STEAM and Project-based Learning in the Elementary General Music Classroom

STEAM and Project-based Learning in the Elementary General Music Classroom
Author: Meaghan E. Curry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2018
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"PBL, STEAM, and arts integration involve student-centered, multifaceted exploration of complex problems and questions and require that teachers adopt a flexible, reflective approach to teaching and learning ... The author offers an overview of her own experiences teaching music at a STEAM school and created outlines for projects that integrate music with English language arts, theater, science, social studies, and visual art."--Abstract.

STEAM-based Elementary General Music

STEAM-based Elementary General Music
Author: Melissa M. Spreeman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
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"Implementing STEAM [science, technology, engineering arts, mathematics] learning requires time, collaboration with colleagues, understanding of STEAM education, and resources, all of which are limited in the field of music education. ... This project will examine STEAM education and possible benefits of STEAM as part of music education, provide a conceptual model for creating an interdisciplinary STEAM elementary music classroom, and provide examples of STEAM elementary general music unit plans." -- Abstract.

Language Arts, Math, and Science in the Elementary Music Classroom

Language Arts, Math, and Science in the Elementary Music Classroom
Author: Kim Milai
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0190661887

Language Arts, Math, and Science in the Elementary Music Classroom provides a practical guide to help music teachers incorporate elementary classroom subjects into their curriculum using STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math)-inspired strategies, with added emphasis on social studies. It includes a complete elementary music curriculum for kindergarten, first, and second grades, and has cross-referencing charts for regular elementary classroom teachers to find music activities for their classroom. Importantly, it shows teachers how to include the artistic processes of creating, performing, responding, and connecting in their lessons. These processes make up the new music standards featured in NAfME's new Core Arts Music Standards. In order to maximize comprehension, the book includes assessment tests, sheet music, work sheet templates, and brainstorming activities centered on using technology to enhance composition projects. Lesson plans are organized by the calendar year, each inspired by the seasons, American culture, and world culture. These lessons may be used as is or used to generate new curricula altogether.

STEAM in the General Music Classroom

STEAM in the General Music Classroom
Author: Rachel E. Renick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2015
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With more and more schools choosing to focus on science, technology, mathematics, and engineering, it has become apparent that it is time for music teachers to begin considering interdisciplinary methods in the classroom. Researchers have shown that integrating music in the general curriculum increase student achievement. In addition, many studies have shown that integration with music helps motivate students to learn and improve their attitude. It has also been discovered that music can improve cognitive development, which is important for each discipline. With this information in mind, the purpose of this Capstone project was to develop interdisciplinary instructional units that can be used to effectively integrate music, science, technology, engineering, language arts, and social studies into the 4th grade elementary general music curriculum. Three units were created. Each is aligned with the Georgia state music standards and includes student learning objectives, teaching and learning procedures, advice for differentiated instruction, a list of materials and resources, and assessment strategies and instruments.

Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches

Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches
Author: Amy M. Burns
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2020
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0190055642

"Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches is a comprehensive guide to how to integrate technology into the popular elementary music approaches of Dr. Feierabend's First Steps, Kodály, and Orff Schulwerk It also includes ideas of integrating technology with project-based learning (PBL). It is written for elementary music educators who want to utilize technology in their classrooms, or possibly fear using technology but are looking for ways to try. It also can be used by new teachers, veteran teachers, teachers with very limited technology, teachers with 1:1 devices in their music classroom, and undergraduate and graduate students"--

Student-centered Learning in the Elementary General Music Classroom

Student-centered Learning in the Elementary General Music Classroom
Author: Casey M. Barker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2018
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" ... provides an overview of personalized, student-centered learning ... and provides sample standards-based lesson plans that utilize student-centered learning elements. This curriculum project concludes with implications for using student-centered learning in elementary general music."--Abstract.

STEAM Education

STEAM Education
Author: Myint Swe Khine
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2019-01-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030040038

This book looks at the value of integrating the arts and sciences in the school curriculum. It argues that this will help students further their understanding of analytical concepts through the use of creativity. The authors illustrate how schools can work towards presenting common practices, concepts, and content. Coverage features case studies and lessons learned from classrooms across the United States. The notion of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) is an emerging discipline unique in its desire to provide a well-rounded approach to education. The chapters of this volume examine STEAM in a variety of settings, from kindergarten to higher education. Readers will learn about the practical considerations involved when introducing the arts and creativity into traditionally left brain processes. This includes best practices for creating and sustaining successful STEAM initiatives in any school, college, or university. For instance, one chapter discusses novel approaches to teach writing with the scientific method in order to help students better present their ideas. The authors also detail how the arts can engage more diverse learners, including students who are not traditionally interested in STEM subjects. They provide three concrete examples of classroom-tested inquiries: designing a prosthetic arm for a child, making a paleontology investigation, and taking a closer look at the arts within roller coaster engineering. This book is an invaluable resource for teachers and teacher trainers, university faculty, researchers, and school administrators. It will also be of interest to science, mathematics, engineering, computer science, information technology, arts and design and technology teachers.

The Knowledge Gap

The Knowledge Gap
Author: Natalie Wexler
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0735213569

The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats: lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability. It was something no one was talking about: the elementary school curriculum's intense focus on decontextualized reading comprehension "skills" at the expense of actual knowledge. In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system--one that fellow reformers, journalists, and policymakers have long overlooked, and of which the general public, including many parents, remains unaware. But The Knowledge Gap isn't just a story of what schools have gotten so wrong--it also follows innovative educators who are in the process of shedding their deeply ingrained habits, and describes the rewards that have come along: students who are not only excited to learn but are also acquiring the knowledge and vocabulary that will enable them to succeed. If we truly want to fix our education system and unlock the potential of our neediest children, we have no choice but to pay attention.

The Social Studies Helper

The Social Studies Helper
Author: Denise Fawcett Facey
Publisher: R&L Education
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2010-07-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1607097524

Based on the highest levels of Bloom's taxonomy, The Social Studies Helper easily integrates technology into every core high school social studies course as well as two electives. These creative assignments are designed to appeal to visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles as the students are immersed in research, role-playing, art, etc. This is the resource book that you will turn to again and again throughout the school year. The Social Studies Helper is all the help you'll need, with innovative activities and projects, along with their rubrics and handouts, that are ready for use.