Game Profile: Game Title: Wii Music ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Genre: Simulation Grades: K-12 Peripherals Required: 1- 4 Wii Remotes and 1-4 Wii Nunchucks Peripherals Optional: Wii Balance Board Number of Players: 1- 4 Cooperative Multiplayer Game Summary: In Wii Music, the player uses both motions and button presses on the Wii Remote and Nunchuck to control a band of up to four Miis. Unlike other music games, Wii Music does not require the player to press specific buttons at certain times but only requires the player to move the Wii Remote and Nunchuck as if he or she were playing the instruments. Sixty-six playable instruments are available in the single and multiplayer modes, including the violin, cowbell, clarinet, harmonica, piano, guitar, trumpet, harp, shamisen, maracas, sitar and marimba, as well as unconventional instruments such as dog and cat sounds and pseudo doo-wop vocals. In addition, the Wii Balance Board can be utilized to play the drums. Wii Music features 52 songs that consist of a combination of Classical and Traditional songs, 7 songs from Nintendo games and 15 licensed songs. Alignment to AASL’s Standards for the 21st Century Learner: 1.1.9 Collaborate with others to arrange and create music within specified guidelines of the game engine. 3.2.3 Demonstrate teamwork by working to perform on a variety of traditional and nontraditional instruments with others on a diverse repertoire of music. 4.1.5 Learners will relate their critical assertions about Wii Music to its aesthetic, structural, acoustic and psychological qualities. Students will use concepts based on the structure of Wii Music’s content and context to relate music to other broad areas of knowledge. Alignment to NYS Learning Standards: Music Standard 1 Creating, Performing, and Participating in the Arts - Students identify and use, in individual and group experiences, some of the roles, processes, and actions used in performing and composing music of their own and others. Music Standard 2 Knowing and Using Arts Materials and Resources- Students use classroom and nontraditional instruments in performing and creating music. Music Standard 2 Knowing and Using Arts Materials and Resources- Students use current technology to manipulate sound. Possible Curriculum Connections: Music Education OCM BOCES SLS /August 2009 .