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| A Character Lifebox
Students create a "life box" for a character in the play Shakespeare Stealer, based on the book (and Kennedy Center play) of the same name.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| A Lens into the Past
This lesson which supports the YFP Production of Dreams In The Golden Country uses photographs to visually describe the transition from old world to New World experienced by immigrants to the United States.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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A Listening Doll
Students discuss the process of storytelling and listening, and create a listening doll.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Acoustical Science
This unit explores the connection between size and materials used to create a musical instrument, and the pitches and tones the instrument makes.
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Music |
Language Arts, Science |
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| Adjective Monster
Students will be introduced to adjectives and explore how descriptive words are used to creatively tell stories. Students will choose an adjective to describe a monster, and then create their own monster using paper sculpture techniques.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Math |
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| All Around the Baseball Field
Explore baseball by constructing a mock baseball field using an assortment of materials including pattern blocks, tiles and a variety of geometric shapes.
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Music, Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Math, Physical Education |
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| America, A Home for Every Culture
Students will explore how various cultures have contributed to making the United States a unique and diverse country.
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Music, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| An American Scene Painter
Following the example of artist Charles Burchfield, students create original watercolors from observations recorded in personal journals.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Animal Habitats
Early primary students will learn about animal habitats through song, movement, and creative dramatization.
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Music, Theater |
Language Arts, Math, Science |
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| Arts Careers
This lesson exposes students to several careers in the visual arts through the use of "arts stations".
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Ballet and Classical Music
Students are introduced to the conceptual and practical elements of classical ballet as they learn ballet history, vocabulary, and steps.
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Dance, Music |
Foreign Language |
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| Brass Instruments and Pitch
Students will create their own "brass" instruments, and make predictions about how pitch changes based on the distance air travels in the instrument.
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Music, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Science |
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| Can You Measure Up?
Primary students will learn measuring skills as they explore cooking, movement, and creative dramatization.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Math, Science |
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| Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting
In this lesson, students learn basic calligraphy strokes for the creation of Chinese writing as an art form.
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Visual Arts |
Social Studies |
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| Chinese Instruments
Students identify and classify Western and traditional Chinese instruments, then create an instrument from recycled materials.
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Music, Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Cinderella Trilogy
Students will compare and contrast different versions of the Cinderella story.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Math, Social Studies |
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| Comparing Tales through Performance
Students identify similarities and differences between contemporary and traditional versions of The Three Little Pigs.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Counting Crows
Fusing math and art, students analyze Aesop's fable, "The Crow and the Pitcher" through puppetry and experimentation.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Math |
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| Creating "AB" Patterns
Students will construct patterns concept using visual arts designs and math manipulatives.
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Visual Arts |
Math |
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| Creating a Wall Story
In this lesson, students create a wall story as a means of retelling a story.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Creating Comic Strips
Students create comic strips to express ideas for which words alone are insufficient.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Creative Voices of Harlem
In this lesson, students learn about the artists of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Music, Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Dancing Winds
In this lesson, students are introduced to the heating and cooling, expanding and condensing properties of air masses. Students will use movement skills and dance to learn and communicate information about the patterns of wind cycles, and the attributes of the atmosphere.
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Dance |
Science |
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| Discovering Peace
Students explore peace through vocabulary, discussion, pantomime, illustration, and group construction of a "Peace Quilt."
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Dreams in the Golden Country
This unit introduces students to American immigration paths and time periods, Ellis Island, and immigration waves of the late 19th to early 20th century.
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All |
Language Arts, Science, Social Studies |
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| Every Picture Tells a Story
This unit explores how illustrations contribute to storytelling, as well as the techniques that illustrators use to tell a story.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Exploring Neighborhoods through Art
The book Harold and the Purple Crayon is used to launch an exploration of colors and neighborhoods.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Exploring Pioneer America
This unit focuses on post-colonial westward expansion of United States territory, and introduces an explanation of westward exploration and expansion.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Harlem
This unit introduces students to Harlem, starting with black migration from Africa and from the American South to the North, to the Harlem Renaissance (including jazz musicians, visual artists, writers, and poets), and on to aspects of daily Harlem life.
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Dance, Music, Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Physical Education, Social Studies |
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| Harold and the Purple Crayon
This unit uses Crockett Johnson's Harold and the Purple Crayon to explore neighborhoods, principles of color, and map reading.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Harriet Tubman Integrated Unit
Students use a variety of sources to research Harriet Tubman's life and accomplishments, then use this information to create a collage and choreograph a movement piece.
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Dance, Music, Visual Arts |
Social Studies |
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| Harriet Tubman Integrated Unit: Lesson 1
Students use a variety of sources, including photographs and artwork, to research and report on Harriet Tubman's life and accomplishments.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Harriet Tubman Integrated Unit: Lesson 2
Students depict a scene from the life of Harriet Tubman, in the style of Jacob Lawrence.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Harriet Tubman Integrated Unit: Lesson 3
In this lesson, students are introduced to the spiritual, an African American musical form that originated during the time of slavery.
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Music |
Social Studies |
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| Harriet Tubman Integrated Unit: Lesson 4
Students use movement to express the words and music of a song about Harriet Tubman.
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Dance, Music |
Physical Education, Social Studies |
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| Hats Off To Color
Early primary students will learn about primary and secondary colors.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Math |
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| Historical Figure: A Monologue
Students choose a famous person from their state and research his or her contributions to history.
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Theater |
Social Studies |
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| Immigrant Contributions to America
Students will recognize the various contributions of immigrants to the United States.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Science, Social Studies |
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| Immigrating to America
Students perform dramatizations depicting what it was like for new immigrants to come through Ellis Island at the turn of the century.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Jazz Dance and Music
Students will learn about jazz music and jazz dance, explore basic movements of jazz dance, and then create a poem inspired by jazz music.
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Dance, Music |
Language Arts |
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| Kaleidoscopic Cloud Dance
In this lesson, students use hand-sculptures and body shapes to create tableaus of the constantly changing shapes of clouds. Kinesthetic learners will benefit from this lesson relating movement and dance activities to atmospheric properties, cloud types, and the wind.
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Dance |
Science |
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| Learning about Maps and Colors
Students develop basic geography skills by reading and creating neighborhood maps.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Let's Talk About Painting
This lesson introduces the elements of the arts and the appropriate vocabulary for discussing paintings.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Life of a Navajo Weaver
Students explore ways of relating a weaving pattern to dance movement.
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Dance |
Social Studies |
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| Magicicada: A Life Cycle
Students will learn about the Magicicada, and they will create collage cicadas and poems using facts about cicadas along with origami replicas.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Science |
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| Making a Rainstick
Students learn about the history of the musical instrument called a rainstick.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Masks and Aesop's Fables
Aesop’s fables are over 2,600 years old, but the stories—and their morals—are still relevant today. In this lesson, students will learn a fable, make simple masks, and retell the story as part of a Greek chorus using masks.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Melodies & Math: Telephone Improvisations
In this lesson students will use the keypad of an online telephone to improvise melodies using 4/4 and 2/4 time, create instruments to accompany their numeric melody, and stage a collaborative class performance using each group’s composition.
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Music |
Language Arts, Math |
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| Mixed Media Messages: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
In this lesson students will explore varied aspects of recycling, identify and draw recycling symbols, create a mock television commercial focusing on the benefits of recycling, and create a stage set backdrop made of recycled materials.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Science |
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| Mountains: A Drama Exploration
Students use creative dramatics to demonstrate an understanding of the three ways mountains form.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Musical Harlem
Students learn about the musicians of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Dance, Music, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Native American Chants and Movement
This lesson challenges students to create expressive movements inspired by Native American chants and poetry.
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Dance |
Language Arts |
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| Navajo Weaving
Students explore patterns of Navajo weavings and create and perform a traveling pattern based on them.
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Dance, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Oceans: A Fact Haiku
The sound and movement of ocean waves may be called poetry in motion. This lesson uses the ocean to teach students about a form of Japanese poetry. After learning about haiku, and hearing haiku, students listen to the ocean to inspire them in writing their own haiku.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Science |
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| Peace 1: The Quilt Story
Students use pantomime to communicate places they find peace.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Peace 2: Writing and Illustrating a Diamante Poem
Students discuss and use vocabulary related to the concept of peace., then create a peace poem using diamante structure.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Peace 3: Making a Quilt
In this lesson, students learn and use vocabulary related to quilts and quilting.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Peace 4: Quilts
Students will explore quilt-making around the world, then decide on a design and create their own peace quilts.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Percussion Instruments and Pitch
Students will make predictions and explore how pitch changes based on the materials used in instrument construction
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Music, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Science |
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| Pioneer America: Folklore and Tall Tales
Through improvisational activities, students are introduced to the folklore of the pioneers; specifically, the tall tale.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Pioneer America: Journey West
In this lesson, students perform monologues about the early pioneers in America and their motivations for moving West.
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Theater |
Social Studies |
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| Pioneer America: Legendary Westerners
Students focus on legendary westerners to understand how individuals impact history.
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Theater |
Social Studies |
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| Pioneer America: Pioneer Living
Students learn what life was like for early American pioneers and create a tableaux depicting a pioneer scene.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Portrait of Place, Portrait of a Family
Students learn about portraying places and life stories, both literally and metaphorically, through text and performance.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Reading Illustrations
Students explore how illustrations contribute to the telling of a story.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Scientific Impressions
Within this unit, students are introduced to artistic representations of wind, trees, and flowers.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Scratch Dance
After gathering factual information on an insect of their choice, students will create and perform an original poem, and in the process learn how a poem can be used to communicate information.
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Theater |
Language Arts, Science |
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| Shaping Patterns and Dancing Shapes
Students explain, and then use rope to create, several geometric shapes. They then create a dance based on the shapes.
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Dance |
Math |
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| Sing Me a Song About the USA
Students compose a song related to a specific geographic area of the United States.
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Music |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Sphere's Density Dance
Above our heads nature directs an atmospheric drama unparalleled here on the ground. This lesson focuses on students using movement at different levels (low, medium and high) to understand and convey concepts such as layering, air-density and particles.
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Dance |
Science |
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| Street Games
Students experience street games of Harlem by learning about and playing established games.
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Dance, Theater |
Language Arts, Physical Education, Social Studies |
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| String Instruments and Pitch
Students will create their own string instruments, and explore how pitch is altered.
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Music |
Language Arts, Science |
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| Sunflowers
Van Gogh’s sunflowers are used to introduce the parts of a flower, and to encourage students' own artistic impressions of flowers.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Telling a Story through Dance
This lesson uses The Nutcracker to introduce the concept of telling a story through dance and pantomime.
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Dance |
Language Arts |
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| The Great Migration
Students create a mural to learn about the migration of African Americans to Harlem.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| The Way West: A Duet of Plays
Students will explore the pioneers' and settlers' ways of life through drama and song.
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Theater, Visual Arts |
Social Studies |
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| Today I Feel . . .
After discussing books about feelings, students tell their own stories, using facial expressions, gestures, and changes in voice to express emotions.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| Tolerance: Comparing Cultural Holidays
Students compare the traditions, music, and visual art associated with the U.S. celebration of Halloween and Mexico's Day of the Dead.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Trees in Art and Nature
Students learn about trees, comparing those depicted in Van Gogh's paintings to those found in nature. Leaf rubbings are created as a final activity.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Science |
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| Understanding Tenement Life
Through historical photos, students explore what life was like for poor immigrants living in tenements at the turn of the century.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| Uppity Farm Animals
Students will analyze problems and create solutions by dramatizing the story, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type and the poem, "Farmer Brown Has a Problem."
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Music, Theater |
Language Arts, Science |
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| Walk in My Shoes
Students examine a variety of shoes to design a durable dance shoe.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts |
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| Weather and Wind
Students will write a report on wind and weather patterns, and will create a dance demonstrating weather patterns.
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Dance |
Science |
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| Weather on the Move
This unit gives teachers instruction to lead and facilitate movement and dance activities about atmospheric properties, cloud types, and the wind.
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Dance |
Science |
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| What a Character!
Students analyze a character's traits, actions and motives, and then use the tools of a storyteller (face, body, and voice) to bring the character to life.
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Theater |
Language Arts |
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| What Does this Song Really Say?
Students listen to, sing, and read the lyrics to various African-American spirituals.
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Music |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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| When I Was Young
Students will interview family or community members about their youth, and share their stories with the class.
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Theater |
Social Studies |
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| Who Has Seen the Wind?
The movement of the wind causes trees to sway, grass stalks to bend, and flowers to quiver in its wake. In this lesson, students are introduced to the Beaufort scale for measuring wind force, and learn techniques for portraying the concept of moving wind in painting, pantomime and poetry.
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Visual Arts |
Science |
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| Wonka's New Product
Students propose making a new candy by writing a persuasive letter to the character of Willy Wonka.
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Dance |
Language Arts, Math |
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| Woodwind Instruments and Pitch
Students will make predictions and explore how pitch changes based on the length of the air pipe.
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Music, Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Science |
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| You Too Can Haiku
Students will write their own haiku, which they will publish on a Japanese-style scroll.
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Visual Arts |
Language Arts, Social Studies |
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