A classroom favourite is getting your students to write a song, poem or mnemonic to help them to remember a sequence. This could be the colours of the rainbow
(Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain),
or the planets of the solar system
My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets
Or the electromagnetic spectrum song…
As the above video shows, you don’t have to be a great singer to become a YouTube sensation. Get your students to record their own songs using programmes such as Audacity or Garage Band. They could share them as audio files using AudioBoo or SoundCloud.
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And learning the periodic table can be more fun:
And you can’t beat a bit of Tom Lehrer, I love this flash animation too… http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html
Go and watch the whole series of Periodic Videos on You Tube – they are brilliant.
It´s a good option to learn this kind of contents to foster the learner´s motivation, but If we develop this songs with total physical response (TPR) (with movements), above all in the earlier stages they´ll acquire it much more.
Considero que esta actividad es buena para que los alumnos aprendan contenidos conceptuales a la vez que se divierten y utilizan las nuevas tecnologías. Gracias a esta actividad los alumnos se motivan a aprender, interactúan con sus compañeros e incluso pienso que serviría de gran ayuda para que aquellos niños que son más tímidos pierdan la vergüenza. Pienso que la edad para llevar a cabo esta actividad es apropiada e incluso se podría trabajar con alumnos de menor edad prestando los maestros más ayuda.