Calling all Educators to share ideas, ideas, ideas!

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

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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)

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.

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.

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!

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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