Waterman Music Night

For this community engagement I was given the tenth anchor standard, "Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and personal experiences to make art," and i was given 4th grade. 
For my experience students will be able to write their own story, I will lead a brainstorming session where students will be able to create characters and short plot that they want to put to music. Then we are going discuss how music can fit into the story we created. For example, what kind of mood do we want (something heroic, melancholy, upbeat, etc.)
For the next part we are going to use a website called scratch (scratch.mit.edu) to make our story come to life. This website allows us to choose from various backdrops, characters and sound bytes. We can even draw our own characters. This makes easier because the students will have already chosen the characters and the setting when we wrote the story so it will just be about adding sounds that the they go along with the story. This website allows you to create a script, so you can time out the sounds in a sequence, as well as words if that is what the students want. 
I think this experience will enable students to use their own experience and knowledge of stories to create a product that includes music and a little cartoon.

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Edit: 
For this experience my initial plan changed the moment student's started coming to my station. A lot of times the students just wanted to come over and explore how to use Scratch, and we never had to use the story. They played with the sounds, and created their own songs. This was different from my original plan, but it kept students entertained and engaged in a new experience with technology. If I were to alter this plan I would keep the technology aspect, using Scratch, but I could incorporate the Makey Makey and have students create their own song using various sounds from the app. In addition I could find another way to incorporate the story back into my lesson by having students pick a story and insert sounds where they thing it fits into the book.