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Water Tank Mural

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students evaluate visual arts by creating a mural on campus. In this symbolism instructional activity, students research famous artists on the Internet and examine the impact their work has had on society. Students create murals around...
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Is it Folk Dance?

For Students 8th - 9th
In this folk dance worksheet, students determine the characteristics of folk dancing and the dances that would fit that definition. They learn the actual dance concepts behind folk dancing.
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A Balloon Dance

For Teachers All
Dance offers several components and the two that are involved in this activity are creative expression and artistic perception. In this dance activity children are given movements with which to build and formulate and help them make wise...
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Planting a Garden Through Dance

For Teachers K - 4th
Students create a dance study based on the growth cycle of a flower. They improvise movements that relate to each stage of growth. They create artwork on the growth cycle of a flower. They perform their dances for the whole class.
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Chance (Probability) Operations in Dance Composition -

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate modern-dance choreographer Merce Cunningham's historically significant contribution to dance-making history. Specifically, 8th graders explore and practice Merce Cunningham's choreographic use of chance...
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Create-A-Line Dance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars demonstrate knowledge of the processes, principles, and structure of line dance. In groups students choreograph their own line dance, implementing moves learned from previous dances taught in the line dance unit.
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Macarena Referee Dance

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students learn officiating hand signals through dance; to give students interested in sports a connection to dance
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Wipeout (Dancing Legs) Tag

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students choose to dance or do a stationary swimming movement within this lesson. They play a game of noodles and taggers. The teacher explains the rules to the game and then the game begins.
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Rhythmic Movement Skills

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice using their physical skills while performing physical activities.  In this physical education lesson, students participate in musical orchestrated dances with their classmates.  Students utilize a jump rope...
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Native American Friendship Dance

For Teachers All
The performing arts offer artistic perception, creative expression, historical and cultural context and aesthetic valuing. This dance helps students understand dance history and develops cultural awareness. Students are given the...
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Calendar Dance

For Teachers K
Students name the days of the week and months of the year by engaging in an interpretive dance or other movement with their bodies.
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Native American Friendship Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students demonstrate the proper steps in sequence to the Native American Friendship Dance.
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Music: Dancing a Jig

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students Watch a video to observe Celtic dancers prior to playing a game called, "Irish Jig Tag." When students are tagged with a Shamrock wand, they mimic an Irish jig. The game can be adapted to celebrate other nationalities or...
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Music and Movement

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students demonstrate how to instruct a Pre-K class in singing and creative movement. Once they are grouped according to several nursery rhymes, they practice singing the songs and coordinating appropriate movements with the rhythm. The...
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Japanese Abstract Art And The Impressionist Movement

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study several examples of Japanese abstract art and how this style impacted the Impressionist movement of the 19th century. This instructional activity includes ideas for student-created sketchbooks.
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Halloween Songs

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students perform a dance (La Raspa) from a different culture while maintaining a steady beat, sing "Halloween Night" with accurate pitch and good breath support, and imitate a body percussion part for the song "Monster Mash" in this...
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Dance

For Teachers K
Students participate in different types of dances in which they explore time, action and other elements of dancing. They dance with a group or a partner and explore how to work together.
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Rhythmic Dancing

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice expressing themselves through the art of dance.  In this physical education lesson, 4th graders discuss choreography and how moving specific ways at certain times can be artistic.  Students create and...
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Integtrating Chinese Dance

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate the concept of Chinese dance and how it developed. They practice some of the dances and conduct research the contributions of major choreographers. Students describe the history and cultural significance of each dance.
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"Braiding and Weaving" Dance Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore braiding and weaving through dance. They create their own braiding and weaving dance.
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Arts and the Olympics/Dance and Athletics

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students study and perform dances with a dance specialist, while others photograph their movements. The resulting slides were used to help both these students and others explain dance and write creatively.
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Mapas Bailados: Creating Visual Representations of Dances Using Maps

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders listen to "Frank the Monster..." and discuss the dance map on the inside cover of the book. They create their own dance map using sentence strips to record the types of movement.
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Swiss Ball Square Dance

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use "Swiss Balls" to help them combine their movements into repeatable patterns.
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Multiplication Movement

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders experience multiplication facts through movement and music. They view the Multiplication Rock video, choreograph a movement or dance to teach the multiplication facts of threes, and perform their dance.

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