Students will collaborate in pairs to define and discuss their musical composition's emotional tone, explore Garageband's tools, and identify constraints while visualizing initial ideas using sound sketches.

Students will actively brainstorm and sketch musical ideas in Garageband, experimenting with digital instruments to express emotions in compositions, guided by essential questions, receiving peer and teacher feedback for meaningful ideation over two class sessions.

Students will formulate and storyboard their compositions using Garageband, making creative choices about digital instruments, Auto Drum beats, and melodies, while ensuring the compositions represent their intended emotions with standard notation and seeking peer feedback for refinement.

Students will use Garageband to create and test a musical prototype, incorporating feedback and reflection to express specific emotions in their composition.

Students will conduct tests of their Garageband compositions with buddy rooms, using specific feedback criteria to determine if their music accurately conveys the intended emotion, as part of validating their creative solutions.

Students will collaborate with peers to evaluate their Garageband compositions through a structured rubric, provide constructive feedback, and make targeted improvements to enhance emotional expression before sharing their final work.

Students will present their completed Garageband compositions that express a specific emotion to peers and buddy rooms, reflect on how their music conveys emotions, and discuss the creative journey by utilizing feedback and self-evaluation in preparation for graduation day.