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In this lesson designed for kindergarteners, students experience the alphabet through movement. Learning Objectives/Goals Experience the Alphabet in movement, working alone and with a partner, locomotor words (actions),...
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This creative movement lesson using syllables is a great ice breaker for the beginning of the year or semester, a time when students are getting to know one another and the teacher is getting to know students’ names as...
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Students will explore the different steps and movements that make up common social dance line dances. They will then take some of these ideas and create their own unique line dance by manipulating these movements and using...
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In this lesson plan for elementary grade levels 1-3 students learn about weather energy patterns through body movement. Learning Objectives/Goals Experience different energies in movement, isolations of the body,...
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In this lesson plan designed for grade levels K-2, students explore size and space relationships of objects through motion. Learning Objectives/Goals Using visual aide to springboard movement, investigation of levels...
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This lesson plan relates to the Gestures Dance in Fin Amour. Expand your movement vocabulary by abstracting literal "pedestrian" actions. Learning Objectives/Goals Students will learn to abstract movement by using...
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Moving through space, using different tempos and locomotor movements and levels. This lesson plan relates to the Feet Dance in Fin Amour. Learning Objectives/Goals Students will create a pattern using basic locomotor...
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This lesson plan will explore various ways of walking in different directions on different levels, inspired by Fin Amour Walking Dance. Learning Objectives/Goals Explore Levels (high, medium and low), Use of personal and...
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Using creativity to design and explore three simple frozen shapes. Learning Objectives/Goals This lesson plan relates to the Shape Dance from Fin Amour, focuses on creating movement from the shapes of objects in the room....
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In this lesson designed for elementary grades 4-6, students explore dance elements by learning about math fractions. Learning Objectives/Goals Dance Elements Time and Space, Using fractions in rhythm, Using fractions in...
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In this lesson designed for kindergarteners, students explore geometric shapes and how their bodies move through motion activity. Learning Objectives/Goals Exploration of shapes (circle, square, rectangle, triangle, etc.)...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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....