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Academic Lesson Plans & Modular Learning Activities

Welcome to the Academic Lesson Plan section of our website! Here is a collection of lesson plans that are aligned to standards and used and reviewed by teachers. Our original program focused on building electric guitars from basic guitar kits. We have many lesson plans based on electric guitars, but that are still applicable to ukuleles, acoustic guitars and other stringed instruments. We expanded our program to include CNC manufacturing of guitar bodies and necks, and we added lesson plans specific to certain skills. We also expanded to building acoustic guitars, and we added lesson plans specific to those skills.

Click on the title of the lesson plan to open that plan’s shared Google Drive folder. From there, you can download the lesson plan and any supporting materials.

Any Stringed Instrument Fret Spacing – Algebra
  Fret Spacing – AutoCad
  Fret Spacing – Geometry
  Fret Spacing Mathematics Activity
  Guitar Body Geometry Activity
  Mathematics of Musical Scales Activity
  Physics of Music Waves Activity
  Scale Length Frequency and String Tension Activity
Woodworking Adhesives
  Bending and strength of materials
  Know Your Lumber
  Material Properties of Wood
  Sharpening cutting edges
  Threaded Fasteners Activity
  Tolerances in Engineering Activity
  Tree growth
  Wood for Guitars Activity
  Wood selection
Electric A Prelude to Pickups Activity
  Boomwhackers
  Electric Guitar Anatomy and Cost
  Guitar Body Geometry Activity
  Guitar Electronics Activity
  Intonation
  Setup
  String Height Activity
  String strength
  Tooth Tunes
Acoustic Adhesives
  Anatomy cost estimate
  Guitar Body Geometry Activity
  Helmholz resonator
  Sharpening cutting edges
  Wood selection
CNC CAD fretboards
  Fret Spacing – AutoCad

 

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