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Voices of Louisiana Worksheet
In this voices of Louisiana worksheet, students choose at least three quotations from the Voices of Louisiana webpage and look for clues about each person's folk groups and the genres they mention; for example, oral tradition, folk...
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Airports
Students respond to movement cues while maintaining their balance. In this movement and balance lesson, students gain understanding of general self space concepts while imagining themselves as an airplane. Students respond to high,...
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Swiss Ball Square Dance
Students use "Swiss Balls" to help them combine their movements into repeatable patterns.
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Take a Ride on the Underground Railroad
High schoolers explore the issues of American slavery, the abolitionist movements, and the pursuit of freedom that is found in art, literature, and music from that period in American history. Students determine the major personalities...
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Phytochemicals
Students identify song style and form. They create movement which shows the song form and improvise rhythm accompaniment.
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As the World Turns
Third graders read books and participate in class discussions about the motion of the stars and planets and moons in relation to the Earth. In small groups, 3rd graders act out these movements to music.
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Strange Encounters
Third graders examine a variety of Robert Harris' paintings. Using the characters in the art, they develop a conversation between them in a musical verse. In groups, they identify safety procedures to be used by those traveling in the...
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Elastic Band Shapes
Students identify basic shapes (triangle, square, rectangle, circle), create shapes with different body parts, and create shapes at various levels (high, low)
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Value: Truth, Topic: Accuracy
Sixth graders listen to music as they reflect on a time they told the truth without hurting anyone. Students listen to a story about a person who falls from a roof and breaks his leg. The person lies about how it happened. Students...
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Pumpkin Tag
Students, as trick or treaters. move around the gym performing various locomotor movements. The witch moves on a broomstick. If the witch tags a trick or treater they turn into a ghost and must stay where they are and move like a ghost.
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Shape Shifters
Students recognize different shapes and colors. When the music stops students should move to and stand on a shape. Ask students "who is standing by a square, circle," etc., and ask what color they are standing on.
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Take Heed, Scurvy Dogs!
Young scholars examine the use of ghosts in shipping stories. As a class, they assign roles and they act them out in a play. They make it seem as if they are in danger on their voyage and work together to create a script. They ask...
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Images of China
Students examine the Chinese poem "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter" by Li Po while comparing the different ways of "reading" an artwork in order to understand the differences between Chinese and American painting.
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Foot Tag
Students use a yarn or fleece ball. On the signal (whistle, music) students move around trying to hit as many different classmates feet as possible.
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Letter Dance
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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Video Game Treasure Hunt
Students creatively and safely move through general space, developing their own locomotor movements.
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Madagascar Tag
Learners play a tag game. They are divided into zoo keepers, penguins, and lions. Each group has different responsibilities such as skipping, galloping, and jumping. Students perform different locomotor skills each time they are tagged.
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Hip To Be Square
Students explore performing arts by reading a children's book in class. In this body movement activity, students read the book Dance and create their own artistic impressions based on dancing images from the book. Students share their...
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Cool Line
Students learn foot and arm patterns, then sequence those patterns into a line dance.
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The Laser Spider Web
Students create a supersized spider web using yarn. They weave the yarn over and under an existing web to create a new design.
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Exercise Tag ( a non elimination tag game)
Students scatter and sit in their own personel space. Some of them get foam balls. On the teacher's signal, they play foam ball tag.
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Lawson's Many Roles
Students examine the life of John Lawson and his many roles he took on during his life. Using their text, they discover the area in which he traveled and lived. They write an essay about his movements and identifying his contacts in...
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People power
Students explore about the British ban on slave trading and compare it to high profile campaigns today. They discuss what motivates people to behave in this way? What do students want to change, and how would they go about doing this?
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"Space" Investigations
Sixth graders understand the patterns of change observable on Earth as a result of the movement of the different bodies in the solar system. They identify the physical characteristics of the different components of the solar system.
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