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  • How Not to Dance to Lyrics

    The goal of this lesson plan is to re-enforce the importance and power of abstract thinking and abstract movement in the choreographic process. This lesson plan can help teachers fight the pre-conceived notion that dance...

  • How Seeds Move (2025)

    Using creative movement, students will explore the many different seed shapes and how the movement of wind, water, animals, or gravity can help a seed move to a new place to grow. Learning Objectives/Goals Using creative...

  • Leaping over a stream

    This lesson plan relates to the Leaping and Running Dances from Fin Amour. Learning Objectives/Goals Introduce students to the locomotor movement of Leaping in a fun, creative way. Materials Needed A large open room, a...

  • Life Cycle of a Plant (2025)

    This creative movement lesson designed for 3rd grade explores the process of a plant’s life cycle through elements of dance. Learning Objectives/Goals Using the elements of dance, including levels, positive/negative space,...

  • Over, Under, Around and Through - Prepositions and Geometry in Movement

    In this lesson designed for elementary grades 4-6, students explore shapes and positive and negative space through movement. Learning Objectives/Goals Use of Prepositions and movement (over, under, around, through, in,...

  • Points of View

    In this lesson plan designed for fourth graders, students learn about parts of a sentence through movement exercises. Introduction Class expectations (Good listening, following directions, be creative, be active), Space...

  • Positive and Negative Space

    Students will explore the concepts of positive and negative space in the moving space and what that means in the body. Learning Objectives/Goals Establishing positive and a negative space, what these look like in space and...

  • Recipe for Making a Dance

    In this lesson, students will use the choreographic elements of direction (forward, sideways, backwards), levels (low, medium, high), speed (slow, medium, fast) and actions (verbs) to create a dance. Learning...

  • Rhythm study with Straight, Curved and Angle Lines

    In this lesson plan, students will explore rhythm, using shape and 3 types of lines (straight, curved and angles). Students will work together in groups and use their counting skills while moving. Learning Objectives/Goals...

  • Seeds

    This is a short lesson plan using the lifecycle of a seed to explore body part movements, levels and time. Learning Objectives/Goals Students will create movement using the inspiration of a lifecycle of a seed. In the...

  • Shapes with a Chair

    This lesson plan relates to the Shape Dance from Fin Amour. Learning Objectives/Goals Students will explore making a series of shapes with a chair as a design partner. Materials Needed A chair, music or drum Introduction...

  • Simple Machines

    In this lesson plan, students will explore how 6 types of simple machines move. Learning Objectives/Goals Students will use creative movement to model the tasks of the simple machines. Students will work alone and in...

  • Slow and Fast Changes to the Earth's Surface

    Students will use creative movement to explore the slow and fast changes that happen to the earth's surface, including landslides, earthquakes, volcanoes, and erosion. Learning Objectives/Goals Working with different...

  • States of Matter and Dance (part 1)(2025)

    This creative movement lesson designed for 6th grade explores the three states of matter through shapes, movement, and spatial pathways. Learning Objectives/Goals Explore the three states of matter through shapes, movement...

  • Straight Curved and Angular Pathways

    Students will explore the element of shape in the their bodies and use the element of time and space to create patterns using straight, curved and angular lines. Learning Objectives/Goals Students will work with straight,...

  • Time, Space, and Energy for Kindergarten Dance

    This class will focus on introducing the elements of dance (time, space and energy) to Kindergarten Students. Students will move in many different ways exploring the space around them and different ways their bodies move....

  • Tracing Space Improvisation

    Dancers explore different ways of dancing in and with the space through exercises in the center and across the floor Learning Objectives/Goals Dance element - space with emphasis on the use of positive and negative space....

  • Verbs and Adverbs

    Explore and experience how describing words can change how a movement can look and feel. Learning Objectives/Goals To experience kinesthetically verbs and adverbs and discover the differences in “how” a movement can be...

  • Walking and changing Directions

    Using Tempo, Students will explore space and time. This lesson relates to the Walking Dance in Fin Amour. Learning Objectives/Goals Exploring the Elements of Dance - Space and Time using direction and tempo. Materials...

  • Wilson's Phalarope Life Cycle

    Students will explore the life cycle of Wilson's Phalarope, a bird that lives at the Great Salt Lake. Learning Objectives/Goals Use descriptive words to define how a bird's shape and size change throughout its life cycle...

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What People are Saying

This activity was valuable because it helped students make connections between dance, rhythm, healthy lifestyles, and expression. The students were impressed by the talent of the dancers and it was motivating to them.
Opportunities for art and expression are so limited at school but so essential and valuable for all students, especially those who struggle to learn through traditional methods. My Kindergarteners have been dancing since you left!
This was so engaging. I looked around the auditorium and every student was watching. Not one person was talking or distracted
This activity is valuable to teachers and students because it gives them a creative outlet. We need movement in the classroom to engage, energize and deepen student learning.
I got great ideas on how to incorporate movement into math and science lessons.
I loved how you made movement and exercise relatable to the students. The dancers were full of energy and there was very little down time so students stayed engaged.
Our children were captivated by the performance. They listened to you and they were learning without knowing. They usually giggle when bodies are shown and talked about. But the way you presented it was so tastefully done, they now do poses and movement around the room and outside. You brokesome barriers and they took that permission and literally ran with it!
This activity got the students up and moving. It made them believe in their abilities to use their bodies to express themselves.