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 from this lesson.

Topic: Imagination: Creating Character and Story
Objective: I can use my imagination to create characters and stories.
Vocabulary: imagination, characters, pantomime
Extensions:

• Look for pictures in books and magazines.  Without using the text, ask students what they think is going on in the picture.  Who are the characters?  What are they doing?  Arrange students in a tableau to mimic the images.  Tap each student, one at a time, and have them move in character and say something in character.  For more advanced work, have students improv a scene.

Topic: Shapes Make Animals!
Objective: I can identify geometric shapes.
Vocabulary: circle, rectangle, triangle
Extensions: 

• Show pictures or illustrations of animals and ask the students to identify the different shapes they see in each animal (e.g., circles for eyes, triangles for ears, rectangles for bodies).

• Students can make collage to design their own animals