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Concert Suite from Dances With Wolves

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students complete a unit of lessons that prepares them to perform, 'Concert Suite From Dances With Wolves,' at a public performance. They analyze the emotions depicted by music, view excerpts from the movie, and perform the music.
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Structural Comparisons

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study structural elements of a picture's composition. They scan images and compare the structural elements of the images.
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Shadow Theater of the Mahabharata

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the Hindu epic, Mahabharata, by creating Javanese shadow puppets and performing significant scenes from the story. They combine their artistic ability with their desire to learn an important aspect of the Southeast Asian...
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The Great Chicago Fire: The O'Leary Hearing

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars dramatized the O'Leary hearing regarding the Chicago fire using the transcript from the original hearings as a script.
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Street People

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research homelessness including how people end up living on the streets and other related issues such as government response and charity. Using their research, students engage in improvisation, role-plays and monologues on the...
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Dance Observation Sheet

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students assess their classmate dance sequences.
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Hostages

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students create interpretive drawings and movements based upon the emotion in the poem.
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STRIPS 'N CURVES

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students make color selections and make sure they are aware of correct strata construction for this innovative combination of straight lines and gentle curves creates zingy but easy-to-make quilts.
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LET'S SHARE #2

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students build group interaction and trust to encourage students to speak in front of the class. Students initiate dialogue useing questions.
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Set Design: Public Space on Stage

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create a set that captures the essence or feeling of a public space.
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Welcome to the NFL (Dance)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students perform a dance that includes jumping jacks, jogging, and kicking.
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Ideational Stimuli With Color

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students make a creation using colored construction paper. They produce and express a correlation between their particular creation and different qualities of movement by transferring their feelings and/or emotions into a movement...
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Geo Jammin' - Day 5, Lesson 19: Hey, Hey, Whaddaya Say!

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners rehearse scripts by recording themselves on audiotape and then playing it back to self-assess strengths and weaknesses.
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The Jiggy Dance

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers practice and perform a dance to Smith's song, Gettin Jiggy Wit It.
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Rock It

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers practice and perform a dance to the song, Baby Likes to Rock It.
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Eruption Simulation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct research and teach each other about the eruption of Mount St. Helens and identify the major components of the eruption, their characteristics and their effects. They simulate the eruption dramatically.
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Dancing With Props

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars use move a prop by moving their bodies. They are encouraged to focus on balance, a variety of body movements, and making the prop central to their movements.
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Dramatic Feelings (any)

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils examine a feeling word and represent it in a dramatic presentation. Through this, students present and observe the different situations that different feelings can exist in.
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Dramatic Feelings

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners examine a feeling word and represent it in a dramatic presentation. Through this, students present and observe the different situations that different feelings can exist in.
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Rock It

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils dance in lines to "Baby Likes to Rock It" by The Tractors. They begin to learn dance formation: Lines or scattered facing same direction, and learn counts while rocking out to country music.