Using all the senses to learn children can use audio, kinesthetic, and visual cues. They love using their feet, ears, fingers, feelings, smell, memory, humor, drama and, rhyme to stimulate awareness. This motor-sensory approach can grab a reticent or slow learner, and involve one that is disengaged or that is unfamiliar to expressions, idioms, content, and phrases, terms and distinctions.
Here are a few websites to look at that focus on involvement, shaking it up and allowing learners to capture the point and make it their own.
New Education Options is not the only "Jazzed Up" learning video or conceit. There will be more about singing, learning in phrases or patterns of pronunciation and meter on the Internet. Many researchers are working hard to look at brain function and learning in order to reach many populations and age groups.
This is a fun way to embrace rigorous research and make ideas memorable in class and putting discipline specific concepts on the tip of the tongue.
NEO's new video:
http://www.teachertube.com/video/jazzing-up-science-elementary-students-harmonizing-with-globe-426228
Music Edventures (work at Oberlin and in Songworks Classrooms:
http://musicedventures.com/
Easily and Jazzing up Science:
Images on Google
https://www.google.com/search?q=jazzing+up+science+classrooms&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqzOiimrjNAhUN_mMKHYH2AiIQsAQIJQ&biw=875&bih=592
jazzing up science classrooms
http://www.easel.ly/blog/10-tips-to-jazz-up-your-science-classroom/
http://www.easel.ly/
Helping a teacher in Lancaster:
https://www.donorschoose.org/project/lets-jazz-up-science/1562493/
NSTA Tips:
http://www.nsta.org/publications/freebies.aspx
Research on ESL and Jazz Chants:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281853147_Rhythm_and_pronunciation_of_American_English_Jazzing_up_EFL_teaching_through_Jazz_Chants
http://asian-efl-journal.com/6881/teaching-articles/2013/08/rhythm-and-pronunciation-of-american-english-jazzing-up-efl-teaching-through-jazz-chants/
http://asian-efl-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/mgm/downloads/77667900.pdf
Where do the arts belong?
http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2014/11/18/ctq-jolly-stem-vs-steam.html
Jazzing up Learning:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/kidz-music-education--jazzing-up-learning!-mw0002105577
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoo7NAryFBk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgyYkwwY6tI
New book expected teaching songwriting (announced at the BEA):
"Take it to the Bridge- Unlocking the Great Songs Inside of You" (out September 1st)
by Steve Dawson and Mark Caro
Using YouTube such as Hamilton or The Little Prince, why not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEPqgSNLfK8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOA7CcVOFIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQY54DRnhHs
Research lab on singing with archives:
http://airsplace.ca/
ISME to meet in Scotland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Society_for_Music_Education
Or Head to Nashville to NAMM:
https://www.namm.org/