Students appreciate the fun and enjoyment from dancing with a variety of dances such as "Raise the Roof,""Bankhead Bounce," "Grapevine," and Hydrolics."

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.

Students participate in a daily school-wide fitness program which takes place every morning following morning announcements. They complete a warm-up, a cardiovascular workout, a strength and endurance workout and finally, a cool down.

First graders discover that patterns exist in sounds, movement, and objects. In this patterns lesson, 1st graders select two items from a group  and produce an alternating pattern.

Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of rhyming and recognize them in different pieces of literature that includes songs, speech, and poetry. They also listen to music to make an auditory connection to the concept.

Students explore cyclic patterns in drumming style. In this multicultural music lesson, students listen to and compare Taiko and Samba drumming styles and complete a compare/contrast worksheet.

In this Christina Aguilera worksheet, students read about the life of the performer, then complete a variety of comprehension activities. An answer key is included.

Students explore space awareness and safe movement. For this movement/physical education lesson, students listen to the book Horton Hatches a Who. Students pretend to be Horton and rotate from hula hoop to hula hoop performing various...

Learners discuss how sound has been used throughout history and cultures, including present day in their own lives, through the study of Taiko Drums in this introductory lesson. Resource ideas are provided.

Learners review the general form of the solution to the Dirichlet problem on the rectangle 0 ≤ x ≤ a, 0 ≤ y ≤ b with homogeneous boundary conditions except for u(a, y) = f(y). Then they use the symmetry to find the general form of the...

Students create an ocean haiku. In this haiku instructional activity, students use their five senses to write a haiku. Students watch videos about the ocean, make a sensory portrait, and create a class haiku.

Seventh graders explore spatial awareness and then choreograph a dance.

Students practice moving at slow and fast speeds. They are given a red, yellow and green ball, each representing its corresponding traffic light. When tagged, that student must then move at the speed associated with the color ball that...

Music and dance appreciation are important to the education of children to help them appreciate the cultures that make up our society. Rhythm sticks teach kids artistic perception of rhythm in music and how to move their bodies and tap...

Eighth graders create their own cane flute. They use a model flute to gain the correct measurements and use the scientific method to construct the flute to have sound quality and pitch accuracy.

Students explore music, patterns, notes, and instrumentation. They practice the proper technique at a keyboard and perform a simple three note pattern.

Students perform jumps and leaps from one lily pad to another to add to a study of frogs.

Young scholars jog around the cones while the music plays. When the music stops they all stop at the various numbered cones. One student rolls the first die to determine which exercise they perform. A second student rolls the second die...

In this environment worksheet, students read an excerpt about Antarctica, including the many challenges explorers face. Then they imagine that they are a sound recordist in Antarctica and record 3 CDs. Students look at the images given...

Learners demonstrate rhythmic accuracy and the ability to repeat a group of motions in a sequence.

Fourth graders discuss life in a coral reef, and view photographs and a computer program about coral reefs. They design and create colorful watercolor, ink, and crayon drawings of coral reefs.

Students demonstrate the ability to use basic walking steps in several body directions while demonstrating rhythmic accuracy with their steps. Students discover that dancing makes their heart go faster and is good exercise.

Students listen to poems and rhymes, clap out syllables, and sing along with familiar tunes. They use puppets and crafts to help recall and retell favorite poems, and craft their own poems.