An engineering design process project for students to create a regular rhythm of beats by spacing weights along a string and then dropping the string.

Believe it or not, even babies can feel the beat of a rhythm. However, science has documented the first case of a person who could not dance to the beat. His name is Mathieu, and he is an intelligent, talented - even musical - guy with...

Explore the human body's need for a normal cycle of dark and light and apply this to an understanding of biological clocks in other animals. Test the effect of light on the development of mealworm larvae into adults.

This lesson deals primarily with the number of rhythmic combinations that can be found in a four beat measure of music. Students will learn through trial and error and derive a mathematical formula to calculate the number of possible...

An overview of the value of notes. Includes many examples of rhythms and tempos.

This entry from Encyclopedia Brittanica's Guide to Black History features Berry Gordy, Jr., an American businessman, founder of the Motown Record Corporation (1959), which became the most successful black-owned music company in the...

This introduction to the life and writing of Langston Hughes profiles the poet who emerged with the Harlem Renaissance to earn "a place amongst the greatest poets America has ever produced."