From watersheds to willows, there are many words that are never in a classroom or seldom informing a child's reading session. New Education Options and instructor/ESL teacher, Bo Lebo are attempting to remediate.  Using a combination of Earth Sciences introduced through musical and IT means, she is paralleling new research that hopes to drive meaning through multiple learning styles, real science, career explorations, and familiarizing concepts that lead to making school fun, interesting, cool AND memorable.

By telling stories, keeping diaries, learning to listen, collaborate, observe, invent, and edit, children are reading, working with relaxed awareness and other elements of a brain targeted environment that builds white matter, brain wrinkles, and automaticity in dual language learners and Title 1 childcare or age specific classrooms.

You can see for yourself by watching or sharing "Jazzing up Classrooms" with STEM through STEAM online.  (links below)

New Education Options works with K-4 grades as a blended instruction, musically informed Science program. 

The mission to: bridge gaps in relevancy and rigor with citizen science by hands on student problem solvin to make words and learning scaffolding familiar. 

The kids are building soft and hard skill sets while connecting their technology and place based learning with melodies, measurements, measures.  Vocationally and academically driven vocabulary resources are woven into daily play as blended instruction student activities. Children's admiration for new tools is embraced by smart NOAA and NASA publications.  Neo embraces GLOBE/UCAR's webtools that provide research based activities and customer service support to teachers.  The program can deliver connectivity kids locally with other young GLOBE science classrooms worldwide or down the street.

Whether weather, wonder,  the outdoors or playground "WaterBuddy" Neo's work with GLOBE and its inter-classroom explorations, brings GLOBE Elementary books alive through songwriting, harmony, composition, and experimentation.  Find out more about New Education Options in the San Fernando Valley or at a distance by watching and sharing our films on youtube or on teachers tube.  You can send the QR code to another teacher or to your principal and music teacher. 

You can call us to set up a residency to serve your at-risk readers or various grade groups at 818-742-5099.  You can explore more about arts integration and teachers in your area by working with your local arts organization, talking to the NEA or Americans for the Arts, or find out more about STEM by looking at the GLOBE books (in 6 UN languages).

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G.L.O.B.E. is a international initiative between children who are learning how to understand science through hands on learning, enhanced English and Math activities and blended instruction.  Our students explored "What's up with the Atmosphere?- Exploring the Colors of the Sky" book in 4th Grade and  entered their first citizen science observations to SAGE III satellite and GLOBE elementary host sites.

Tags : Aerosols, Citizen Science, Kids in the Park, Gardens, Drought, Hydrology Cycle, ELA, ELD, Math, Phenology, Rivers, Science Fairs, IT, Music, Remediation, Equity, Environmental Justice, Percussion, Singing, Fine Arts, Arts in Education, Science Integration, Geology, Weather Science, Conservation, Stewardship, Academic Improvement, 21st Century Skills, Common Core, NGSS

- See more at: http://www.teachertube.com/video/jazzing-up-science-elementary-students-harmonizing-with-globe-426228#sthash.9lRMojQX.dpuf

GLOBE Aerosols book spawns "Skywatcher.tv" and new interests in recorder, ukulele, and reading student journals and song map outlines or treble/bass staff or science journal notes (Instructor: Bo Lebo, School site: Gault Street Elementary School 4^th graders)…

http://www.teachertube.com/video/jazzing-up-science-elementary-students-harmonizing-with-globe-426228

http://science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/skycolor/

Born of Kenneth Grahame's great animal fable and the LA River's significance to our city, NEO is continuing to innovate its "musical linguisticsTM" applications and work with CDE approved and federal content with phonemic awareness, brain development, new teaching paradigms, and now science collaboration and virtual classroom data submission by ipads or iphones as citizen science data collection:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_in_the_Willows

www.GLOBE.gov

www.waterbuddy.org

www.kidsfirst.la

Elementary GLOBE:

http://www.globe.gov/web/elementary-globe

Making Wildfire impact relevant:

http://science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/skycolor/

Bridging to EEI a note, observation, interaction and collaboration at a time:

https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/langandlit/article/view/23436/17342

No longer a subject area that is taboo:

https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Science-Demystified-Linda-Williams/dp/0071434992

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Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDr5AiNVcKE

Grassroots research and action:

http://www.nafme.org/take-action/grassroots-action-center/

Write about your program:

http://www.nafme.org/my-classroom/journals-magazines/teaching-music-magazine-guidelines-for-contributors/

Scanning for new learning options:

https://www.yahoo.com/music/stings-brain-scanned-analyzed-study-141521947.html

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/sting-musical-brain/

Find a window of integrating STEM into your daily music lesson or more:

http://nationalconference.nafme.org/