Topic: Energy

Objective: I can move my body in many ways!
Vocabulary: energy, qualities of movement
Extensions: 

• As you read a book, discuss the way a character moves. Stand up and try it. Ask "How does it feel to move like___?" Suggested books: Giraffes Can't Dance, Pout-Pout Fish

• Practice moving with different energies:

  • Bounce like a rubber ball

  • Collapse like a rag doll

  • Jiggle like jello

  • Burst like a water balloon

  • Melt like an ice cream cone

  • Flick a fly from your arm, from your nose, from your ear

  • Float and sink like a hot air balloon

  • Glide along as if skating on ice

  • Pounce like a ninja

  • Prance like a show pony with high steps

  • Dodge like a boxer who misses a punch

  • Pull a very heavy elephant across the room

  • Push a car

  • Lift a very heavy box

  • Shake like you are salt in a shaker

  • Explode like popcorn going from kernel to being popped

  • Chop like a karate expert

  • Slither like a snake

  • Walk in a bound way like a penguin

  • Swing like a monkey from tree to tree

  • Sway like a tree in a breeze

  • Spin like a top

  • Stomp like you are crushing grapes or bugs

  • Shiver like you are cold

  • Wave your arms and body like the ocean waves

  • Wiggle like cooked spaghetti

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

Topic:  Loud and Quiet
Objective: I can hear and make loud and quiet sounds.
Vocabulary: loud, quiet
Extensions: 

• Practice singing any song quietly or loudly (not yelling or shouting).

• Listen to a lullaby. They're quiet because someone is sleeping.

• Dance with “quiet” (small) and “loud” (big) dance motions to Quiet and Loud Dance Party.

Topic: Tableau
Objective: I can control my body to create shapes and tell stories
Vocabulary: tableau, character
Extensions:

• Create more tableaux.  Ask students to think of a group activity.  Have students for the tableau.  Encourage them to use different levels and shapes with their bodies.  Ask the audience what they see in the tableau.  For more advanced work, have students create a tableau that could happen before this one and one for after this one.  Finally, have students tell a story about the characters in the tableau.

Topic: When Lines Move
Objective:  I can use lines to  show repetition, pattern, and movement.
Vocabulary: line, movement, setting
Extensions: 

• Play different sounds to convey various settings (e.g. birds chirping at a park, waves crashing in a beach). Then students will use that as an inspiration to create a line drawing that show different types of lines to convey movement from the sounds.