Integrating Music into the

Classroom
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Music Standards
Creating Anchor Standard 1: Generate and
conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Creating Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete
artistic work.
Connecting Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and
relate knowledge and personal experiences to make
art.
Connecting Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic
ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical
context to deepen understanding.

Music in the Classroom

How can music influence learning in the general classroom?
Music ignites
childrens
development.

Music can help

to signal
transitions within
the classroom.

Music can
help to build
community
within the
classroom.

Music helps create

a classroom of
creativity.

Music can help

to control a
classroom
environment.

Music
helps to
teach
literacy.

Music can build

background
knowledge and
support content.

Music can
help assist
with
writing

Music and Childrens Development

Intellectual
Multi-Sensory Learning-Enhances one's ability to retain information.

Social
Relaxed environment for communication with others.

Emotional
Manage feelings by listening to music.

Motor Skills
Improves balance and coordination of body.

Language

Music and Community within the

Classroom
Music acts as a tool to develop student-student and student-teacher
relationships.
A way for students to express themselves.
Acknowledges differences.
Singing songs helps to build community.

Music and the Classroom Environment

Music helps to create desired moods and actions:
Make us happy
Help us move and dance
Energize us and learning activities
Bring back memories
Help us relax and focus
Increase attention
Improve memory
Add fun

Music to Build Background Knowledge and

Strengthen Content
Helps to retain information.
Stimulates visual images of content.
Use songs to strengthen memorization.
Think Schoolhouse Rock, A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing

Music and Transitions

Can calm students for following cleanup routines.
Help to focus students thinking about new upcoming
content discussions.
Smoothes transitions.
Soothes tempers.
Used as signals to students to do special daily things:
call and response, clean up, move to places for
lining up.

Music and Literacy

Using Music for Close Reading
Present lyrics as poetry without giving them the clue that it is a
song.
Read text to locate rhymes, word choice, theme, and authors
purpose.
Listen to song
and watch music video and see if interpretation
of text changes.

Music and Writing

Lyrics of songs help ESL students with pronunciation.
Use Music to spark writing prompts.
Ex. Listen to a song. After the song, write whatever you were feeling inside.
Igor Stravinsky, Firebird"
Visualize pictures.
Feel Feelings.
Conjure up thoughts and place them into words.

Rhythms and Melodies in Music can

Help to create new characters for stories

Have you been paying attention?

Garageband on iPad
Navigating Garageband and finding its uses in the
general classroom.

Using Garageband to podcast

Steps to take for a successful podcast session:
Plan
Choose a Topic
Something that excites you.
Brainstorm ideas for your podcast
Use tools like Padlet to create a brainstorming map for the details of your
podcast
How long will the podcast be?
Will you only be talking or will you play music as well?
How many segments will you have?

Using Garageband to podcast

Examples of Segments:
Music podcast
1. Intro theme song
2. Welcome message
3. Announcements
4. Song intro
5. Song
6. Song intro
7. Song

Using Garageband to podcast

Examples of Segments:
Tech news podcast
1. Intro and welcome
2. Announcements
3. Top tech news headlines with commentary
4. Tech quick tip
5. Outro

Using Garageband to podcast

Examples of segments:
Book/movie review podcast
1. Intro theme
2. Welcome
3. Announcements
4. Book/Movie Review
5. Interview
6. Final comments
7. Outro music

Using Garageband to podcast

Produce
Use garageband to record your podcast.
Use music as you wish at beginning and end.
Edit podcast in garageband.
When finished, send to itunes to publish.

Select Audio
Recorder

Select OK to
start a
recording

Click the metronome

Using Smart Drums on Garageband to

explore Rhythm and Tempo
Smart Drums can help students to explore rhythmic patterns and
beat.
Also, students can explore dynamics (loud and soft) and the
difference between simple and complex repetitive patterns.
Rhythms created can be used within the podcast.

Each column in the matrix has a

built in rhythmic pattern.

Use Garageband to enhance creative

writing and performance poetry
Students can create backing tracks for podcasts, recitation, raps, and
sung melodies.
Instantly create, beautiful, shifting string melodies with the Smart
Strings Auto-Play function.
To build community and fluency, have older students read with
younger students (Reading Buddies)
Use, I Read to You, You Read to Me book as a resource

Start with the Smart

Strings for adding a
backing track to your
poetry.

The Autoplay function is

really quick and easy to use
to start composing right away.

There are 4 different

styles to choose from.
I selected Modern for
my example.

Click this icon to add

other instruments to
your composition.

I recorded a simple
drum beat to add to my
composition.

Slider Bar

I copied the drum pattern by

double tapping on the first
pattern. I then used the slider
bar at the top to paste where I
wanted the beat.

This is my bass line that I

recorded and added to
my composition.

Click here and drag to the

right to access mute,
single, and volume
controls.

Mutes single tracks.

Mutes everything,
except this track.

This icon lets you

change/add small
effects.

This icon lets

you add
simple
looping
patterns that
can enhance
your
composition
even more.

Listening to music and playing an

instrument
benefits your brain!