Singing Cell Songs To "Make the Medicine Go Down"

For teachers looking for creative ways to engage their students in learning cell parts and functions, this article provides some clever ideas. Just like Julie Andrews sang her song to help ... See More

For teachers looking for creative ways to engage their students in learning cell parts and functions, this article provides some clever ideas. Just like Julie Andrews sang her song to help children take their medicine, this article shows how familiar song tunes can be used to help reinforce vocabulary and important concepts. “Sweet Betsy from Pike” and “London Bridges Falling Down” are used to help students remember cell parts and the steps of mitosis (the latter includes hand motions). My personal favorite was the DNA song sung to “Oh Christmas Tree”. Review games and DNA models are included in the article. For teachers looking for excellent ideas to engage their students in ways that make learning about cell concepts fun, this article is a gold mine!

Corny But Effective

The author uses songs, arts and crafts, drama, and body motions to better implement student learning in life science. She provides a song, shows hand signals for mitosis, and art for cell s... See More

The author uses songs, arts and crafts, drama, and body motions to better implement student learning in life science. She provides a song, shows hand signals for mitosis, and art for cell structure. While some might find this approach corny, I have used it myself and find that students do remember these approaches when trying to recall information that seems foreign to their minds.