MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE

HISTORY

  • Analyze different historical periods through their music
  •  Create a series of key dates in history “raps”
  • Teach/learn songs/music that were popular in previous eras (e.g. Gregorian chant, WWII songs)
  • Make musical instruments from the past & compose a piece using them
  • Watch films about the past & focus on the sounds of history

MATHEMATICS

  • Learn mathematical operations through songs, jingles, & rhythmic beats
  • Learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, & division through drum beats
  • Break a set of tones and/or rhythmic patterns into various groups to learn division tables
  • Play the “Rhythm Game” to learn times tables (slap thighs, clap hands, snap fingers)
  • Make up sounds for different math operations & processes

LANGUAGE ARTS

  • Use different kinds of music for different kinds of writing
  • Create song/raps to teach grammar, syntax, phonetics semantics, & other language concepts
  • Illustrate a story/poem with appropriate sounds, music, rhythms, & vibrations

SCIENCE

  • Learn to use music, rhythm, sound, & vibrations to reduce stress
  • Listen to the sound & rhythmic patterns of the environment (humanly-created & nature)
  • Try various humming patterns to see how they can alter your mood & awareness
  • Experiment with the effects of vibration on sand in a metal plate
  • Assign sounds to systems you are studying such as the nervous system, circulatory systems, etc

GEOGRAPHY

  • Listen to and analyze different kinds of music from different cultures
  • Play musical & percussion instruments from around the world
  • Learn the key characteristics of music & rhythmic patterns from different cultures
  • Create a sound/tonal based legend for a map
  • Learn & sing songs from nations/countries being studied

EXTRA CURRICULAR

  • Perform physical exercise routines in sync with music 
  • Turn a non musical play into a musical or into an “old time radio sho
  • Practice impromptu music composition using the “stuff” in your surroundings
  • Draw, paint, or sculpt a piece of music as it plays
  • Make up a creative/interpretive dance to a piece of music

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