Making Educational Songs with Kids: San Francisco SLANT Teacher's Workshop

I've made a lot of songs about science over the past few years, with students and for students of all ages. Maureen Sullivan of SLANT (Science Literature & Art Integration, a program of the San Francisco Unified School District) invited me to make a video sharing some of the things I've learned about making songs with kids. This is what I threw together.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• education
• music
• rhyme
• rhythm
• freestyle
• school
• teacher
• rap

[hilarioushils11]

Your ginger beard is highly attractive.

[illanonymous]

Tom, your videos are amazing, I found oxidate it or love it first, and used it in my first lesson as a teacher and the kids loved it, they kept asking to replay it! I have always considered using internet resources for learning, but after watching this it made me think, why not just do it myself. Thanks for the advice, I think I am going to do an after school program or summative class activity where we make educational songs using your guidance. Thanks again, your videos are an inspiration!

[ThisIsNotAFakeAcount]

shoutout from NZ tom, from the ouassa camp =D



[zzzzzzd]

what a fun and worthwhile thing to do lol. I particularly like the college level songs because I actually learn more from them than say an average documentary on tv. It's a pity that it is technically illegal to make money off the songs. It would be good if you made a deal with the record company and sold the songs on itunes or something. Respect!

[jrblinn]

Tom, I have enjoyed including your videos with my students, particularly "Blame it on the DNA". My 8th grade students used it as the starting point to look up words they did not know. Now I teach high school and we break apart Oxidate It or Love It. THANK YOU for your creativity and sharing these on Youtube. Watching this instructional video I may just be inspired to try this for myself.

[normthemoth]

Thank you so much for sharing these.