Through the music window

 
 

Incorporating Music into the Academic Classroom

Participants will explore ways to incorporate the aesthetic response to learning through integrating music with elementary-level classroom studies.



Using music to enhance children’s literature, language arts objectives, science concepts, math facts and functions, and social studies are only a few of the potential topics for this Playful-shop.  This activity-based, hands-on session can be tailored to meet the needs of many different academic groups, including Reading Teachers, elementary Classroom Teachers, and other Specialty-area Teachers who want to use music as a “window” to view a variety of classroom concepts and objectives.

Some Potential Topics:


  1. BulletMusic, Movement, and Math

  2. BulletBooks and Music

  3. BulletPoetry IS Music

  4. BulletUsing Rhythm and Beat to Enhance Learning

  5. BulletHome-made Instruments: an Exploration of Sound

  6. BulletInterpretive Reading

  7. BulletMusic in History