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Activities Using Music From Saint-Saens & Moussorgsky
Student create a fish and listen to music while imagining their fish are swimming.  In this music lesson plan, students identify instruments played and move their fish to the movement.  Students work with kangaroos and...
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Rhythmic Expression
Students discover movement and expression to music/sound through a series of teacher-led exercises and role plays.  This lesson is ideal for the middle school drama class with possibilities for adaptation to any level of drama or general...
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Primary PE lesson
Learners participate in dances to a music CD to practice making a conga line formation. They then use locomotor movement shown on an animal picture card, moving to the music.
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It's a Wrap!
Students investigate symbols and colors on the Osage blanket. For this visual arts lesson, students examine a blanket from the Osage culture and identify symbols on the blanket. Students create a class blanket, including symbols which...
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The Pony Song
Students sing "Three Little Pigs", the "Pony Song", and "The Animal Blues" in this elementary school music lesson.  National and State Standards are addressed.  Assessment rubric is included for grading and student evaluation.
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Dancing Hands, Abstract Drawings
Students discover African musical rhythms by performing Ancestral Spirit Dances.  In this musical lesson, students research Willis "Bing" Davis and the abstract work he created.  Students listen to Yoruba drum music and...
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Hey Good Looking, What You Got Cooking?
First graders perform a song and skit to illustrate how music can be used to communicate movement As part of the Thanksgiving Day program, 1st graders perform a song and skit that illustrates how music can be used to communicate movement.
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Beat the Clock
Students discuss the importance of working together. After forming groups, they perform the movement based on their teacher's instructions. When asked to stop, they must sit down and form their groups immediately. If not, the game is over.
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Service Learning/Then and Now
Eighth graders explore service learning projects. They work, in groups, to choose a video project. Students collect information and present it in a storyboard. Next, they use music, video clips, and still pictures to create their video...
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Monster Fun Learning the Five Senses
Students explore the five senses. In this health lesson, students read the book Brave Little Monster and identify the five senses from the book. Students draw an illustration from the book as a follow-up activity.
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In My Dream
Pupils listen to various selections of music and discuss the use of form in musical compositions. They choreograph and perform movements to correspond with identified forms.
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Create-A-Line Dance
Students demonstrate knowledge of the processes, principles, and structure of line dance. In groups students choreograph their own line dance, implementing moves learned from previous dances taught in the line dance unit.
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What Lives in Water?
Students learn about a variety of sea creatures. They look at sea creatures pictures and identify the creatures by name and by their unique characteristics. Phonemic Awareness skills are reinforced using the beginning sounds of the...
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Shapes and Review of Locomotor Skills
Students engage in a series of loco-motor activities based on shapes. In this loco-motor lesson, students demonstrate physical skills through races, jumping, hopping, galloping in circles, squares, rectangles and triangles.
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Pop Art-Reflections of the Mass Media
Learners select a common object or a face, and draw or paint it on a flat surface making it larger than real life. They  choose a common object or simple scene and repeat it horizontally or vertically as defined rows. They create a flat,...
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Jive Foil Puppets
Pupils engage in a lesson that is about the creation and use of Jive Foil Puppets. They conduct research using a variety of resources to gather information for differences in use by different cultures. Students create their own puppets.
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Homeschool, Kindergarten and Preschool Alphabet Lesson Plan for Letter H
Young scholars participate in activities related to letter H. In this letter H lesson, students practice handwriting, and letter recognition through a letter search puzzle. Young scholars participate in activities related to letter H...
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Superhumans and Bionics: Building Hi-Tech Exoskeletons
Students explore how the body works.  Students experiment and participate in activities to compare speed to stride length.  Using the data collected, students draw conclusions about the biology of dinosaurs, their speed and stride length.
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Feet of Song
Students establish a basic definition of stop frame animation and the processes involved in creating a film.  Through guided practice and film reviews, they create their own stop motion animation in response to a film they have seen.
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Starting Off
Students practice starting and stopping safely at a signal given by the teacher as they practice different locomotor movements.
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TIGERS AT TWILIGHT
In this crossword worksheet about tigers, students are given 10 clues.  They must find a word which matches each clue and insert it correctly into the crossword puzzle.
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Island Sinker
Students perform various locomotor skills while practicing cooperative teamwork. In this locomotor skill lesson, students move from "island" to "island" using the designated motor skill. Imaginative components such as escaping a "shark"...
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Monarch Migration
Third graders investigate the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly.  They experiment with various tools to simulate the mouth parts of insects, conduct research, record their observations of butterflies hatching, write a play, complete...
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Animals in the Barn
Second graders discover the rules to a game that introduces the names and sounds of animals. They move while farm music is playing; when the music stops, they are to get into the nearest hula hoop and make the sound of the stuffed animal...