Topic: My Body

Objective: I can move my body in many ways!
Vocabulary: level, size, space
Extensions: 

• Practice moving at a high and low levels like walking on tip top, crawling, galloping, rolling, etc. 

• Read a favorite story and ask the students to think about how the character moves. Have them embody the character by moving like the character on each page. Suggested book: Giraffes Can't Dance

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

Topic: Echo & Call and Response
Objective: I can perform an echo and a call and response.
Vocabulary: echo; call and response
Extensions: 

• Practice echo (songs, clapping etc.). We sang "ABC Rock" and "Down By the Bay" in our lesson.

• Review the book “Jump, Frog, Jump” by Robert Kalan, which we used in this lesson. This is call and response form - the question is the call, and the response is "jump, frog, jump." Have students say the response.

Topic: Mirroring
Objective: I can work with a partner and mimic or mirror their actions
Vocabulary:  mimic, mirror, gesture, leader, follower
Extensions:

• Lead students through a two-person mirror exercise where one student leads and the other follows.  Find some tips for this here and here. Build on that and have students mirror performing simple daily exercises (wash their face, brush their teeth, open a jar, etc.)

• Play this video for students to practice mirroring with both body and voice.

Topic:  Composition
Objective: I can cut and glue paper shapes to create a creature collage.
Vocabulary:  collage, glue, scissors, value
Extensions: