Young scholars engage in a series of loco-motor activities based on shapes. For this loco-motor lesson, students demonstrate physical skills through races, jumping, hopping, galloping in circles, squares, rectangles and triangles.

Students participate in different types of dances in which they explore time, action and other elements of dancing. They dance with a group or a partner and explore how to work together.

Students demonstrate proper space awareness by moving safely away from others in the playing area.

Students practice the concept of moving in clockwise and counterclockwise directions to tell time using addition and subtraction.

Students listen to a performance of the instrument, oud. After watching a video, they discover how many parts of the world it is used in and locate the countries on a map. They compare and contrast the oud with other instruments from the...

Learners identify basic shapes (triangle, square, rectangle, circle), create shapes with different body parts, and create shapes at various levels (high, low)

Fourth graders explore braiding and weaving through dance. They create their own braiding and weaving dance.

Students realize that they are unique individuals who have strong bodies which they can manipulate to move through space.

Students participate in warm-up activities before physical education class. They read the activities from card that are set up in the four corners of the room.

Students explore Japanese folk tales and create a performance that tells one of the Japanese folk stories.

Students examine the use of ghosts in shipping stories. As a class, they assign roles and they act them out in a play. They make it seem as if they are in danger on their voyage and work together to create a script. They ask questions...

Students participate in a special game of tag while reinforcing the math skills they have learned.

Students examine the Chinese poem "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter" by Li Po while comparing the different ways of "reading" an artwork in order to understand the differences between Chinese and American painting.

High schoolers view a video clip highlighting the work of choreographer Trisha Brown and read her biography. They complete a table to summarize her work and they discuss their answers.

Students receive instruction in a variety of dance skills. Upon completion of the dance unit, they write a Pen Pal letter to describe their personal experience during the dance unit. They do their own research to explore 2 dances of...

Students research symbols from Texas history and make selections for quarter designs. In addition, they include written explanations to accompany their drawings. Coin designs cultural background and visually represent patriotism and...

Students scatter and sit in their own personel space. Some of them get foam balls. On the teacher's signal, they play foam ball tag.

Students explore ways to communicate and solve conflict. At the beginning of class, students must communicate emotions without using words. They brainstorm important relationships in their lives. Next, groups of students create a...

Students explore about the British ban on slave trading and compare it to high profile campaigns today. They discuss what motivates people to behave in this way? What do students want to change, and how would they go about doing this?

Students complete an activity to improve their spatial awareness and loco-motor skills. In this spatial and loco-motor skills lesson, students pass a beanbag down the line of students.

Students learn foot and arm patterns, then sequence those patterns into a line dance.

Learners actively participate in a fitness-enhancing activity.

Second graders study four American songs that they will sing during the month of February. They discuss the origins and meanings of the songs.

Young scholars create a supersized spider web using yarn. They weave the yarn over and under an existing web to create a new design.