Science Musical Instrument

Ethan is in honors science at Lava Ridge.  His teacher has a different way of doing grading.  Everything is worth 5 points, no matter how many questions are on the test/quiz/assignment.  It makes it so you can miss quite a few and still get a good grade, but it also makes it kind of tricky.  Every trimester she offers one extra credit assignment to help students keep up their grades.  The extra credit assignment is worth 5 points, so it's a lot!

Ethan got a B+ last trimester and told me that he wanted to get a higher grade this trimester.  We talked about what it would take and he decided that he wanted to do the extra credit because it sounded like fun.  He had to make a musical instrument that could change tone and pitch.  Well, he procrastinated and I nagged....he procrastinated some more and I nagged some more.  We were getting no where.  Then the night before it was due I called in the big guns...Bryan.  He is a lot more reasonable than I am when it comes to grades and things.  Bryan had even taken Ethan to HomeDepot to find supplies to make the project.

So we talked to Ethan and he decided he would do the project.  He wasn't happy about it but the thing about Ethan is that he may not want to start it, but once he starts doing something, he has a lot of fun.  So he always feels good in the end, we just have to keep reminding him of that.

So they got out the power tools, drilled some holes, screwed in some things and voila...they made a table guitar.  And if you turn the knob, it will change tones and pitch.  It's pretty cool.  Ethan had a lot of fun playing songs on it and Courtney even got into the spirit and made her own guitar from a box and some rubber bands. 

In the end Ethan ended up having fun and he was glad he did it.

Here is his song: