K-BLOG 7: Musical Integration
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The Challenge:
How can teachers achieve their classroom goals of making things interesting, fun, and challenging? How can they maintain student attention and enthusiasm for learning at a high level for a relatively long period of time? One way to achieve these goals and create a great learning atmosphere is with the use of music.
A Solution:
Often when my students entered the classroom, I would have music playing that brought out their smiles and laughter as they sat down before a lesson began. I would use what my students called “lame” music. These were old tunes that I loved when I was younger or songs from when my students were children. Disco Classics and One Direction were some of my favorites. I think the more outlandish the music, the more the music creates an upbeat learning atmosphere. Besides this fun non-science music, there are numerous websites (and YouTube) that have a large selection of specific science music and science music videos. It is a great idea to include some relevant music into lesson plans. There is a lot of music to choose from.
Resources:
They Might Be Giants. Here Comes Science. Wonderful collection of really different and fun science music by the band They Might Be Giants.
Greg Crowther – A set of Stem songs including some music videos
https://tinyurl.com/tmbgs
Science Songs
https://tinyurl.com/sfsng
