and performance with others in music and related arts. The practice of Deep Listening provides a framework for artistic collaboration and musical improvisation and gives composers, performers, artists of other disciplines, and audiences new tools to explore and interact with environmental and instrumental sounds.

13. The fourth movement, long-running and quick, comes as a good exercise for the reader's lungs, in particular because the endless repeats … In the finale I draw your attention to the deliberate return of the alphabet up to a. You feel it coming and expect the a impatiently. But twice over it stops painfully on the b... The reader himself has to work seriously to become a genuine reader. Thus, it is work rather than questions or mindless criticism which will improve the reader's receptive capacities. Kurt Schwitters on Ursonate

14. D A D A Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism. Marc Lowenthal, Translator's introduction to Francis Picabia's I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, And Provocation (MIT Press 2007) But, as I have already said, words, by virtue of the characteristics we find in them, deserve to have another decisive function. Andre Breton One achieves an understanding … only if one changes the inner basis, if one is prepared to break with a thousand-year-old tradition. Hugo Ball

15. English sounds are organized into voiced and unvoiced sounds. With voiced sounds the vocal chords are vibrated and can be felt in the throat.With unvoiced sounds the vocal chords are not vibrated. Some consonants are unvoiced, but all vowels are voiced. Unvoiced consonants include:/p/ /t/ /k/ /s/ /h/ Voiced consonants include:/b/ /d/ /g/ /v/ /n/ /l/ /w/ /j/

16. Students understand vibration experimentally, scientifically, corporeally and in the context of language. They feel energy transformations as the vocal cord vibration of voiced sounds. They feel pressure waves as the rush of air when enunciating th ch wh and other unvoiced sounds.

19. By creating their own sign systems students memorialize and reify the learning outcomes from individual and group investigations.

20. John Cage Cartridge Music

21. Student Scores

23. Past performance in other, more traditional, areas of the science curriculm is not a barrier to success.

24. By framing science learning in the context of art, and specifically in the light of Da Da, students can disassociate the content from any limiting or negative experiences with traditional science instruction or the specter of NCLB