Integrating Stem With Music

The book offers 15 fully-developed and classroom-vetted instructional plans and assessments span in age range from kindergarten through grade 12. With these instructional lessons for music and STEM classes, teachers in training, current educators, and administrators can better understand and immediately use tools for planning, assessing, and the practical teaching of STEM with Music.

This practical resource for music educators provides 15 fully-developed and classroom-vetted instructional plans with assessments that are aligned to articulate learning from kindergarten through grade 12. With these instructional lessons and adaptations for K-12 music and STEM classes, pre-service educators, in-service educators, and administrators can better understand and immediately use tools for planning, assessing, and the practical integrating of STEM with Music. As authors Shawna Longo and Zachary Gates demonstrate, the arts bring creativity and innovation to the forefront in STEM learning. This book helps music teachers make natural connections between science, technology, engineering, math, and music. To do so, the book frames twenty-first century learning skills and career-ready practices so that the creativity and innovation necessary to succeed in STEM content areas and careers can be directly addressed by the educational community. The connection that the book makes between STEM content areas and music stimulates inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking.

"This book serves to be a road-map for today's music educators who are tasked with promoting and fulfilling a rich arts curriculum, while still understanding and incorporating the realities and skill sets required in current and future job markets. Aligning Music to STEM challenges teachers and administrators to rethink the structure of traditional music education, as well as encourages universities to reimagine how they train music educators. It motivates schools and universities to explore their curricula designs and how ideas and lesson plans are being differentiated to promote the integration of STEM in the music classroom. This text outlines ways that we can carefully redesign curricula and explore new approaches that aim to provide students with new opportunities to problem-solve, create, collaborate, and experience the world. Abrahams concludes that as current educators, it is our responsibility to promote new ideas for teaching and learning that lead students to a successful, creative life.--Jamie Sokolowski"--

STEM In Music is a curriculum / program enhancing schools, businesses, communities, and industries Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematical learning concepts in Music. The purpose, passion, and plan implementing "STEM In Music" focuses integrating academics with natural creative abilities. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) offers multiple documentation applications, and scientific problem solving activities. STEM In Music documentation applications include: Technological Literacy, Systems, and Resources. STEM In Music Scientific problem solving skills include: Problem Statement, Design Brief, Getting to Know The Problem, Exploring Ideas, Possible Solutions, Testing, and Evaluations. STEM In Music Learn Activities include: Guitar Renovation, Guitar Notation, and Musical Instrument Invention.

Want to know how to implement authentic STEM teaching and learning into your classroom? STEM Lesson Essentials provides all the tools and strategies you'll need to design integrated, interdisciplinary STEM lessons and units that are relevant and exciting to your students. With clear definitions of both STEM and STEM literacy, the authors argue that STEM in itself is not a curriculum, but rather a way of organizing and delivering instruction by weaving the four disciplines together in intentional ways. Rather than adding two new subjects to the curriculum, the engineering and technology practices can instead be blended into existing math and science lessons in ways that engage students and help them master 21st century skills.

Now containing an interdisciplinary focus, many more songs, activities and techniques, and a new chapter on fundamentals, this book gives teachers the confidence, skills and techniques they need to successfully teach music.

The text introduces songs, instruments, sources of age-appropriate music, and methods of making music in a multicultural environment. With easy techniques for teaching young children how to sing, play instruments, move to music, create music, listen to music, and understand music, this text relates music to all subject areas.

Children are inherently musical. They respond to music and learn through music. Music expresses children's identity and heritage, teaches them to belong to a culture, and develops their cognitive well-being and inner self worth. As professional instructors, childcare workers, or students looking forward to a career working with children, we should continuously search for ways to tap into children's natural reservoir of enthusiasm for singing, moving and experimenting with instruments. But how, you might ask? What music is appropriate for the children I'm working with? How can music help inspire a well-rounded child? How do I reach and teach children musically? Most importantly perhaps, how can I incorporate music into a curriculum that marginalizes the arts?This book explores a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. This book guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children's lives through play, games, creativity, and movement. Additionally, the book explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, i.e., socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and linguistically.