Description
You might be asking, “Why Music in STEAM lab”? Read Harmonious Integration written by STEAMwhiz’s cod-founder and program educator Allie Pulecio, to find out why music finds its rightful place in STEAM education.
CREATE – SOLVE – INNOVATE
Projects:
Engineered Designed Musical Apparatus ○ Digital Music Making ○ Coded Musical Robot ○ Minecraft VJ with Sonic Pi
Course Objectives:
- Foster a passion for music and its connection to science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics.
- Develop your inner musician as you are guided through the art of music programming using digital music technology. Create sounds, melodies, and rhythms through code, unlocking your potential in the world of musical composition
- Cultivate coding skills and computational thinking through music-related projects and applications.
- Hands-on physical computing activities to build interactive musical instruments and systems.
Explore Up
The Science Behind Sound & Music
Basic of music theory, rhythm, melody, and harmony
Physics of sound waves
Create Sound and Music with everyday objects
Skill Up
Coding & Music Application Software
Coding Fundamentals – Scratch, Sonic Pi, Python
Create sounds, melodies, & rhythms using tech and code
Music Development in Game Mode
Build Up
Putting it All Together!
Become a Coding DJ
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The STEAM-Team
The lab is overseen by STEAMwhiz’s co-founder and scientist Dr. J who holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences. Dr. J has worked as a physicist at premier U.S. research institutions, as well as an engineer at fortune 500 companies, and authored over a dozen publications in top-tier journals. Allie Pulecio, co-founder and program director, makes up the other half of the STEAM-Team. She is certified in K-6th education, published STEM education work in a peer-reviewed journal, and has over 20 years of classroom experience and curriculum development. Together they are driven by their passion to empower students to develop their analytical and critical thinking, necessary to become creative problem-solvers for the future.
Our Method of Success
Eliminate the fear and allow our children the time and space to fail forward and succeed. The STEAMwhiz Method will help students build their confidence in themselves and their abilities through discovery, tests, creation, and analysis. STEAMwhiz kids will be able to embrace the idea that failures lead to opportunities to learn and grow. STEM/STEAM learning experiences offer amazing opportunities to develop powerful GROWTH MINDSET attributes, which are pivotal for success!
Prior Knowledge
Each lab is built upon the other. Students will be given the time necessary to develop new connections resulting in new learning. When instruction is not jumping from one new thing to the next, students can develop goals, take on challenges, learn from mistakes, practice new skills, persevere, and ultimately create a culminating “Show-What-You-Know” PBL unit (project-based learning).
Project-Based Learning
Project-based learning empowers students to seize control over their learning experiences, following their interests and passions as they address a driving question or challenge; through investigation and inquiry; student voice and choice; reflection; revision; and finally, a project to be shared and celebrated. As students work with one another to create projects to share, they become responsible for the assessment of their work. Project-based learning frees students from the anxiety of meeting the expectations of school and/or instructors while allowing them the agency to create using the meaning they’ve developed from their experiences. This is a powerful re-imagination of what is possible!
