HEARTWARMING: How One Arizona Group Uses Music To Teach STEM

Education, specifically primary education is one of the most important things a human can go through. It allows for budding young adults to grow and mature, and learn more about the world they inhabit.

Unfortunately, we've seen a sharp dip in critical thinking among younger students in the past decade. In order to combat that, one Arizona organization has built a unique program to help push these students to their full potential.

What is Mind Over Music?

Founded by The Phoenix Symphony, Mind Over Music is a program intended to use the power of music to teach young students STEM, critical thinking skills, and innovative thinking.

The program partners with local educators to ensure lessons fit the curriculum, and to make them engaging for each student, allowing them to interact with the material more critically.

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What Do the Lessons Entail?

Each lesson brought to schools helps teach a different skill, each by using the musicians and music of the renowned Phoenix Symphony. How can you use music to teach Math, Science, and History? Incredibly easy!

For example, part of the fifth grade curriculum is to use musicians and their instruments to calculate volume and area, and then design a stage plot that can fit in the entire symphony. Even more musically engrained is the fraction lessons, using music notes (quarter note, eight note, sixteenth note, etc.) to learn how fractions work.

With all these lessons and more, the Phoenix Symphony has helped further the education of students across Arizona, K-12 in a way no one else is.

[Phoenix Symphony][AZ Central]