Incorporating music into almost any class can be a great way to teach content. As educators we want to appropriately challenge each student-encouraging higher-order thinking, music is one tool to engage each student and provide a pathway for connections and deeper understand. There are ample opportunities for children to experience music in their day, including singing, moving, clapping or stomping that are not directly related to teaching content area but provide students an alternate form of expression, a chance to re-group and focus, for motivate, learn about proper group and individual expectations and behaviour, and to make transitions between subjects and activities.

Mathematics can be challenging for students to understand because the concepts are abstract, which is the main reason it’s important to provide visuals and manipulative to students when first teaching a concept. Musical notes can help teach fractions, changing instruments but playing the same song can help teach patterns, and using pitch can help with frequency and ratios

Literacy improves when a student is able to pick up on the patterns in the structure of language and is able to differentiate between pitches in words that sound similar but have different meanings. Music can be utilized as a metaphor to explain elements of a story such as character, setting, conflict and resolution using melodies, instruments, tempos, and dynamics as the teaching lesson.