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A Groovy Rainforest: Using Sibelius’s Groovy Jungle to Integrate Music with Science

Author: Amy M. Burns
About Author: Music Educator, Far Hills Country Day School, NJ
Level: Elementary
National Standard:

4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.
6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.

TI:ME Technology Strategy:

4. Technology-Assisted Learning

In this lesson, elementary students will utilize the facts that they learned about the rainforest from their science classes, to create a song in Sibelius’s Groovy Jungle. I have performed this lesson with students in grade three.