These activities will allow students to discover the concepts of geometry through shape exploration and the creation of choreographic sequences.
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ArtsNow
- Date Added:
- 10/01/2022
These activities will allow students to discover the concepts of geometry through shape exploration and the creation of choreographic sequences.
In this lesson, students use movement phrases to model common fractions and decimal fractions with like denominators. They compare the fraction of locomotor and non-locomotor movements in a movement phrase. Students then create their own movement phrase and use fractions and decimals to describe their performance. The lesson helps students recognize that fractions are used in many aspects of our world, including the arts.
In this lesson, students explore the concepts of fractions, percentages, and decimals by creating dances using locomotor and non-locomotor movements.
In this lesson, students use their physical bodies to solve multiplication and division problems, using Hula Hoops to help group and enact math problems.
In this lesson, students listen to and perform chanted text, then explore how parts of the chant can be linked to geographic features on a map.
In this lesson, students will learn that inference is also present in music. They will examine music from different soundtracks to see how music is used to set the stage for events. They will describe how music gets louder, softer, slower, quicker, smoother, and choppier, and will then discuss what is happening after each occurrence of that particular section of music.
In this lesson, students will create a rhythmic composition using cups to demonstrate understanding and identification of various sounds. Musical skills addressed include improvising, composing, listening, and playing.
In this lesson, students will use music as an impetus for stating and supporting opinions. They will compose an opinion poster based on a narrative about a train using percussion instruments. This will involve group work which can lead the students to write individual pieces in which they support their opinions using descriptive words.
Counting the number of beats in a common folk song, the students will use composition and classroom instruments to discover different combinations for accompaniment.
In this lesson, students explore the life of Paul Revere through the lens of a painting of the Midnight Run. After viewing it, students write and enact a poem illustrating the event.
This video shows groups of students presenting their interpretations of the four phases of the moon using body movements. [3:49]
In this lesson, students calculate the perimeter of various geometric shapes and represent the perimeter with a movement phrase. They will identify the types of angles within each shape. Other students will identify the shape that was demonstrated.
In this lesson, students learn about the art of Wayne Thiebaud, and then create collaged personal pizza art, cutting their 'pies' into fractions.
In this lesson, students use the structure of an accordion book to identify parts of an essay: introduction, three supporting details, and conclusion. They then compose a personal story using events from the past school year and plan the introduction, details, and conclusion.
In this lesson, students will generate unique fantasy drawings that utilize perspective and create the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface. Deriving inspiration from the American painter and illustrator N.C. Wyeth's The Giant, students will imagine and create a world when a giant has come to visit their town! They will serve as the authors and the artists of their own creative stories while employing artistic strategies and techniques from the High Italian Renaissance.
In this lesson, students use their bodies to model the day/night cycles of the Sun and Earth. Next, they discuss the moon's role in the solar system and explore the eight phases of the moon by acting out a story. Finally, a song brings it all together to deepen the learning.
In this video, students state facts about frogs and butterflies as they each place themselves in hula hoops laid out to organize the similarities, differences, and commonalities between the two organisms. [2:46]
In this lesson, students learn about and create sequences and patterns as they move and dance.
In this lesson, student groups are assigned word problems that require order of operations to be solved. They solve their problems using math and then choreograph an answer to their problems that incorporates the order of operations. These are performed for the class and the associations made by the group are explained.
In this lesson, student groups are assigned word problems. They are tasked with solving their problems using dance and then choreographing answers to their problems. These are performed for the class and the associations made by the group are explained.