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Using a Guitar to Teach STEM

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

Sample Drawing

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.

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    • Details for Parents
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    • Institute
    • Lesson Plans
    • Teaching Syllabus
    • Guitar Grading Rubric
    • Using a Guitar to Teach STEM
    • Consent Forms
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    • Lesson Plans
    • Current Guitar Models Design Files
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