Topic: My Body

Objective:

• Bodies can move.

• I can move my body.

• I can respond to others moving.

• I can identify body parts.

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 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, 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: Emotions and Facial Expressions
Objective: I can use my face to show emotions
Vocabulary: facial expression
Extensions:

• Watch this video again, pausing to allow students to mirror the faces.

• Have students display an emotion using facial expression, other students mimic it and then guess what emotion it is.

• Have students draw facial expressions on printed face templates. They then create the face themselves and ask a friend to guess what the emotion is.

Topic: Line
Objective: I can create an abstract drawing with thick and thin lines.
Vocabulary: thick, thin, pattern
Extensions: