My students are young musicians yearning for more musical knowledge. We are beginning our third year as a school, in the midst of a pandemic. As a choice school, my students come from all over the district to our school to integrate STEAM into their curriculum. We laid the foundation for our music education journey for the past two years! Now it is time to build upon their knowledge!
As a STEAM school, we integrate all subject levels.
Students make meaningful connections between music and what they are learning in reading, math, science, and social studies. We are constantly looking for new ways to connect across subjects and create hands-on, authentic experiences to learn, feel, and express concepts.
"Tell me, I forget; Show me, I remember; Involve me, I understand," said Carl Orff. Music education should be hands-on and authentic. I believe Carl Orff was a music educator before his time, advocating for a hands-on musical experience where students get to sing, play, and move. We strive to accomplish that with every music lesson at my school. Students leave my classroom having sung, played, and moved with smiles on their faces.
My Project
Joia Tubes are an amazing option to use in a music classroom! They are pitched percussion instruments that are made of PVC pipes! In order to play them, you use a paddle (it looks like a ping-pong paddle with rubber on them) to strike them! They would be a great addition to the xylophones, metallophones, and glockenspiels in my classroom that we use to perform melodies!
Joia Tubes are also great to support teaching the science of how each pitch is created.
"Small is high and big is low, this is science we must know!" This phrase was taught to me by an AMAZING music educator - Artie Almeida! Joia Tubes really enforce this knowledge as students can visually compare the length of each tube to the sound that is created by striking them!
More than a third of students from low‑income households
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