Instrument Inventions: Inside Edition

I found a WebQuest called Musical Invention WebQuest that guides students to create a musical instrument with ordinary materials found in everyday life.  It has instructions that are short and sweet, but more instructions to guide students more specifically could have been useful.  However, the assignment is broad enough to instigate creativity in the students' instrument inventions.  Links are useful and insightful and are much more visually stimulating than the WebQuest.  Those links give suggestions, instructions, and even information on how instruments make sounds through sound waves.

In my class, I would love to use this WebQuest.  However, I would probably give more instructions to accompany the assignment so the students would not feel overwhelmed and lost.  They need to know what to do, especially for a first attempt at making their own instruments.  I would probably give the students specific supplies, such as something that uses a suspended rubber band to make a type of banjo, harp, or guitar.  Further activities could be more broad.  Students could actually use the WebQuest in its entirety by the time they had already made something similar to what the WebQuest asks for.