Classification Rap

The Video that Started it All! In 1989 T.H. Culhane, a brand new science teacher at Crenshaw High School in South Central L.A., joined forces with video instructor Phil Kuretski and together with their students they created T.H.'s first "Melodic-Mnemonic" -- a rap song that successfully embedded the Linnean system of classification -- Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species -- using rap and melody as the carrier wave for the textbook data that students were expected to memorize. Culhane's "Melodic-Mnemonic" method worked so well that his "at-risk" students were able to successfully compete with "gifted students" and test scores went up on biology exams. For the next near decade Culhane expanded the subject matter he and his students covered using the Melodic-Mnemonic approach. Recently, Culhane has been using the approach with the U.S. State Department's Cultural Affairs program, teaching science workshops in schools in Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Morrocco, Israel and Palestine.

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[cokeinsanity1]

thumbs up if ur science teacher showed u this in school

[Thomas H. Culhane]

That is great news! Please do videotape it and post it as a video response to this on youtube! We would be very grateful. Good luck with it, and I hope you and your class try creating your own melodic-mnemonics!

T

[avery thomas]

lol hu hu hu hu hu hu hu hu huh

[Kat Lovato]

This makes me laugh

[Nathan Morar]

Dance at 01:16?



[Tristan Manwaring]

Its great to be a mammal when you get to drink from mothers breasts.

[katieeeeeeeeheartsu]

oh god 

[chris malloy]

same here he loves this video

[iRAWkTheWorld]

I got my B1 is less than two weeks so I've been playing this at night to help em fall asleep xD

[MuziqIs666]

Science teacher shows us this all the time -.-

[Abrielle Bortkewicz]

oh my.. My childhood has come back to haunt me..

[Emma Ballantyne]

When learning this we all memorized this song and all of us were singing it in our head during the test lol