Vibrating Spoons STEAM Activity For young elementary students, we suggest starting with the dancing sugar experiment. Once your students understand that sound is vibrations, check out this great yarn and spoon experiment from Edventures with Kids that will help them explore sound even more.
Water Whistle Experiment Time to nail down the scientific process using this guided activity packet. You can download the packet and print the worksheet from it or access the printable worksheet directly here. Science-Inspired Playlist Wrap up your scientific exploration with this playlist full of science-inspired music.
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Musical Graphs and Equations Make your own music graphs and charts. While preschool and early elementary children can stick with simple tally charts, older children can gather data and turn them into bar graphs or pie charts. Follow these simple steps: Choose what information you’d like to track. Some ideas: Is the music in a
Xylophone Composition This composition activity combines music and math is such a smart and simple way. Children will get to flex their creativity and work on their basic addition or subtraction skills all at the same time. This blog post goes into even more detail, but the basic steps are as follows: Grab an instrument
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Dancing Sugar STEAM Activity This blog post from My Mundane & Miraculous Life contains two simple science experiments to help kids explore sound. We love the first experiment that makes sugar dance! Sound Wave Visualization with Dancing Sugar Cover a bowl tightly with plastic wrap or pull a balloon tightly over the opening. You may
Teamwork for Two (and more!) As any practiced performer knows, performing in a small ensemble, like a duet, can often require more concentration than performing in a larger ensemble. In a duet, you have to be completely aligned with the other musician – you have to listen to and hear what they’re doing, but you
