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Welcome
educators!
As the Slugs travel around the country doing educator workshops
or performing, we are constantly discovering creative and
unique ways that teachers have applied our music in their
lessons. We feel inspired to pass these good ideas on to
you, and to continually expand the possibilities.
We
have created this new section of our website to share ideas
about how Slug music can be used for teaching. We'll offer
some of our own lessons, and we invite you to do the same!
If
you have woven a curriculum around a song or even if you
have discovered a good way to teach a song, click on the
link above to post it here!
Please
share your ideas, thoughts and questions. We want to hear
from you. Scroll down to see this month's offerings.
Thanks
Solar Steve
Click here to view and print out the AEOE Workshop Handout
(which is about 23 printed pages long)
Download
excerpts from our workshops! We have converted pages from
two of our workshops to pdf format you may download here.
 Dirt
Made My Lunch (1.2MB)
Sun,
Soil, Water, and Air (1.4MB)
Name: Mar
Location:
Date: March 16, 2009
Comments:
Great job, slugs! This is Mar. A friend … of your music for over 20 years. Just to thank you ... I still use your music when I teach teachers and pass on the info so they will use your music. This week, we sang your “Lizards” song [from Adventures With Air CD] with my VPK class here in Florida. They loved it!
Name: Patrice Wilson
Location: Larrabee Elementary, Bellingham, WA
Date: March 27, 2009
Comments:
As a gift to our students (past and present), the 4 primary classroom teachers at Larrabee Elementary School would like to create a CD containing a dozen favorite songs that we sing with our kids. The first and second grade students will be singing the songs while one of the teachers plays the guitar. When we asked the children in our classrooms what songs we should include, the “Banana Slug” song [from Dirt Made My Lunch CD] was one that they really wanted!
Name: Joyce Storz
Email:jstorz@ChicoUSD.org
Telephone: 891 3119 ext 137
Location: Arbbutus Avenue, Chico, CA, 95926, USA
Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 at 00:09:59
Comments:Hi,
I use the Guided Language Aquisition Design model in my classrooom. I write poetry as background informatioon for all my science and socoal science unts. It is a lot of hard work, but once it is done, it is there forever. My students just finished a unit on wetlands. They know more about wetlands now that I do. We are now leaarning the names of the duccks because we are going to Grey Lodge soon. We are singing Butt's Up and trying to understand what it is like to be a duck out in the wild.
Name: Cindy Anderson
Email:granny@goldfieldaccess.net
Telephone: 515-448-4812
Location: 612 S.E. Second St., Eagle Grove, Ia, 50533, United States
Date: Monday, November 3, 2003 at 17:47:33
Comments:I am looking for some ways to make my first grade science curriculum more fun. My students love "Dirt Made My Lunch."
We always have quite a lively discussion about how dirt does make our lunch.
Name: Carola Clasen
Location: Long Beach, California
Date: Monday, March 31, 2003 at 16:03:15
Comments:I love the Garden Songs CD!
(Miss the Nature Man Rap that was on the tape, though.)
In my second grade classroom, at a test-score driven inner-city school,
I justify the time I spend introducing the songs and we spend singing them,
by calling it language arts and word study. I use the printed lyrics of the
songs to teach parts of speech. For one song we might highlight all the nouns,
for another, the adjectives. This makes learning fun for all of us and gets music
and science into our curriculum. Hooray!
Santa Cruz, California, 95060, USA
Date: Thursday, May 31, 2001 at 18:31:14
Comments:
MYSTERIES OF LIFE
Purpose: To introduce sun, soil, water and air as being the
building blocks for all living things, everything we eat and
everything we wear.
Materials: Three black film containers with lids. One contains
soil and one should contain water.
Action:
1. "I have in these three jars the four mysteries of
life. Without these four mysteries there wouldn't be any food,
I wouldn't have this shirt, there wouldn't be anything alive,
we wouldn't even be here. Everything on earth depends on these
four mysteries."
2. "Who would like to look in mystery jar #1?" Toss
the jar to them and instruct them to shake the jar and to
think about what is in it and then pour out the contents into
their hand so that everyone can see. It's dirt or another
name for it is soil.
3. "Who would like to look in jar #2?" Repeat the
same procedure only this time instruct the student to fling
the contents of the jar into the air. Water!
4. "Who would like to look in jar #3? Remember that this
jar has two mysteries in it and when you open it you may have
to think a little bit about what is in it. Yes! Air is one
of the mysteries now quick put the top back on. The last mystery
isn't there. Take the top off. It just rushed in. Yes! it's
light. Where does our light come from? The sun."
5. Teach the sun, soil, water and air chant. The chant is
a call and response with each line. (this is recorded on the
"Dirt Made My Lunch" CD)
Sun, soil, water and air (group repeats after each line)
Sun, soil, water and air
Everything we eat
And everything we wear
Everything comes from
Everything comes from...
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