"Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives,

thinks and invents." --Ludwig van Beethoven

We use music to create desired moods-- to make us happy, to

enjoy movement and dance, to energize, to bring back powerful
memories, to help us RELAX and FOCUS. Music is a powerful
tool for our personal expression within our daily lives-- it helps
"set the scene" for many important experiences.

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How Music Connects to

the Core Subject Areas
Research & Ideas Used in the
Music
Classroom

Music and Math

Students use addition
and subtraction skills
when working with
measures and beats:
Creating and/or
completing measures
using quarter, half,
eighth notes and
their respective
Musical
number notationof counts.
notes and
rhythms-are sets
of graphs

Music and Science

Instruments and Science

Size and Pitch:
Large instruments have low sounds
Small instruments have high sounds
Using Boomwhackers (plastic tubes that are
pitched to certain notes), you can build a
pyramid to visually show the students that to
support the pyramid, the large tube must be
on the bottom (and it makes the lowest
sound). The smallest tube must be on the top
of the pyramid (it makes the highest sound)

Music
and
Science
Other interesting ideas:
Glasses filled with different amounts of water-have
the students put them in order from the lowest to the
highest (the lowest will be the one with the least
amount of water; the highest will be the one with the
most water-the instrument is actually the air column
created by the space not filled up with water: smaller
air space = more water = higher sound
larger air
space = less water = lower sound
There are numerous songs and movement activities
that have a science focus to them.
The opportunities to connect music to science are
ENDLESS!!!

Music and..

Music and Social Studie

Happens often While learning these
songs, we also
when
teaching/learning learn:
Games
songs about:

Countries
Continents
States
Game songs from
other cultures
Folk dances from
around the world

Dances
Instruments-both
American and foreign
Rhythms
Songs in native
languages
History of American
music and world
music

Music and..

Music and Reading

Both music and reading rely
on the discrimination of
sounds from each other
When learning to read, we
learn how to relate letters to
their spoken sounds

Endless
Possibilities!!!
Music is constantly connected to
the core subjects of education
By its nature, music education
naturally addresses all subject
areas!