STEM: Engineering Activities – Students were grouped and then given 50 straws and a roll of masking tape. The challenge was to create a free-standing structure that could support a baseball.
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October Magic : Telling a Dynamic Scary Story with Explain Everything What better way to demonstrate understanding of musical dynamics than to use them to tell a scary story  using the Explain Everything iPad app. The story before the story The history of musical dynamics is so interesting. Before we started this activity, and as
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Using Aurasma in the Music classroom Since the beginning of this year, Aurasma has been a big hit with my students; it’s easy to set up and it’s way cooler than last year’s QR codes. I’ve been using Aurasma in the Music Classroom to create opportunities for exploring those who write and perform music and to
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RHYTHM WAR I’ll bet some of your students already know how to play WAR using standard playing cards. It will be easy to teach them to play the same game using a deck consisting of musical note value cards. I remember playing this game with my music teacher, so there’s nothing original about it. Rhythm
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Magic happened in my music classroom when we combined a study of musical form, movement, and a parachute. Anything large and colorful always brings excitement! Bright colors beg to be noticed, and BIG things demand attention. After my students spent some time listening to different pieces and discovering the difference between Binary form (AB) and
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I’m experiencing the most amazing thing in my life right now. With the encouragement of fellow tweeters, I started this blog to reach out for like-minded music teachers… people just like me…. struggling to incorporate all this new technology into my music classroom. Amazingly, just by sharing ideas, a whole new world of friends has
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QR Codes in the Elementary Music Class Nothing about this past week was normal, but amazing experiences happened in the middle of the chaos as we used QR codes in the elementary music class. Spirit Week! Have you seen that funny MAD TV clip about Bon Qui Qui at the King Burger?  This week, I
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I am using QUAVER in my music classes this year, and I can’t brag loudly enough about the quality of every aspect of this product. My students love it and are completely captivated by Quaver’s antics. In addition to using the Quaver curriculum as a launching pad for musical concepts, I’m also creating activities or projects that
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