Integrating Music Into the Curriculum
MUSIC PRODUCES A KIND OF PLEASURE WHICH HUMANS CANNOT DO WITHOUT. CONFUCIUS


uHumans have an appetite for music
uMusic engages and changes the brain
uMusic is a significant part of life
uMusic is a vital communication vehicle
uhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmGe-LY5HQs
uMusic provides a foundation for learning
uMusic promotes physical and mental health
uMusic makes us happy

Define the word: Music
uBirds and whales sing
uNature’s music: a rain storm
uStomp, is this a musical performance?
uhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ7aYQtIldg
uMusic is a form of communication used to understand and express thoughts and feelings. Music is
not limited by words. The goal of music is not limited to sending and receiving information, but it
is expanded to giving beauty through sounds.
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Best teaching practices using Music
uConnect music to everyday life. Your phone ,iPod, computer, radio, hums, and whistles of the
people around us. uTeach children to make and respond to music. Instruments? Make them. uResearch
indicates that background music has a positive temporary effect on student learning. For a greater
positive effect on learning, students need to learn the literacy of music. This means the classroom
teacher and the music teacher need to collaborate to teach reading and writing music.
uhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKILwVH_MdM

Your challenge
uWith the materials I brought for you, make a musical instrument and be able to demonstrate how to
“ play” your instrument as well as how you can use it in a lesson integrated with another subject.
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u From your research on the internet, be prepared to discuss one unique teaching technique
integrating music .Be sure to read about the Vienna orchestra’s practice of making musical
instruments from vegetables, the technique of making a musical quilt, water music,  pizza rondo,
making a sound mobile, or a sound collage.
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uI will ask you, as experts who have researched creative ideas of teaching music, to teach me how
to spend very little money to teach an arts integrated lesson with music and another subject.

Resources
uThe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame currently houses 52 lesson plans using rock and roll music to teach
History, English Language Economics, Social Science, and Psychology.
u“Interactive Music Strategies” by Michelle Lazar
uEdApps.ca “14 Ways to Use GarageBand in the Classroom”
uEdutopia.org Lucas Foundation that is a treasure-trove of information
uPrinceton Review Vocabulary Minute
uhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCxOebhito4&list=PLC991R0_bjfO48hu-OQluFTTRELd_kDsc
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