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Movement

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Students experiment and explore a variety of instruments and movements. They play rhythms on instruments, spell words using their bodies, act out the movements of a song, role-play machine parts as a group, pantomime an activity, and play "Who started the motion" game.

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percussion, instruments, pantomime, movement

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movement activities, pantomime, percussion, visual and performing arts
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Grade
1st - 5th
Subjects
Visual & Performing Arts
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Instructional Strategy
Simulation
Year
2002

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