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 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: The Actors Tools and The 5 Senses
Objective: I can use gestures to show the five senses.
Vocabulary: gesture
Extensions:

• Tell or read a story featuring the five senses. Have students pause in the story to pantomime using their senses.

• Try this activity that addresses the 5 senses and SEL giving students tools for calming down.

Topic:  Line
Objective: I can show feelings with shapes and lines!
Vocabulary:  line, character, setting, feelings
Extensions: 

• Practice using various lines by drawing it across the page: wavy, broken, zigzag, squiggly

• Use movement to show emotion by walking an expressive line with this activity