Tag: Science and songwriting
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Rock Creek Forest ES Stem Songs
If the moon could talk, what would it say to us? What might a shadow be thinking? What would a star brag about? What’s the purpose of a constellation? For four days, I worked with fifth graders at Rock Creek Forest Elementary School in Silver Spring, MD, to write, revise, rehearse, and record original songs…
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STEM plus Songwriting equals STEAM SONGS
What is a STE(A)M Song? Imagine the love song of an invertebrate…or a glacier…or a drone. In my new STE(A)M Song series, I’m using STEM-related concepts as metaphors for songs about love and life. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math and when you add (A)rt, such as songwriting to STEM, you get STE(A)M.…