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  Session: High School
  Paper Type: Contributed
  Title: New Harmonies: Activities and Insights for Learning Physics and Music
  Meeting: 2015 Summer Meeting: College Park, Maryland
  Location: N/A
  Date:
  Time: 1:50PM
  Author: Daniel N. Bergman, University of Manitoba
2049522252, daniel.n.bergman@gmail.com
  Co-Author(s): Richard P. Hechter
  Abstract: Music is something that resonates with people, regardless of culture, ethnicity, and skin colour. From listening to the radio, or playing a band, to fancying different genres from classical to blues, pop, or hip hop - there seems to be something for everybody. Embracing music is something that physics teachers can demonstrate for students as an authentic context for learning the science of sound found within high school physics curricula. This presentation describes an activity we developed as an introduction to a sound unit in a high school physics class. The lesson aims to engage a wide range of students through the universal power of music through a hands-on and minds-on experience towards multi-disciplined studies in music and physics. Further, we will describe how an activity like this can reduce tensions of a musically inexperienced physics teacher in terms of incorporating musical elements into a lesson. Thank you to the University of Manitoba and the Faculty of Education for conferring me the Undergraduate Research Award and enabling me to work on this project, as well as Dr. Richard Hechter for working with me on the research.
  Footnotes: *Thank you to the University of Manitoba and the Faculty of Education for conferring me the Undergraduate Research Award and enabling me to work on this project, as well as Dr. Richard Hechter for working with me on the research.
  Presentation: AAPT Conference 2015.ppt

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