Electric guitars offer many options for including STEM education in your school. If you have a guitar building program, enlisting other teachers to use a guitar in their lesson plans helps gain popularity and notoriety for your program. If you do not have a guitar building program yet, getting other teachers to use a guitar could help you in establishing a program. All of our lesson plans are stand-alone activities that can be taught by any teacher using a guitar. Below is a listing of many of our lesson plans arranged by grade level and subject matter.
Middle School Level | Math | Geometry of Fret Spacing |
Guitar Body Geometry | ||
The Mathematics of Musical Scales | ||
Art | Guitar Body Geometry | |
High School Level | Math | Spreadsheet for Fret Spacing |
The Mathematics of Musical Scales | ||
Physics | Scale Length, Frequency, & String Tension | |
The Physics of Music Waves | ||
Tooth Tunes | ||
Art | Guitar Body Geometry | |
Technology | Material Properties of Wood | |
Guitar Electronics | ||
A Prelude to Pick-ups; the Solenoid | ||
Tolerances in Engineering Drawings | ||
Threaded Fasteners | ||
Music | Set Up | |
Intonation | ||
Community College Level | Engineering | Fret Spacing – AutoCAD |
Implementation tip: Consider approaching these other teachers and discussing these plans with them. You may find unexpected support and build student interest in guitars. All of these lessons are aligned to standards and have been reviewed, used, fully vetted by licensed educators.