Topic: My Body

Objective: I can move my body in many ways!
Vocabulary: freeze, general space, locomotor movement, non-locomotor movement, personal space
Extensions: 

• Practice moving body parts in many ways like shaking your head and hands, lifting the shoulders one at a time, balancing on one foot, two hands and a foot, one elbow and a knee, etc. 

• Practice crossing the midlines in the body by touching your right hand to left foot, left elbow to right knee, and skipping. 

• Practice moving and freezing in personal space with Freeze Dance!

Currently, media arts lessons are only offered in grades 3-5.

Topic: Steady Beat
Objective: I can keep a steady beat.
Vocabulary: steady beat
Extensions: 

• Keep a steady beat with any song or poem. Show the beat by clapping, marching, tapping your lap, or have students choose their own way to show the beat!

• Review the book “The Pout-Pout Fish” by Deborah Diesen, which we used in this lesson. Tap the beat while chanting the refrain.

Topic: Actors Tools & Following Directions
Objective(s): 

• I can use my actor’s tools to create sound effects and gestures for different settings.

• I can listen and follow directions.

Vocabulary: sound effects, mimic, character, setting, gesture
Extensions:

• Read aloud books that have options for repetition, mimicking and action. The Old Man and the Turnip is an example.

• Create a soundscape to another story with multiple settings.

Topic:  Line
Objective: 

• I can use crayons to make light/bold color.

• I can use crayons to make thick and thin lines.

Vocabulary: line, outline, bold
Extensions:

• Draw a face using one continuous line drawing

• Draw something out of 3 squiggly lines!