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Lesson Plans for 2nd grade Japan Unit

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the music and dance of Japan in this five lessons unit. Aspects of Janpanese and American culture are compared. The food, holidays, clothing, and the school day of the two countries are discussed.
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Scrambled Eggs and Dead Bugs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice movement by pretending be scrambled eggs, and dead bugs. They dance, skip, gallop, walk etc . . . when music plays, and stop when it does not.
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Plodding Along: The Dan Wagoner Experiment

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students research Dan Wagoner and apply his choreographic ideas in "Plod" to dance study. In this art lesson, students discuss Dan Wagoner. Students select four shapes from "Plod" and connect in a dance.
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Humanities in Colonial and Revolutionary America

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students demonstrate dances of colonial America. In this colonial American lesson, students learn forms of colonial social dancing including the Juba and Virginia Reel. Students examine the history of the 2 dances as well.
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GET'N JIGGY WITH THE JITTERBUG

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders research the history of the jitterbug dance through an interactive group project. The goal of the lesson is to get them to execute the dance steps independently with little outside help from the teacher. The steps are...
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Moving Rhythms

For Teachers K - 4th
Pupils explore the elements of tempo, beat and rhythm. They create rhythm patterns and an original dance. In groups, students perform their phrases for their peers. As a class, they explore choreographic principles, processes and...
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Moving to Music Self-Discovery

For Students 6th - 8th
For this moving to music worksheet, middle schoolers brainstorm about the types of movement they do when listening to music with a group of people. Then students select one of those movements and answer 14 short answer questions.
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Raise the Roof

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students appreciate the fun and enjoyment from dancing with a variety of dances such as "Raise the Roof,""Bankhead Bounce," "Grapevine," and Hydrolics."
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Choreographic Variations on "Plod"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the choreography of Dan Wagoner. For this art lesson, students create their own choreography based on the work of Dan Wagoner's dance "Plod."
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Beyond the Notes

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students observe as the teacher introduced themself as a talent scout for a clothing company for teenagers who is looking for a choreographer for a commercial for a new line of clothes called, "The Wrap". They work alone or in groups of...
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Groovin' with the cows

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create dance moves to a song. In this dance lesson, 3rd graders listen to the cow song and create dance moves that match the words they hear. They work in small groups and perform their dance and song. 
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Performance and Video Notetaking Worksheet

For Students 7th - 9th
In this musical movement worksheet, students explore folk music movement by answering short answer questions that accompany a video or performance.
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Accelerando - Israel, Peru, Russia

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils complete activities to learn about the music concept of accelerando. For this accelerando lesson, students sing songs and learn tempo. Pupils use the Yiddish circle dance 'Bim Bam' to complete a circle dance. Students also learn...
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Mirror Image

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create and act out mirror images of their partners and the movements they make. They focus on spatial awareness skills associated with this activity, including exercising in large and small movements. Students observe...
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Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students participate in a partner dance. In this dance instructional activity, students listen to the song "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride" and repeat dance steps according to the music.
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Dancin' to the Times

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders work in groups in order to research a specific music era or dance style to share with the class. They have studied different music styles that are included in the lesson and now they have the choice to research one. There...
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Dem Dry Bones Take Form

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discover human anatomy by dancing with a song in class.  In this human body instructional activity, students listen to the song "Dem Dry Bones"  and identify the different parts of a paper human skeleton....
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Moving to Music Self-Assessment

For Students 6th - 8th
In this Louisiana musical landscape worksheet, students evaluate that they learned about folk movement or dance by scoring themselves using on 18 performance elements.
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Lesson Plan for Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (1938)

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars study the life and music of composer, Samuel Barber. In groups, representing trees, water, and stars they use interpretive dance to tell the story of the musical composition, 'Adagio for Strings, Op. 11' by Barber.
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Hustlin' Bustlin' ABCs

For Teachers K
Students use songs and dances to help them with their ABCs. They shuffle when a letter is called and shout it out.
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The Cotillion or One Good Bull is Half the Herd, a Black Arts Movement novel by John O. Killens

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study late twentieth-century African American satirical literature as well as its cultural antecedents. they analyze and discuss, within the contexts of race and gender, the social criticism of the middle classes presented by...
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Barn Dance

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils will read historical realistic fiction, examine and recount the cultural similarities and diffferences between life and times of those characters in the story and their own life. Listen to music and learn a dance to accompany the...
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Round Dance

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders will participate in a dance activity for physical fitness. The learn a social dance that has an origin with the Canadian Aboriginal People. The use of tribal music will make the lesson more culturally relevant.
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Letter Dance

For Teachers K
Students identify the shape of the letter their name begins with, then use their arms to trace the shape of the letters with their hands. They do this to the movement of music.

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