This version of the Melodic-Mnemonics Water Song has arabic subtitles created by Solar CITIES associate Omar Nagi in Egypt and is presented at the Ministry of Water Resources and Ethics to director Dr. Magdy Hefni.
Author: tculhane; Tags: Water Recycling Living Machines Water Purification
on the Motion Picture Marine Boat into the Ocean to video tape marine mammals and expose the inner city students to the marine environment for the first time. Unfortunately we don't have any of that early footage. Now TH brings his melodic-mnemonics songs around the world (Palestine and Israel are featured here) and teaches students the lessons by having them illustrate the lyrics with web images that they select. The first step is to create what is essentially a powerpoint ...
Author: tculhane; Tags: Aquatic Ape Hypothesis Elaine Morgan Descent of Woman Descent of Man Evolution Natural Selection Melodic-Mnemonics T.H. Culhane Solarl CITIES marine mammals dolphins whales sea lions dugong manatee little mermaid atlantis creation
This is one of TH Culhane's melodic-mnemonics about physics (the chapter on sound and light and waveforms) with the refrain "Sound and Light are waves". It explains the difference between sound and light set to a screaming rock and roll background. It follows the simplest of melodic-mnemonics methods -- the students get the song and are then asked to illustrate it using images from the web in a powerpoint presentation. If they use the appropriate images it is assumed they are learning; ...
Author: tculhane; Tags: high school physics sound and light particles and waves photons sonar amplitude frequency
song) and some students from Jefferson High School in south Central LA when we went into the Beverly Hills Community Access TV studio to record this fun look at a chapter in the biology textbook on the Digestive System. It was another of Melodic-Mnemonics' attempts to bring the textbook to life using blue screen technology. Adam Button was co-singer in "The Quintessentials", an LA based accapella singing group made up of TH Culhane, Adam Button, Paul Sagawa, Jason Matthews, Paul Leher and ...
Author: tculhane; Tags: Peristalsis Digestive System Accapella Quintessentials Harvard Squares Krokodiloes
Paul Sagawa of Harvard Krokodiloes fame stars as Gregor Mendel in this "melodic-mnemonics science education through music video" from the early 1990s in which we tried to literally "bring the textbook to life". Sagawa also plays the saxophone throughout the track. Dr. Sherry Kerr cameos as Charles Darwin's pious wife -- Darwin was played by a substitute teacher at Jefferson High -- while biology teachers Todd Ullah and colleague play Watson and Crick. TH Culhane plays Alfred Russel ...
Author: tculhane; Tags: Gregor Genetics Sociobiology Watson Crick Mendel Alfred Russel Wallace E.O. Wilson Evolutionary Biology Education Reform
. Shot at Beverly Hills Television, this was a pioneering attempt to bring kids from the poor areas of LA together on a project with wealthy kids from Beverly Hills, and it occurred during a time of economic depression in LA that preceeded the LA riots. Because of our Melodic-Mnemonics program we were able to bring the communities together during the time of the worst violence and intolerance that followed.
Author: tculhane; Tags: Heterotroph Hypothesis Autotrophs Elvis Parsley Beverly Hills Crenshaw High School
In the very early 1990's former CIA agent turned television producer Frank Snepp "investigated" the work of TH Culhane in the inner city schools of Los Angeles and flattered him with this wonderful profile on his "melodic-mnemonics" method of using music and video production to teach "at-risk" youth. Later Frank went on to write a screenplay about TH that almost got picked up by Paramount Studios; Frank also recorded a soliloquoy about his experiences in VietNam, called "It's Tribal", for ...
Author: tculhane; Tags: Jefferson High School T.H. Culhane Frank Snepp Melodic-Mnemonics Science Education
Culhane and his inner-city students challenged both the doom and gloom that had infected the environmental movement and the public education system which separated the sciences and the arts. Circa 1992 this is a gem of the DEMMO productions "Melodic-Mnemonics Science Education through Music and Video" collection produced "of the teachers and students, by the teachers and students, for the teachers and students." DEMMO stood for "Digital Education for Multi-Media Occupations", and was a ...
Author: tculhane; Tags: Biosphere Mult-media education Melodic Mnemonics Art and Science Biospherics
This was our first melodic-mnemonics song composed completely in Arabic ("Maey Oh Maey - The Water Song" had an arabic refrain and some arabic words). "Nahmy El-Nil" was composed with teachers and students at the Wadi Environmental Science Center, videotaped by the Egyptian kids, edited by Morrocan/Belgian engineer Rachid Esseqat and performed by the kids at the UNESCO conference in Sharm El Sheikh and at the World Water Conference in Mexico. ... water conservation The Nile Environmental ...
Author: tculhane; Tags: water conservation The Nile Environmental Education
This is the Talkin' Trash Music Video, music and lyrics by TH Culhane, shot and edited by James and Elisa Conklin in Manshiyet Nasser, Cairo, Egypt with the Zabaleen. This version has subtitles to aid in understanding the lyrics. ... "Solar CITIES" Zabaleen "Talking Trash" "Waste Recycling" Melodic-Mnemonics Cairo Egypt
Author: tculhane; Tags: Solar CITIES Zabaleen Talking Trash Waste Recycling Melodic-Mnemonics Cairo Egypt
