The Rap Guide To Evolution
Intellectual rapper Baba Brinkman, known for rapping about the Canterbury Tales, delves into science in this album. Brinkman uses rhythms, rhymes, and brilliantly funny lyrics to discuss evolutionary concepts and what they mean to society. The album is available for digital download in both music and DVD form.
Read MoreSongs For Science Educators
Rhythm Rhyme Results sells a line of science-themed song collections for use as a resource in the 4th through 9th grade science classroom. Music can be a useful tool for memorization, and this collection includes material on biology, chemistry, earth science, planets, and more.
Read MoreScience Ed. Can Learn From Music Ed.
This article, published in the Cambridge Journal of Education, discusses the lack of critical appraisal and creative construction in science education in the UK. In their paper, Monk and Poston compare science and music education in the UK, and conclude that many of the skills lacking in British science education are taught well in British music...
Read MoreMath Through Music
From Oracle’s ThinkQuest project (“Projects by Students For Students) comes a site with a series of lessons linking math and music. “Math and music have always been considered closely connected in many ways. It is widely believed that students who do well in music also excel in math. Some research shows that starting music lessons at a young age enhances math ability . One...
Read MoreBiophilia Educational Program
A fascinating program leveraging music to teach various biological and earth science subjects. Biophilia link …
Read MoreHarmonious Connections
Another math / music resource: Math and Music: Harmonious Connections by Trudi Hammel Garland “explores the music of various cultures and the sounds heard in nature while highlighting the mathematical concepts, such as proportion, patterns, Fibonacci numbers, geometric transformations, and trigonometry, found in music.”
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