https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam STEAM-Focused music and movement activities. en-us 2021-09-05 22:52:21 UTC 2025-10-02 23:03:29 UTC hello@padlet.com rdevries246 https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1717829156 Encouraging students to thinking differently seek new ways to explore and connect ideas.
https://www.siemens-stiftung.org/en/foundation/education/stem-and-creativity/]]> 2021-09-05 22:57:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1717829156 rdevries246 https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1717829595 Activities centered on designing, testing, and brainstorming until coming up with an answer.
https://www.vivifystem.com/blog/2019/11/7/scientific-method-vs-engineering-design-process-which-is-used-in-stem-learning]]> 2021-09-05 22:57:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1717829595 rdevries246 https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1717829943 Activities specifically designed with a content area in mind. ]]> 2021-09-05 22:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1717829943 rdevries246 https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1717830449 STEM Curriculum includes the 4 C's of 21st Century Skills: Creativity, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Communication
http://cosee.umaine.edu/files/coseeos/21st_century_skills.pdf

]]> 2021-09-05 22:59:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1717830449 rdevries246 https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1734173174 Source: https://www.nps.gov/blca/learn/education/upload/water-2.pdf  

Activity:
This Water Cycle Song and motions can be a great addition to lessons involving the water cycle. Specifically involving 2nd-grade science standard (2.ESS.2) and the ways that water is present in the atmosphere. After investigating condensation, precipitation, and evaporation, invite students to write their own poem about the cycle. This activity can be used well in writing, as students can write their own poems or author a longer work. By using this poem as a guide, students can easily memorize the flow of water in the cycle, using motions and an easy-to-learn tune (She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain) to set it to memory.]]> 2021-09-12 20:41:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1734173174 rdevries246 https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1737035659 Source:
https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/cub_soundandlight_lesson1_activity1

In this activity, students will discover and mimic the types of wavelengths. Students will explore the ways in which light and sound travel, as engineers must study this information to build new technology. Students stand in a circle and move their arms up and down, making a wave (it looks like you're at a sporting even), representing a transverse wave. Then, students use slinkys to see the motion of a longitudinal wave before attempting to mimic it with their own bodies. ]]> 2021-09-13 18:18:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1737035659 rdevries246 https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1737107323 Source:
https://www.cbc.ca/parents/play/view/activity_musical_instruments

Activity:
Students are provided with materials: cardboard, rubber bands, ribbon, recycled plastic containers, sprinkles, old CDs, tape, glue, and paper. Students then are prompted to pick up some of the materials and try to make a musical instrument, considering the type of sound they want it to make, the size of the instrument, and the elements available. Let your imagination go wild! In this activity, students can learn about different ways to problem-solve, communicate with group members, and work together to present their idea and final product. A class concert or explanatory paper would work well to present each student's final project. ]]> 2021-09-13 18:45:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1737107323 rdevries246 https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1737138362 Source: http://pwhite228.weebly.com/sciencecreative-movement.html

Activity:
Students will explore the idea of orbits, tilt, speed, and direction through theatrical play. Representing different planets with their bodies, students will orbit around the sun (the teacher) who is in the center of the carpet. Using their research of the various planets, students will model the rotation around the sun. This can be paired well with independent research and study of planets and their orbit (5.ESS.1). This activity works well to be paired with math concepts, studying the rate of rotation, the degree of tilt, and the miles traveled by the different planets.]]> 2021-09-13 18:58:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1737138362 rdevries246 https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1737878878 Source:
https://inventorsoftomorrow.com/2018/08/18/scientific-method-songs/

Activity:
Provide students with the lyrics to the song, singing for them the line for them to follow. Sing to the tune This Little Light Of Mine. Help students remember the key to scientific thinking, inquiry, and the role of a scientist! This activity can be used as a precursor for any discovery lesson, showing students how we think, investigate, and learn. 

Lyrics:
The scientific method – I want to test it out (3x) Test it out, test it out, test it out
With this little brain of mine, I keep asking why (3x). Asking why (3x)
I observe and I research – I want to learn some more (3x) Learn some more (3x)
I form a hypothesis, an educated guess (3x). My best guess (3x)
I do my experiment – I wanna test it out. (3x)  Test it out (3x)
Record my data and report results – sharing what I learned (3x). What I learned (3x)
The scientific method – I want to test it out (3x) Test it out, test it out, test it out]]> 2021-09-14 01:43:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1737878878 rdevries246 https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1737900953 Source:
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/blog/sound-science-lessons

Activity:
Provide students with scissors and a variety of plastic straws of different sizes. Students are challenged to create different pitches with the straws, by cutting them at different lengths. Invite students to consider the correlation between length and the sound that it makes. Challenge students to match pitches, thinking about how they can make them sound the same, even when they aren't cut to the same length. This can be paired with math instruction, charting the lengths of the straws, and classifying them by their length and width.]]> 2021-09-14 01:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1737900953 rdevries246 https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1737978890 Source:
https://cmase.uark.edu/_resources/pdf/gems/rock_cycle_song.pdf

Activity:
Following the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat, students can learn the 3 types of rocks. Aligning with 6.ESS.2, this activity pairs well with creative writing as students can create descriptive poems and narrative about the features characteristics of rocks. This musical number is also a great feature for concert or assembly.

Lyrics:
SEDIMENTARY rock 
Has been formed in layers 
Often found near water sources 
With fossils from decayers. 

Then there's IGNEOUS rock 
Here since Earth was born 
Molten Lava, cooled and hardened 
That's how it is formed. 

These two types of rocks 
Can also be transformed 
With pressure, heat and chemicals 
METAMORPHIC they'll become. ]]> 2021-09-14 02:19:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1737978890 rdevries246 https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1738003766 Source:
https://www.edutopia.org/article/5-ways-explore-science-concepts-through-movement

Activity:
Have students run an obstacle course. Set up in the classroom, having students cut corners, jump over pillows, and spin around - two times, etc. The course can be built collaboratively by the class. Have students perform it with socks on, and then without. Invite students to discuss if there is a change in speed. Present the question "What do the socks do? Where do we see friction?" This activity is great in the study of forces and friction! This activity can be paired well with math concepts and timing the relays.]]> 2021-09-14 02:28:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1738003766 rdevries246 https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1738047203 Source:
https://twoteachingtaylors.com/easy-ways-to-add-movement-to-your-science-lessons/

Activity:
As an entire class, this activity drives home the idea of collaboration and communication. The entire group must participate and add to discussion for the element to work, supporting the development of 21st century skills and interpersonal skills. 

Challenge students to model the 3 different states of water. The entire class represents the water molecule. With their body, they must model the energy found in each state - liquid, water, or solid. Students must talk to each other and decide how to move and space out to correctly represent the energy level. This activity is perfect to get kids up and moving, being paired well with review of the concept and to help kids learn to communicate their ideas.]]> 2021-09-14 02:43:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1738047203 rdevries246 https://padlet.com/rdevries246/musicmovementsteam/wish/1739668445 Source:
https://peer.asee.org/fun-innovative-computer-science-activities-for-the-classroom-and-outreach.pdf

Activity:
Help students understand the science behind computers and how data is saved and lists are formed. Have students work together, using their bodies, or pieces of yarn, to link to and unlink from each other. As computer scientists add data, "add to front of list," "add to end of list," "delete from front of list," and "delete from end of list," students can envision how data structures are amended. Following commands from the teacher (the computer scientist) students can make the changes to the data structure, modeling the digital process. This activity is perfect for computer science lessons and the discovery of how our digital world is designed and functions!

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