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A Catalog of 250+ Pieces of Music Inspired by Serious Astronomy
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This new annotated guide (part of a series devoted to resources for enjoying or teaching astronomy) features over 250 pieces of music inspired by serious astronomy, including both classical and popular music examples. YouTube links are given for the vast majority, so you (or your students) can listen to them.

Among the pieces included is:
1) a Hubble Space Telescope cantata,
2) eight rock songs about black holes with reasonable science,
3) a supernova piano sonata,
4) a musical exploration of the Messier catalog of nebulae, clusters, and galaxies,
5) a moving song about Stephen Hawking,
6) Moon songs by the Grateful Dead, George Harrison, and the Police,
7) piano pieces “for children with small hands” named after the constellations,
8) operas about Galileo, Kepler, and Einstein,
and many more.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Astronomy
Performing Arts
Physical Science
Material Type:
Module
Author:
Andrew Fraknoi
Date Added:
01/24/2019
Environment/Earth Day Interdisciplinary Unit
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This approximately one-month long unit will encompass a variety of subjects mainly focusing on Science, ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Art. Culminating in a field trip to a nature center. This unit is easily adaptable to an English Language Learner.

Subject:
Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Environmental Science
Mathematics
Social Science
Material Type:
Module
Date Added:
08/10/2018
Interdisciplinary ELT Activities for Gifted
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This open resource is designed as an example of interdisciplinary activities on History, Geography and Arts to be used in ELT classes .

Subject:
Ancient History
Cultural Geography
Language Education (ESL)
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Languages
Special Education
Visual Arts
World Cultures
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Unit of Study
Author:
Emine Sayar
Date Added:
10/19/2020
Nickel-odeon
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In this activity, students use a piano keyboard to model spectral lines as musical chords. It is designed to aid student understanding of spectral analysis, what the patterns mean, how elements are involved, and how this relates to stars. Traditionally, spectral images are two dimensional, and related to text. This auditory activity allows students to "hear" differences in patterns of various elements (e.g., nickel or helium). This activity is part of the "What is Your Cosmic Connection to the Elements" information and activity booklet. The booklet includes photos, teachers notes and instructions, and a link to a color image pdf of visible light spectra that can be printed and used to do the activity. This activity requires a piano keyboard, color printout or construction paper and/or toothpicks (to mark spectral lines of elements).

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Space Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
NASA
Provider Set:
NASA Wavelength
Date Added:
11/05/2014
Terra Nostra Curriculum Resources
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The curriculum shared here utilizes Terra Nostra, a multimedia symphony about climate change. Variations of the curriculum were developed by Kim Davenport for use in several 100-, 200- and 300-level non-major music courses at the University of Washington, Tacoma. More than 50% of UWT undergraduate students are the first in their family to attend college, and nearly 60% are students of color.Depending on the exact level and subject-matter of each course, Terra Nostra was utilized in support of a variety of learning objectives:Building students’ listening skills, through the combination of music and video, and through the analysis of music without wordsDrawing interdisciplinary connections between music and other disciplinesProviding an example of music created to raise awareness about a timely social issueAlthough the assignments shared here were designed for music courses, they could easily be adapted for inclusion in courses in other disciplines, and this is indeed one of the motivations for sharing this curriculum through a Creative Commons license.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Author:
Kim Davenport
Date Added:
11/12/2022