Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
-Plato

Listen. Learn. Live.

Listen. Learn. Live.

Music + Science = Fun

Focus: Science - experimentation


  
In this lesson plan, created by PBS, students have the opportunity to act as scientists as they conduct conduct their own experiments to observe people's responses to music!




Grades 5-8: Science
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/musicinstinct/education/lesson-1-experimental-music/lesson-overview/81/

 
This PDF of the lesson includes links to songs and resources for students to use in their experiments.  
 
 

Overall, the lesson uses something familiar, music, to teach something foreign, science.  Students learn the valuable lesson of conducting research and following scientific procedure.

Standards met in Music and Science are as follows:


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