+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fun Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils perform activities to practice locomotor skills. They walk for a specified number of steps and then do jumping jacks. Students grapevine, swim, and perform the crawl stroke.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pathways to the Future

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students draw a pathway and create a movement phrase along that same path using specific movement vocabulary. The phrases are performed in class and rubrics are used for assessment. Meets State standards for the arts.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Watermelon Crawl

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars review "slap leather." They practice each of the individual steps they will need to perform the Watermelon Crawl. Students perform the Watermelon Crawl on their own and perform a peer or self assessment of the performance.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Friendship Dance

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore dancing to a Friendship or Round dance songs. They perform basic dancing steps such as the stomp and hit. Students demonstrate rhythm, hand motion and proper foot placement. They listen to the music and perform a dance...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Owl Dance

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students are introduced to a social dance from Canada's Aboriginal peoples. Students warm up listening to the music and listening for the beat before trying the 'Stomp' step without a partner. After some practice, students choose...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mapas Bailados: Creating Visual Representations of Dances Using Maps

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders listen to "Frank the Monster..." and discuss the dance map on the inside cover of the book. They create their own dance map using sentence strips to record the types of movement.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dance

For Teachers K
Students participate in different types of dances in which they explore time, action and other elements of dancing. They dance with a group or a partner and explore how to work together.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Frogz

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students perform jumps and leaps from one lily pad to another to add to a study of frogs.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rock'n Robin

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners wall line dance given specific steps given to them by the teacher.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

I Can Dance to the Music of Everything

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students examine Keith Haring's art work. They apply visual imagery to rhyming, rhythmic words with Haring's "Dance" book. They make impressions on styrofoam plates to explore printmaking process.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduction to Keith Haring

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students experience a dance club-like environment one would find in Haring's 1980's. They dress in 80's clothes and learn break dancing moves. They relate the experience to Haring's artwork and explain his influences.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Balloon Dance

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students identify three different levels of movement and sensation of buoyancy, respond spontaneously in movement to the stimuli of imagery and feelings, and formulate his or her own unique sequence of movements based on personal...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Body Awareness and Self-Esteem"

For Teachers K
Students realize that they are unique individuals who have strong bodies which they can manipulate to move through space.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Braiding and Weaving" Dance Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore braiding and weaving through dance. They create their own braiding and weaving dance.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Water Dance

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students act like the changes in the four seasons by moving like water in each season.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shall We Dance?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students learn simple dances to different types of music, and change their movements as the music changes.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduction to Song and Dance

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to music and learn different dances. After reading the story, "The Music for Max", students can draw their favorite instruments from the book.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Jiggy Dance

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice and perform a dance to Smith's song, Gettin Jiggy Wit It.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rock It

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars practice and perform a dance to the song, Baby Likes to Rock It.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Follow The Leader - Soca Style

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a fun and creative experience in dance. This is a great activity for warm-ups, the end of class, all-school assemblies and family nights!
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rock It

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners dance in lines to "Baby Likes to Rock It" by The Tractors. They begin to learn dance formation: Lines or scattered facing same direction, and learn counts while rocking out to country music.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Single Lindy Mixer

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students learn and practice the Single Lindy dance steps with a variety of partners in a sociable and fun atmosphere. They dance with other partners and feel a real sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Add-on Line Dancing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice sequencing and coordinating various movements to music.When they have chosen the music for the day, have them find a self space and clap and move to the beat in their space for the duration of the song.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Arts and the Olympics/Dance and Athletics

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students study and perform dances with a dance specialist, while others photograph their movements. The resulting slides were used to help both these students and others explain dance and write creatively.