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Fun Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students perform a dance step in physical education class. They move to the beat of the music, counting eight beats to a set of movements. Students walk forward four counts and do two jumping jacks. They walk backwards four counts and do...
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Madagascar Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students review the rules of Madagascar Tag and choose three students to be zoo keepers and the rest of the students are Penguins. They perform different locomotor skill each time they are tagged until all have been tagged and the game...
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Bean Bag - Throw And Catch

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars carry a bean bag with a teacher specified body part while traveling in and out of designated spaces. They practice tossing and catching the bag while moving and progress to playing catch with a partner.
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African American Poetry: Songs of Protest and Pride

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to various time periods in history in which African Americans wrote songs and poetry to cope. In groups, they travel between different stations to listen or read poems and music from the Civil War period, Civil...
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Toss/Catch

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students toss bean bags. In this toss and catch lesson plan, students practice tossing bean bags into a basket and catching them from a partner.  
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Clucking Chickens

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
A comb, wattle, and beak are three characteristics that describe a chicken. Your class can explore the life of a chicken through reading, art, movement, and music. Using a plastic cup and string, they'll create a pretend chicken that...
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Parts of a Friendly letter

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars sing about the parts of a friendly letter. In this friendly letter lesson, students sing a song to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell" about the five parts of a friendly letter.
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Musical Hoops

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use locomotor skills to move to a hoop, where they solve a math problem, and use a locomotor skill to return to the beginning spot.
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Quick Beat

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Young scholars move in a variety of ways such as speed walk, jump, skip, gallop, crab walk, crawl (on mats or grass), slide, walk backwards, etc. Write terms on a large poster. Writing should be large enough for students in a group to...
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Music

For Teachers K
Students develop listening skills through repetitive singing. They develop an appreciation of melody.
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Music: Solo and Group vVcal Practice

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders individually sing and record "Child of the Universe" and play their performances back to the class for evaluation. Next, in groups, they sing "Deck the Hall," and sing the countermelody for evaluation. Then students...
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Describing Music

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders listen to the 9th symphony and identify the tiri-ti rhythm. They identify the number of times they hear a phrase "turn, turn, turn". They then describe the meaning of one song and answer questions in class discussion.
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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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The Chicken Dance

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify and perform the five main dance movements of the "Chicken Dance" to accordion music.
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Moving and Grooving with Tempo

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in activities involving folk music using movement to illustrate the musical concept of tempo. The use of a game is used in order to help maintain student involvement in the lesson.
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Four-Corner Cartoon Traveling

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners practice moving safely in a general space and travel using a variety of locomotor movements in this variation of the game Four Corners.
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Hula Hoop Hoopla!

For Teachers K - 5th
Students develop spatial awareness through "movement" using hula hoops as the personal parameter.
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A Voice for the Times

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars make connections with events of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's with songs made popular by Aretha Franklin.
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Locomotor Locomotion

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice and reinforce seven different types of locomotor movements in a game-type situation.
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Scrabble Endurance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice movement skills while working on their spelling. They review spelling words and practice the locomotor and non-locomotor skills involved.
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Follow the Leader Throw and Catch

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students perform various throwing and catching activities to music with a partner, with one partner as the leader, and the other copying the movements.
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Hoe Down: An Integrated Unit on Social, Folk & Square Dancing

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders experience the movements required to perform social, folk and square dancing. They describe each dance movement. Students discuss the elements found in folk art, folk music, and fold dance.
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Rhythmic Ribbons

For Teachers K
Students practice various locomotor skills and to provide students with the opportunity to experiment with movement to music.
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Vitamin A

For Teachers K - 6th
Students explore non-locomotor movements and instrument improvisation creating accompaniments to the song "Vitamin A" in this elementary-level General Music lesson plan. The lesson plan nutrition messages links and student challenges for...

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