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\nCreating a Landscape Through Art, Music, Dance, and Poetry\n

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\nA brightly-colored David Hockney landscape painting inspires poetry, dance, music, and paper sculpture in this multi-faceted activity. After brainstorming words inspired by the painting, the whole class collaborates on a cinquain poem,...\n
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\nMove It Line Dance\n

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\nThe upbeat song \"I Like to Move It\" from the movie Madagascar is just the ticket! Get your younsters up and moving. The basic steps in this dance are the grapevine, side step, squat, back step, jumps, jumping jacks, and marching in...\n
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\nFlip and Flop: An Adaptation Through Dancing Echoes with Shapes and Locomotor Movement\n

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\nDancers practice echoing through dance. They listen to a story \"Flip and Flop\" and then are put into pairs. One partner is Flip, while the other is Flop. Flip creates a shape by dancing, and Flop, the other student, echoes that shape by...\n
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\n\"Jarabe\n\n
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\nJarabe Tapatio (Mexican Hat Dance)\n

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\nOh, what a fun dance to learn! In this version of the Jarabe Tapatio (Mexican Hat Dance) which comes from Missouri State University, there are a lot of steps to learn along with finger snapping and hand clapping. While this is not...\n
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\nStuck Like Glue 4 - Wall Line Dance\n

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\nHeel, toe, heel, toe, grapevine, stomp. Put some basic dance steps together and get moving. Teach this 32-count series to your class and when they've got the steps down add some music. \"Stuck Like Glue\" by Sugarland has a great beat and...\n
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\nDancing the Colors of Birds\n

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\nStudents explore colors through storytelling and dance. In this visual arts lesson, students view the painting \"Bird and Cornstalk Rug\" and identify three colors. Students express how the colors make them feel through the rhythm of...\n
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\nScattered Square Dance\n

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\nTake 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...\n
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\nThe Ritual Fire Dance\n

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\nThis worksheet about \"The Ritual Fire Dance\" by Manuel de Falla, provides information on the musician, his music, and the dance. It includes 9 questions about the reading in addition to 5 questions about the instruments important in the...\n
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\nDancing in 3's\n

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\nThis dance makes me want to just get up and start moving right now. This dance is done to the song \"Footloose\" by Kenny Loggins. The lesson includes not only step-by-dance step instructions but also a video. There is a lot of movement in...\n
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\nFitness Dance\n

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\nGet those youngsters moving! The activities put together to music are every day warm-up exercises. Jogging in place, jumping jacks, arm circles, and toe touches are a few of the movements presented to get children moving. Teach them the...\n
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\nSwiss Ball Square Dance\n

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\nCombine 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...\n
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\nJump if you feel like it\n

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\nStudents incorporate historical references into the modern circle dances.\n
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\nKinesthetic Astronomy: Mars Opposition Dance\n

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\nYour class will watch as one child orbits the sun as Earth, while another orbits as Mars. If the timing is right, they will see the repetitive dance between the two planets and discover how often they are opposite from each other. For...\n
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\nWildwood Dancing: Concept/Vocabulary Analysis\n

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\nConsidering including Juliet Marillier's young adult novel, Wildwood Dancing as part of your language arts curriculum? Check out an overview that examines some of the themes and issues presented by the novel. \n
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\nYoga Ball Bash\n

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\nThis line dance instructional activity involves the use of PE equipment. If you have yoga balls and rhythm sticks then take a look at this instructional activity. Of course there are other things that could be used instead of yoga balls....\n
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\nAngles, Triangles, Quadrilaterals, Circles and Related\n

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\nStudents classify angles. In this angles lesson, students explore the characteristics of angles, triangles, quadrilaterals and circles. They identify polygons and sing a classifying angles song. Students participate in a manipulative...\n
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\nTeaching Locomotor Skills and Directions With a Circle Line Dance\n

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\nTeach this circle line dance to focus on locomotor skills and directions. Which way is clockwise and which way is counter clockwise? The steps in this dance are very basic: grapevine, sliding, hopping, jumping. Put these steps together...\n
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\nWalking on Sunshine Fitness Dance\n

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\nKnee bends, jumping jacks, arm stretches, arm circles, and just jumping around are some of the moves used in this dance workout. Get those youngsters up and moving to the beat of \"Walking on Sunshine\" by Katrina and the Waves. It's all...\n
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\nClerihew Dances II\n

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\nThird graders explore rhythm and quality of word and phrased to that of dance. They move to the rhythm of poetry.\n
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\nPatterns in Dance and Math\n

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\nStudents analyze how repeated body movements and shapes can represent and extend patterns. In this pattern analysis lesson, students discuss patterns in dance, math, and everyday living. Students demonstrate a dance using a sequence of...\n
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\nDay 4: Folk Dance\n

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\nDay four of this dance instructional activity teaches the steps to a Mexican folk dance. It uses chunking and dance to aid them in memorizing the steps. Note: This instructional activity appears incomplete.\n
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\nSurfin' USA Lummi Stick Routine\n

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\n\"Let's go surfin' now, everybody's learning how, come on and safari with me.\" One of the Beach Boys more famous songs that is bound to get your class up and moving. This dance has basic dance steps and the added dimension of using Lummi...\n
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\nGreat Balls of Fire - I Got Locomotor Skills\n

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\nTeach and review elementary locomotor skills. Use \"Great Balls of Fire\" by Jerry Lee Lewis to get youngsters up and grooving to the beat! The dance steps are described in rich detail and you will have the class jumping, skipping,...\n
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\nSOS Rescue\n

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\nHere's a 32-count, get-up-and-move line dance done to \"A Girl Like Me\" by Rihanna. Move left, move right, step kick, clap, pivot and turn. These are some of the moves in this line dance. Make adjustment according to what you learners can...\n
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