1.0School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences/iasBecca Price publishes "Songwriting to learn" - School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciencesrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="nWUBMxV2KE"><a href="/ias/news/2018/07/05/songwriting-to-learn">Becca Price publishes “Songwriting to learn”</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="/ias/news/2018/07/05/songwriting-to-learn/embed#?secret=nWUBMxV2KE" width="600" height="338" title="“Becca Price publishes “Songwriting to learn”” — School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences" data-secret="nWUBMxV2KE" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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IAS faculty member Becca Price, along with Sarah Ward (UW College of Education), Katie Davis (UW iSchool), and Greg Crowther (UW Bothell School of STEM and Everett Community College), recently published, "Songwriting to learn: how high school science fair participants use music to communicate personally relevant scientific concepts," a paper that describes the qualities of music that high school students wrote about scientific ideas. The students were all participating in the local BioExpo science fair. Their songs employed ...