Music Ideas in the Classroom<=
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Ideas generated by the participants in=
the August
8th
Energize Your Brain Workshop
- Star Trek music for Science Lab
- Help students concentrate and sta=
y on
track
- Team Buil=
ding – use the music to communi=
cate;
help students express themselves through music
- Reading – use lyrics as poetry, th=
en
they can hear the actual song
- Use music to teach day of week, m=
onths
of the year, alphabet
- Social Studies – use music =
of
different cultures to learn about that region
- Classroom rules – one way to
teach rules with a “rap”
- Use music to teach rhyming
- Background music for study hall
- Take lines from a song and make
illustrations
- To close an activity
- Shake your “wiggles” =
out
- Songs that identify you
- Memory songs – continents, =
School
House Rock, etc.
- Use for vocabulary
- Use music during learning activit=
y,
then play music during test for memory retrieval
- Anticipation, deadline=
- Topic/content connections
- Exercise
- Engagement, movement, transitions=
- To calm
- To excite
- Music as a reward
- Tasks – “clean up son=
g”
- Help to get in touch with emotion=
s
- Non-English speakers understand m=
usic
sooner than they can speak it
- Incorporate opera – differe=
nt
types of music
- Earth Day song; continent song, e=
tc.
- Suggestion box for kids to play t=
heir
own songs
- In the computer lab
- Learning a new language
- Transition from class to class
- Nap time; clean up
- Three songs that would describe
yourself
- Welcome song; Goodbye song
- Time period music, themes, cultur=
es
- Loosen up before a presentation
- Use to help students be more will=
ing to
participate
- Mix on CD that represents a Topic,
Person, Here for a paper or speech
- Etc., etc, …