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Musical Freeze Improvisions

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Students are introduced to the process of creating story from movement through improvisation and invention. When the music is playing, they move. When the music stops, the students freeze. A discussion on the role that music plays in the process of exercise and its emotional content is developed after the experience.

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movement

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emotional content, freeze, improvision, movement, visual and performing arts
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Grade
4th - 8th
Subjects
Physical Education
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Instructional Strategy
Simulation

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