Fourth graders explore ballet. For this dance and music humanities lesson, 4th graders practice ballet positions and play a card game using French ballet vocabulary. Students count beats in rhythm patterns and listen to classical music...

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,...

West Side Story and Romeo & Juliet—two classics in their own rights that help young literature lovers better analyze different works. Learners research and compare the characters and story elements of West Side Story and Romeo...

In this vocabulary activity worksheet, young scholars consolidate key vocabulary from a unit of study as they classify terms by unscrambling words and identifying 6 films based on the categories listed.

Reading the original Hans Christian Andersen tale of “The Little Mermaid” and viewing the Great Performances: The Little Mermaid from the San Francisco Ballet video offers class members an opportunity to consider how artistic decisions...

Students learn the meaning of prepositions through movement. In this dance lesson, students choreograph a piece showing that they understand the meaning of various prepositions. 

Students examine Nureyev's artistic endeavors and achievements. In this language and art activity, students analyze  modes of dance expression at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries. They focus on Martha Graham and...

Students create movements that illustrate opposites.  In this opposites lesson, students discuss what opposites do for writing and relate to dance.  Students make movements based on their opposites.

Fifth graders write or dance a simile to show the relationship between two unlike nouns. In this simile and grammar instructional activity, 5th graders explore dance movements and identify smooth and sharp energy examples....

Fourth graders write a poem. In this jazz music lesson, 4th graders learn about the basics of jazz dance and practice basic movements. Students learn common terminology and listen to several recordings of jazz music. Students create a...

Young scholars orally tell different types of stories using the assistance of props. For more advanced students, stories may be told according to a specific genre, or the story may have to include a given condition, setting, situation or...

Students explore how to tell a story through dance. In this dance lesson, students watch Swan Lake and choose a story of their own to show through dance.

In this gerunds and gerund phrases instructional activity, students practice their grammar skills as they identify the gerunds or gerund phrases in 10 sentences. Students read 8 more sentences and identify each gerund or gerund phrase as...

In this gerunds worksheet, students underline the gerunds or gerund phrases in each sentence. Students complete this for 18 sentences.

Learners create a pantomime, work cooperatively to conduct and share research, identify and discuss how movement is used to depict the ethereal Odette and the sinister Odile, and creatively pay tribute to the lovers, Odette and Siegfried.