Swiss Ball Square Dance

Young musicians experience song, dance, and play of the Jamaican culture. Scholars listen for and recreate beats, they play tunes, make up original dances, and play a game that challenges pupils to pass stones to a specific beat.

Combine square dancing and a Swiss ball. There are quite a few square dance moves and how to do them while sitting on, or carrying a Swiss ball. Teach these square dance moves to the class. Then have them work together in small groups to...

Take your class on a field trip to Fractalland where they'll learn all about number and shape patterns. Based on Disney's movie Alice in Wonderland, this resource takes young mathematicians on an adventure as they explore patterns in...

Introduce young learners to line dancing. Here are some simple movement patterns to teach them. First teach, repeat, and repeat again without music. Then when they have a pretty good grasp of the movement patterns, add music and practice...

Fifth graders build increasingly larger squares and triangles using pattern blocks. They record the growth patterns on a chart and look for corresponding numerical patterns. Students describe the patterns they find and use them to...

Learners graph growing patterns using ordered pairs on a coordinate grid. They read The Fly on the Ceiling, a Math Myth.

This QuickTime movie provides an opportunity to identify number patterns in square numbers. Then the data is organized in a table and graphed. As you watch and listen to the teacher and student interact it helps clarify the thinking...

Take a good, square look at this introductory square dancing lesson. Each square dance move has what is termed a "call." Teach some beginning calls to your young dancers. They can be scattered around so that their focus is on learning...

This QuickTime movie provides an opportunity to identify patterns in square numbers and list them in a table. As you watch and listen to the teacher and student interact it helps clarify the thinking behind applying this concept.

This QuickTime movie provides an opportunity to identify square numbers with a literature connection to "Sea Squares" by Joy N. Hulme. Then the data is organized in a table and graphed. As you watch and listen to the teacher and student...