I found this really cool website the other day… it combines math, social studies, and music! It is called a rhythm wheel and in math, the students use it to find the LCM (Go to teaching materials, and then the short version of “lesson plan for rhythm wheels”). For social studies, they have great references to how different beats are used to make music in different cultures and the students can actually put several wheels together to make a song. They also have a page for each culture providing its history, traditional instruments, and lots of other great information. For music, this is a really great and easy way to get kids to express themselves and try out different mixes of beats and rhythms. To use/experiment with it, click on “run online version” on the left side of the screen.
http://csdt.rpi.edu/latino/rhythm/rhy_intr.htm
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