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Moving thru Math
Dancing Digits
Grades 2/3
Fluency-adding & subtracting
There's no greater joy than watching students laugh as they work together to solve math problems and demonstrate place value with their bodies – in fact, it’s so fun, that they often forget they’re doing math! Through playful activities, students will explore digits along with the dance elements' shapes and levels. They’ll solve addition and subtraction problems using their bodies, demonstrating the solution and noting a number line, and place value.
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Lesson 1
Number line – least to greatest
Lesson 2
Fluency- adding and subtracting 2- and 3-digit numbers
Lesson 3
Place Value
Lessons can be scheduled individually or as a package
2 & 3D Shapes
Grades K-2
Circle! Square! Cone! Sphere! In this workshop, students explore the dance elements shapes, and levels. Then, through engaging and fun creative movement activities students will create 2D and 3D shapes using props and their bodies!
This workshop only requires one lesson.
Fraction - Action
Grades 3-5
Students explore the dance elements size and shape, demonstrating the following math concepts through movement:
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Equivalent fractions
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Differentiating greater or less than
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The correlation between fractions and decimals
Lesson 1
Students will be able to identify equivalent fractions and create a fraction dance
Lesson 2
Students will develop an understanding of the relationship between decimals and fractions
Lesson 3
Students will represent least to greatest, including fractions and decimals using a human number line
Lessons can be scheduled individually or as a package
Moving thru Science
K-5
Animal Classifications
Life Cycles
Students will explore the drama element tableau and the dance element energy. By the end of lesson 2 students will be able to demonstrate the animal classification through tableau and movement.
Lesson 1
Through creative movement activities students explore the dance elements BEST: Body, Energy, Shapes, and Time.
Lesson 2
Students will create tableau to demonstrate their understanding of the different animal classifications.
Students will learn about life cycles through the use of movement and their bodies. This lesson has been adapted for all grade levels. Options include the life cycle of a bean plant, butterfly, water cycle, or exploring incomplete/complete metamorphosis.
Lesson 1
Through creative movement activities students explore the dance elements BEST: Body, Energy, Shapes, and Time.
Lesson 2
Students create dances to demonstrate their understanding of the science-chosen concept.
Parts of a Plant and their function
Students will explore the drama element tableau and the dance element energy. They will create a tableau
(frozen picture) of each plant part, then through a short movement phrase they will demonstrate the function of the plant.
Lesson 1:
Through creative movement activities students explore the dance elements BEST: Body, Energy, Shapes, and Time.
Lesson 2:
Students will create a tableau demonstrating the different parts of a plant and their function.
Grade 6
This lesson is on the structure of the earth's atmosphere. Participants relate concepts of layering,
air density, and particles to the dance concepts of level, kinesphere, and shape.
Lesson 1
Through creative movement activities students explore the dance elements BEST: Body, Energy, Shapes, and Time. Students will explore the shrinking wall activity!
Lesson 2
Students will relate the shrinking wall activity to the air density of the four levels of the
atmosphere, and will finish preparation for the Sphere’s Density Dance.
Atmosphere- Density Dance
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PreSchool Offerings
Why use Arts Integration with preschool curriculum?
Arts integration combines the arts—singing and making music, dancing, role-playing, and storytelling—with subjects like math, science, and reading. Infusing the arts into core curriculum encourages the students to practice creativity and infuses joy into learning!
Creative Movement and Language Arts
Lesson 1:
Through creative movement activities, students learn the dance elements BEST: Body, Energy, Shapes, and Time. Students create movements to keywords from the story.
As the book is read aloud, students use movement to enhance their story retelling, gestures to dramatize repetition, and sounds to amplify key moments.
Lesson 2:
Through Creative movement activities, students explore organizational language by creating an obstacle course they help create by retelling the story of Rosie’s Walk.
Standards:
Shows an understanding of words and their meanings
Lesson 1 Benchmark A:
Demonstrates understanding of age-appropriate vocabulary across many topic areas and demonstrates a wide variety of words and their meanings within each area (e.g., world knowledge, names of body parts and feelings).
Lesson 2 Benchmark B:
Demonstrates understanding of functional and organizational language (e.g., same, and different, in front of and behind, next to, opposite, below) in multiple environments
Creative Movement and Science
Students will learn about life cycles using movement and their bodies. Options include the life cycle of a bean plant, butterfly, or the water cycle.
Lesson 1:
Through creative movement activities students explore the dance elements BEST: Body, Energy, Shapes, and Time.
Lesson 2:
Using the dance elements shapes and levels, students will create dances to demonstrate their understanding of the science-chosen concept
Standards:
Scientific Inquiry domain - Life Science
Lessons 1 & 2 Benchmark C:
Understands that all living things grow, change, and go through life cycles
Creative Movement and Math
Lesson 1:
In this workshop, students explore the dance elements shapes, and levels. Then, through engaging and fun creative movement activities students will create 2D shapes using props and their bodies!
*This workshop only requires one lesson
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