History Teacher's Music Video Youtube Page
This right here is one of my all time favourite
resources. It is the youtube channel of a
history teacher in Hawaii, who takes popular songs and changes the lyrics to
teach about history. She has 57
videos!! In my non-musical opinion, her
voice is decent, and the idea is novel.
Some of them are entirely of her and other people in costumes singing in
different locations, and some have clips from historical fiction movies and tv
shows. You have to watch a few to get an
idea of what they’re like. Some are
fabulous and some are a little too long and slow. Some of the tunes are pretty catchy, so the
kids get them stuck in their heads, and some have some great visuals. One time I was teaching a class and heard the
class next door singing the Henry the VIII song, and I could also often hear
that one at lunch time. Beware: YOU will
also get that one stuck in your head. It
is also a great resource to show as an inspiration to students in preparation
for an assignment where they make their own videos. It is far more fun to write and sing a song
than to write a paragraph, so the students are more engaged. Most of the videos focus on high school
content, but some of them apply to elementary, so everyone should check it
out!!
Could you post the link Katerina? It's really hard to type in manually. I want to see it! :D
ReplyDeleteHover over where it says History Teacher's Music Video Youtube Page at the top, and that is the link.
Deletehttp://www.youtube.com/user/historyteachers/videos This is fantastic! I love using songs to remember/learn facts. I remember our grade 12 biology teacher showing us a Weird Al song about the pancreas, and I still remember facts from that song.
ReplyDeleteOh, Michael, I'm not sure it's a good thing when a "Weird Al" song sticks in your head. But great when the facts do! Thanks, Katrina, for sharing this unusual resource. Once they've been introduced to this and thought about some criteria for quality, I can see this being another option for small group presentations after the information gathering stage for an inquiry. And just for fun, I have to tell you that I drove my aunt crazy when I was 8 years old by playing her 45 rpm record of "I'm Henry the VIII I am" over and over and over! It is probably still stuck in her head and I still know all the words.
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