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Physical Education and Music Program

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Teach everyone how to work together in both physical education and music activities. Parents and their children are shown a presentation that highlights the philosophy of cooperation. They apply these concepts to their physical education...
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Mirror Exercise

For Teachers K - 6th
Kids get up and act! To promote inventiveness, timing, and clowning, they pair up and act as though they are looking in a mirror. Child A does a move while child B attempts to mimic it as closely as possible. This is a fun activity that...
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Leadership: Communicating With Your Peers

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore communication by using non-verbal cues. In this body language instructional activity, students utilize blindfolds to communicate with classmates through words only, then use only physical actions to communicate and...
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Keith Haring Tables

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students view the artwork of Keith Haring and relate it to social pressures that they deal with. In this art and social awareness lesson, students view images of tables made by Keith Haring. They paint images of social pressures...
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Minnesota Floor Map

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the physical geography of Minnesota, work cooperatively to design a map of Minnesota and develop spatial and relative location of Minnesota landmarks and physical characteristics.
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Hot Problem Solving

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students follow the steps of the engineering design process to meet the challenge of getting their entire class from one location on the playground to the sidewalk without touching the ground between. The class develops a well...
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Moving with the Music

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students work cooperatively to recreate the rhythms of different modes of transportation. They discuss different modes of transportation. They create movements to accompany a song.
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Something Fishy Going On

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars create a video animation of how Swimmy gathered his fish friends together to form a great big fish that would frighten the predator tuna away. In art class each child create a small red fish which gets displayed in the...
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Staff Kids

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students participate in a group game to help them identify notes on both staves by using words.