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A Sailor's Life at Sea

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners research some duties of sailors onboard HMS victory. They then perform some of these duties in a class dance, which includes changes of speed, level, and direction of movement. They perform their dance to an audience.
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Meet Antonin Dvorak

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that is related to the history of Antonin Dvorak. They conduct research using a variety of resources. Students listen and identify some of the basic elements of music. The lesson includes background...
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Charlie, the Caterpillar - An Integration of Lit. and Music (Elementary, Literature)

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars sing, dance and play instruments that are integrated with the book, "Charlie the Caterpillar."
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"Open Mic" - Giving Creative Expression To The Connection Between The Japanese American Internment, September 11, And Our Rights Today

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the similarities of the Japanese-American experience in WWII and Arab-American experience in post-September 11 US policy. They create presentations on their reflections and express themselves through poetry, dance,...
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"Evening Bells"

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders sing "Evening Bells" while the repeat sign and double bar in the music notation. They listen and dance to a Viennese waltz. They locate the Danube River.
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Our Daily Five

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the food pyramid through a class discussion, hands-on experience with food items, and a floor game that helps them to identify the food group involved. Lesson extensions include the use of play money, art, and dance.
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Artistic Influence - Lesson 3

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discuss how musicians' messages can influence society. They think of examples of artistic expression in music, the visual arts, dance, and theater that can lead to a society's self-examination.
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Fertilization and Pregnancy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use a KWL chart and describe their knowledge of fertilization, pregnancy and birth. They watch a video of fertilization and development and create a poem, song or dance about what they have learned.
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Visual Arts, Literary Arts, and Performing Arts: Their Connection and Place in America's Minority Culture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the rich, varied, and full artistic culture of each of these three minority groups, Native Americans, Chicanos, and African Americans. They explore art through dance, music, literature, and many other different mediums....
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Melodic Rhythms of India

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students listen to and dance to the music of India. After listening to the music again, they identify the different types of instruments playing the melody. They explain the tabla tarang and view photographs of people performing the music.
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Prom Date

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use the internet to research the cost of going to the school prom. As a class, they brainstorm about the things needed in order to go to the dance and use advertisements to make a budget. After all of the data is...
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Adam's Apples

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars examine the /a/ phoneme in both written and spoken words. They practice finding the /a/ in words, watch how their mouths move when making the sound, and write the letter. Next, they differentiate the sound in words, listen...
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Science: Day and Night

For Teachers K - 4th
Students listen to the Sky Tellers Native American story, "Ant Dances for Light," and illustrate it. They observe how Earth's rotation results in periods of darkness and light. Students investigate how day length varies throughout the...
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1920's Word Search

For Students 9th - 10th
In this word search activity, students identify twenty four words related to the 1920's. Examples include Henry Ford, dancing, lifestyle changes, and Hoover.
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The Magic Of Static Science Station Experiment

For Students 4th - 5th
In this magic of static electricity set of station activities worksheets, students perform 4 activities with static electricity including popping corn, jumping peanuts, weird water, and dancing balloons. They complete the recording...
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Help the Bear Find His Music Maze

For Students 2nd
In this help the bear maze worksheet, 2nd graders begin the maze at a cartoon picture of a dancing bear. They follow through the maze to a picture of a radio surrounded by musical notes.
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Ballet

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify word families and demonstrate a variety of ballet moves. They listen to the book "Angelina on Stage," and observe and demonstrate three ballet moves. Students then match a family word with other rhyming words,...
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The Little Dancers-- Printing Practice

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this printing practice worksheet, students learn to copy the sentences of a poem in their best printing. Students read the poem about ballet and look at the picture. Students copy the poem with proper spacing on the primary lines.
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Winter Waltz

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students pretend their room is an imaginary frozen pond. In this performing arts lesson, students create the illusion that they are skating on the pond by using wax paper on their feet. Finally, students get in the winter mood by...
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Moving to a Path Map

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students accurately demonstrate non-locomotor/axial movements such as bend, twist, stretch, swing. They accurately demonstrate eight basic locomotor movements.
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EXPRESSING AN IDEA

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explain how elements (body, space, time, and force) can be contrasted to express anger and happiness in movement. They give examples for each of the elements: body actions, speed and force of movement. They display their...
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Movement

For Teachers 1st - 5th
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...
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Locomotion, Time And Shapes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice the concepts of time and rhythm using drum beats. They also create body shapes using verbal cues. The shapes made include stretched, curled, angular, or twisted. The rhythm of beats is increased or decreased to explore...
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Look in the Mythic Mirror: I've Got Rhythm!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners explore the relationships between music, poetry, and visual art. Using the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, pupils develop an awareness of the compositional elements of the Classical style, and the aesthetic effects of those...

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