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- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students define/discuss pattern and the many areas where it exists, observe patterns in their own lives, engage in short activities focusing on pattern, and create/practice personal and class movement patterns; students view a ballet video and recognize Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students study how to use video clips to enrich lessons about opera and social issues. Full Review »
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- 8th - 12th
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Students conduct Internet research on the Ballet Folklorico de Mexico. They complete a worksheet answering questions about the Ballet Folklorico, and create an award and write a speech to present to the class. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students explore ballet, music and movement through Tchaikovsky's, The Nutcracker Suite. They listen to music, read about ballet, analyze how muscles work, examine artwork by Edgar Degas, and create a still life. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students brainstorm what they know about the performing arts and research an artist or song and its related genre. Students work in groups to create an online banner to attract peers to their performing arts genre. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students prepare "The Nutcracker Suite" by Tchaikovsky for performance at their Christmas concert. They research Tchaikovsky's life. Students analyze the history and culture of Russia at the time of the composer. They research the art of ballet. Full Review »
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- 10th
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Students study the history, performance, production and audience elements of selected ballets to understand their relevance to society. They physically learn basic ballet movement vocabulary to embody the dance form. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students identify word families and demonstrate a variety of ballet moves. They listen to the book "Angelina on Stage," and observe and demonstrate three ballet moves. Students then match a family word with other rhyming words, matching the correct paper cutout tutu and gluing it on the ballerina paper doll. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine and study Degas and his focus on dancers. They view the movie "Degas and the Dancer" and then utilize pastels and cray pas to demonstrate an example of Degas style and subject and create a work of art based on a dancer. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 4th
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Students discuss the Nutcracker Ballet. They listen as the teacher reads "The Tale of the Nutcracker and the History of the Ballet," (included with the lesson). Students discuss dreams they have had. They listen to a portion of The Waltz of the Flowers. Students move around the room pretending to be flowers. They create a miniature pine cone tree and decorate it. Full Review »
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