1. HOW IMPORTANT MUSIC IN TEACHING SCIENCE?
“Music is everywhere.”
Music plays an important role in teaching science simply because children
nowadays really love music. Even though you did not teach them how to appreciate
music they really do.
According to Dalcroze method, music is the fundamental language of human
brain and therefore deeply connected to who we are. When children heard music
they usually got interested, alive and happy at the same time love and enjoyment is
there. We could not deny the fact that music is the part of life and should not be
left out by the human experiences. If we apply music in teaching Science I assure
you that children and even adult would be interested, they will have these
eagerness and excitement to learn science because there is integration of music.
Based on my experienced, I usually introduced songs to my preschoolers before I
started my lesson presentation and I observed that they can easily connect to the
lesson and aside from that the more they used to sing the song repeatedly the
faster they memorize the song so with the science terms being used.
Furthermore, according to the research music is unique in its ability to
affect more than a single brain hemisphere, incorporating both the right and left

2. sides of the brains affecting a child’s overall cognitive development and possibly
increasing a child’s overall intellectual capacity thus, music boosted pupil’s general
knowledge and the way of knowing. As what Rufus Turner says “Truth is a soul of
science,” Hence, Music is a truth, what we really feel deep in our heart; we can
freely express it through music.
Indeed, Science is an intensely human, intensely creative, dominates our lives
and presents society tremendous opportunities and challenges. Therefore, music is
a science which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and
harmony with the exact control of time.