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Susan Kramer: Singing While Dancing to Learn Basic Math
Students will master basic rhythmic movements and incorporate songs and rhymes into math learning. Site provides sample music selections, songs, and accompanying movements for nine activities.
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Arts Now Learning: Moving Shapes [Pdf]
These activities will allow learners to discover the concepts of geometry through shape exploration and the creation of choreographic sequences.
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Ted: Ted Ed: Dance vs. Power Point, a Modest Proposal
Discover how dance can be used as a cross curricular way to express data.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Connecting With the Arts: Why Integrate the Arts?
A video workshop for middle school teachers that demonstrates the effect integrating the arts can have on student engagement by addressing different learning styles, promoting creativity, and giving students an alternate means to...
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Annenberg Learner: Connecting With the Arts: What Are Connecting Concepts?
A video workshop designed for middle school teachers. This program focuses on planning for arts integration by identifying common themes and concepts across disciplines and creating activities that bridge these disciplines. Includes...
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Arts Now Learning: Water Dance [Pdf]
In this lesson, 4th graders use movement and dance composition to aid their comprehension of the water cycle.
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Arts Now Learning: We Are Living Graphs and Data [Pdf]
In this lesson, 3rd graders use their own bodies to create bar graphs and do problems involving addition, subtraction, and more or less amounts. They then create their own graphs, incorporating the features of graphs that they have...
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Arts Now Learning: Geometry Groove [Pdf]
For this lesson, middle schoolers use movement and the creation of human structures to help them understand angles, plane shapes, and geometric solids.
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Arts Now Learning: States of Matter [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, students will move and generate choreography to understand different states of matter.
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Arts Now Learning: Using Dance to Explore Electricity [Pdf]
After analyzing examples of conductors and insulators, 5th graders will work in small groups to craft a dance that depicts an electrical current and how it is affected by a conductor or insulator. Students will present their dances to...
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Arts Now Learning: Using Movement and Dance to Explore Symmetry [Pdf]
In this lesson, 3rd graders first examine images and decide whether they are symmetrical or not. Next, they create individual symmetrical shapes with their bodies and identify the line of symmetry present during these shapes. They then...
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Arts Now Learning: Poetry in Motion [Pdf]
For this lesson, students learn about and create sequences and patterns as they move and dance.
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Arts Now Learning: Performing Perimeter [Pdf]
In this lesson, 3rd graders calculate the perimeter of various geometric shapes and represent the perimeter with a movement phrase. They will identify the types of angles within each shape. Other students will identify the shape that was...
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Arts Now Learning: Moving With Mathematics [Pdf]
In this lesson, students explore the concepts of fractions, percentages, and decimals by creating dances using locomotor and non-locomotor movements.
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Arts Now Learning: Moving With Fractions [Pdf]
In this lesson, 4th graders use movement phrases to model common fractions and decimal fractions with like denominators. They compare the fraction of locomotor and non-locomotor movements in a movement phrase. Students then create their...
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Arts Now Learning: Moving Sound [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, 4th graders will use movement and dance composition to aid their comprehension of sound and sound waves.
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Arts Now Learning: Dance Across the United States of America [Pdf]
These activities will allow students to become explorers and travel across the United States to encounter a variety of land forms. Students will create a story about their trek and then create choreography to match the sequence generated...
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Arts Now Learning: Dance Graphs [Pdf]
Second graders will interpret data on graphs and then use the information to explore dance composition and the form and order of created choreography.
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Arts Now Learning: Dancing Differences [Pdf]
This activity will allow students to explore comparing and contrasting through movement and choreographic sequences.
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Arts Now Learning: Dancing Through Sentence Structure [Pdf]
This activity will allow students to explore sentence structure through movement and choreographic sequences.
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Arts Now Learning: Dancing Machines [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, 4th graders explore simple machines through movement and create imaginative new machines through choreographic sequences and collaboration.
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Arts Now Learning: Dancing Cells [Pdf]
This activity will challenge students to create dances to represent the different parts of a cell.
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Arts Now Learning: Dance With Heating, Cooling, and Insulation [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, 3rd graders use movement and dance composition to aid their comprehension of heating, cooling, and insulation.
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Arts Now Learning: Character Choreography [Pdf]
In this lesson, portraits provide inspiration for students to create character descriptions. Then, basic dance techniques are used to express the traits, motivations, and feelings of the characters as students work collaboratively to...