School and Teacher Programs
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum provides dynamic, interdisciplinary experiences that support curriculum standards in core subject areas. Programs for every grade level are designed to meet virtual and in-person classroom needs. For more chances to connect, please email us at schools@countrymusichalloffame.org.
All School Programs
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Songwriting 101: An Introduction to Words & Music -
Words & Music: Teach Language Arts through Lyric Writing -
Words & Music for Early Learners -
Guided Highlights Tour -
Artifact Adventure -
Is It a Fiddle or a Violin? -
String City: Nashville's Tradition of Music and Puppetry -
Riders in the Sky -
Bill of Rights: The Remix! -
STEAM: Listening Technology Over Time -
STEAM: Science of Sound at Historic RCA Studio B -
Traveling Trunks -
Hatch Show Print Tour -
Alpha-Blox: Design with Typeface -
Dazzling Designs -
Student Performances
Professional Development
FREE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT for teachers connects the Museum to language arts, social studies, music, science, and visual arts curriculums. Workshops help educators prepare students for Museum visits and programs, and offer creative approaches in teaching core subjects. Email schools@countrymusichalloffame.org with questions.
REGISTER TODAY
TENNESSEE TEACHERS are admitted free to the museum when planning for a field trip. Schedule your visit today by emailing schools@countrymusichalloffame.org
On-Site
Looking for a creative and effective method to strengthen reading and vocabulary skills? Words & Music is a fun and proven classroom unit that teaches language arts through lyric writing. The on-site Words & Music Professional Development workshop reviews the Words & Music Teacher’s Guide and the Teacher Student Resource Portal. Teachers learn effective Social and Emotional Learning teaching tools and practices that can be used in the classroom when teaching lyric writing. In the on-site workshop, teachers participate in a Guided Highlights Tour in the Museum galleries. A professional songwriter joins the training to share firsthand knowledge and tips about the creative process and assist with crafting lyrics. The day ends with a performance of songs created during the workshop – offering a taste of the experience students have when you teach this engaging and educational unit.
On-Site Dates:
September 14 | 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM CT
Connections: English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies, Social-Emotional Learning
Grade Levels: 3-12
Webinar
The Words & Music Professional Development webinar reviews the Words & Music Teacher’s Guide and Social and Emotional Learning teaching practices in an interactive online workshop. Participants will work through several of the student activities and begin the songwriting process by free writing and brainstorming. By the end of the webinar, you will be ready to teach this award-winning curriculum to your students!
Dates:
September 14 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
October 17 | 4:00-5:00 PM CT
November 15 | 4:00-5:00 PM CT
Connections: English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies, Social-Emotional Learning
Grade Levels: 3-12
On-Site
The American History on-site Professional Development is an intensive one-day, on-site workshop will explore content connections through:
- Close examination of the museum’s permanent exhibition, Sing Me Back Home: A Journey Through Country Music
- Exposure to primary sources in the museum’s exhibitions and media-rich digital archives
- Object-based learning techniques to engage students with historic artifacts such as a harmonica played by the first African-American on the Grand Ole Opry, cowboy western movie posters from the Great Depression, and Dolly Parton’s handwritten song lyrics
Using the museum as a laboratory, with access to museum content experts, teachers will acquire new and engaging teaching tools to help students think critically about industrial America, the Great Depression, the counterculture of the 1960s, 9/11 and more.
Date(s): September 21 | 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Curriculum Connections: Social Studies, English Language Arts, SEL
Grade Levels: 4-12
Webinar
The country music story presents numerous connections to social studies curriculum, allowing teachers to reach students using an interactive and dynamic approach. The American History Professional Development webinar previews the virtual Guided Highlights Tour, a new online option for teachers that utilizes our one-of-a-kind collection to tell an American history story. The Teacher and Student Resource portal, which features lesson plans, multimedia supports, and primary sources, is also explored. Both the tour and the portal are grounded in educational standards, rich with cross-curricular opportunities to help you share the nation’s narrative from the colonies to the contemporary era.
Dates: Not available at this time.
Curriculum Connections: Social Studies, English Language Arts, SEL
Grade Levels: 4-12
On-Site
During the on-site STEAM Professional Development, teachers will travel to multiple locations that show off STEAM in action. At Historic RCA Studio B, hear how engineers used the science of sound to shape the tracking room, a favorite recording space for Elvis Presley and eventually earning the nickname “Home of 1,000 Hits.” At Hatch Show Print, see how printmakers have cultivated conservation through the creation of posters, tapping into the art of math to produce distinct, descriptive designs. In the Museum galleries, analyze artifacts of listening technology that have impacted how music is made, recorded, consumed, and shared. Themes of the tours culminate in an on-site classroom experience, where teachers model collaborative components of STEAM curriculum by working together through lessons they can take back to their schools.
Dates: September 20 | 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Curriculum Connections: English Language Arts, Social Studies, STEAM, Social and Emotional Learning
Grade Levels: 2-12
Webinar
From the museum galleries to Historic RCA Studio B to Hatch Show Print, STEAM is all around us at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Experience how the subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics intersect in our three distinct settings. The STEAM Professional Development webinar provides insights from each location, previewing pre-made lesson plans, curriculum supports, and distance learning program opportunities that can be used in physical and virtual classrooms.
Dates:Not available at this time.
Curriculum Connections: English Language Arts, Social Studies, STEAM, SEL
Grade Levels: 2-12