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...

Students demonstrate the proper steps in sequence to the Native American Friendship Dance.

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...

Fourth graders are given a worksheet stating the goal of the day, different sections to visit, and time spent on each section. They are given the CDs, 4th graders are told to insert the CDs into the computer. Students go to The Plains...

Students learn direction, skipping in rhythm, right side-left side recognition, and cooperation.

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.

Combine the study of art, music, and history with an activity that asks kids to craft rattles out of slabs of clay.

What happens in the muscles during anaerobic and aerobic exercise, and how does this affect the heart and our overall health? A cross-curricular lesson that introduces learners to the lifelong benefits of exercise, including the...

Toward the end of the school year when the weather warms up, take your high schoolers swimming! They perform various cardiovascular activities in the pool, beginning with a warm-up activity and followed by stretching, precardio,...

Students receive instruction in a variety of dance skills. Upon completion of the dance unit, they write a Pen Pal letter to describe their personal experience during the dance unit. They do their own research to explore 2 dances of...

Students identify three different levels of movement and sensation of buoyancy, respond spontaneously in movement to the stimuli of imagery and feelings, and formulate his or her own unique sequence of movements based on personal...

Here's lesson 15 of 20 in this soccer unit. This lesson has the players practice shooting on goal from different distances. The focus is on accuracy. After a bit of shooting practice, they gather with their team and play some practice...

Identify at least five benefits of physical activity and guide students to experience fun feeling healthy. Your class will participate in the Synchronized Chair Dance. Worksheet and Evaluation are included.

Students demonstrate the concepts of time through movement, beat, and rhythm.

Students learn and practice the Single Lindy dance steps with a variety of partners in a sociable and fun atmosphere. They dance with other partners and feel a real sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.

Students practice locomotor and axial movements. In this body awareness lesson, students discover freeze movement, axial movements, and locomotor movements. Students practice the movements as they maintain personal space.

Learners participate in a series of activities to explore the lives of slaves in 19th century America. They examine the design of slave ships, the hardships endured, and the ways that owners depended on slaves for their economic survival.

Students express themselves creatively, apply their knowledge of dance steps and rhythmic elements to the creative process, and ultimately to create their own dances.

At the end of this instructional activity, students will perform a brief dance movement and will demonstrate the use of the three postures correctly, safely, and creatively. Students observe group dances and are asked to recall...

Students perform a brief dance movement and demonstrate the use of the three postures correctly, safely, and creatively.

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...

Students create and memorize movement phrases within a specified structure and develop duets from the solo phrases.

Learners participate in series of rhythmic movements to demonstrate skill in dance elements. In this rhythmic movements lesson, students answer sequentially developed questions which include clapping and marching to explore movement....

Second graders experience artistic perception of rhythm in music and see how to move their bodies and tap their sticks to the rhythm of a particular song.