• Do you want to bring a pop song into your classroom–but are not sure how to use the song as a teaching tool? Click on a song title below for lesson plan ideas.
• Not sure which songs your students might like? Get a quick snapshot of their musical preferences and experiences with the One-Question Interview.
• Interested in seeing how the ideas below work in a real-life classroom? Please see my Teaching Blog.

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Another Day of Sun
As Long As You Love Me
Be Alright
Both Sides Now
Breakaway
Can’t Stop the Feeling
The Castle on the Hill
A Change Is Gonna Come
Crazy
Don’t Shut Me Down
Don’t Stop Believin‘
Driver’s License
Fast Car
Fight Song
Hello
Here Comes the Sun
I Don’t Care
I Will Remember You
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
Lean on Me
Lost Boy
Love Yourself
Make You Feel My Love
Memories
One Call Away
Renegades
Ring of Fire
See You Again
7 Years
She’s Leaving Home
Something Just Like This
The Sound of Sunshine
Stressed Out 
Sunny
Tom’s Diner
True Colors
Underdog
Vienna
When We Were Young
Wichita Lineman
Wonderful World
You Gotta Be
You’re Beautiful

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