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Rhythmic Movement Skills

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners participate in series of rhythmic movements to demonstrate skill in dance elements. In this rhythmic movements lesson, students answer sequentially developed questions which include clapping and marching to explore movement....
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Honey Bee Communication

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students participate in a role play to show how honey bees communicate with one another. In this honey bee lesson plan, students learn that honey bees communicate with dance. Students create the honey bee environment and...
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Rhythmic Movement Skills

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice using their physical skills while performing physical activities.  In this physical education lesson, students participate in musical orchestrated dances with their classmates.  Students utilize a jump rope...
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The Gathering Season

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine the traditional Washoe gathering season, and the importance of pine nuts and the goom-sa-'bye ceremony in the fall. They roast pine nuts and dance a traditional circle dance. They explore some of the Washoe vocabulary...
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Mexico's Culture

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils compare and contrast the culture of Mexico to the United States. They brainstorm what makes up a culture and develop a model of their own culture. Students explore Mexican music and dance. Additional cross curriculum activities...
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Health and Wellness

For Teachers K
Students dance around to exercise and learn about the function of their different body parts. In this exercise lesson plan, students dance around to promote health and wellness.
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Halloween Music Lesson Plans

For Teachers K - 5th
Halloween music lesson plans can provide students a motivating way to learn about writing, dance, and rhythm.
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Twist and Shout Stations

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students participate in three different physical education stations while Chubby Checker's song Twist and Shout plays. They pump up an empty bicycle tube at station 1, jump rope at station 2, and dance at station 3.
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Cultures of Our Nation

For Teachers K - 4th
Students bring in family items that represent their culture and present them to the class. In this culture lesson plan, students can bring in food, music, dance, pictures, and more.
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Latin American Culture

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners explore sites are about the culture and life of the people of Latin America and Latin Americans in the United States. There is information about Latin American music, dance, art, and heritage.
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Using Word Parts to Infer Meaning

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the importance of physical activities and use word parts to infer meaning to a story. They discuss agility, baseball, and ballet dancing, read an article, and observe a demonstration on breaking down words and...
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Presentation Culturelle

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore various aspects of French life. They determine which topic dealing with French history, art, food, music, dance, celebrations or traditions they research and present.
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Physical Education Demonstration Program

For Teachers K - 8th
Students demonstrate what they have learned in physical education class. In groups, they perform the different activities in front of teachers and parents. To end the lesson, they practice their creative movements and dance to specific...
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As Smooth as Silk

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students practice strategies dealing with reading fluency and how to read smoothly. They study the book Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae, while incorporating cross checking. This lesson plan includes a small drum, a piece of silk...
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Real World Problems

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders solve real world problems.  In this solving real world problems lesson, 8th graders decorate a school cafeteria for a dance.  Students determine the number of balloons needed to put a balloon every foot for the...
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Malambo

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use appropriate terms to reflect a working knowledge of the musical elements and use terminology from music and dance to analyze and compare structures of musical and other artistic works. They also identify the purpose of the...
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Live Performance!

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Young scholars in groups create, produce and perform as many poems as there are members of the group. They choose between recording them, reciting them orally with music or interpreting them with dance or acting. Each group attempts to...
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"Nutcracker"

For Teachers 5th
Students recognize the timbre of a celesta by listening to music that contains the celesta. They listen to music from Tchaikovsky's "Danse de la Fee-Dragee" (Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairies), track #14 and describe how the music...
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Moving to Music Self-Assessment

For Students 6th - 8th
In this Louisiana musical landscape worksheet, students evaluate that they learned about folk movement or dance by scoring themselves using on 18 performance elements.
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The Water Cycle

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students explore the water cycle. In this earth science lesson plan, they read the book Water Dance by Thomas Locker and use an interactive whiteboard to review the water cycle with an interactive website.
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Using Words to Work Things Out

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore appropriate ways to communicate feelings.  In this character development lesson, students listen to Hands are not for Hitting and several other books about expressing emotions appropriately.  Students observe...
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Birds, Bees and Butterflies

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students complete a variety of activities surrounding science, music and art.  In this nature and animals instructional activity, students sing songs, color a picture of make a butterfly, listen and dance to music, make a butterfly,...
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Mathematics: Technology and Connections

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders interpret and replicate patterns. In this patterns lesson, 6th graders are given an item with a definite pattern which they must replicate using a calculator or computer and then justify how they relate. Students...
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Pigs

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter p, and eat pigs n mud all to learn about pigs. In this pigs lesson plan, students also dance with pink ribbons and make pigs out of construction paper.

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