Transferring Rhythmic Patterns from Music to Movement
Dance * Lesson Plan (Students with Special Needs)
Students with special needs learn to move to whole, half, and quarter beats.

Arts Careers
Dance/Drama/Music/Visual Arts * Links for Students (Grades 3-12)
Grades 3-7 interactive materials for students to explore the arts as careers.

Weather Dance
Dance/Science * Elementary School Unit (Grades 3-4)
A three lesson unit using dance to explore clouds, wind, lightening and thunder.

Moving to a Path Map
Dance * Elementary School Lesson Plan
Students learn to draw path maps and construct dances with locomotor and non locomotor movements

Making a Dance Involving Balance
Dance * Elementary School Lesson Plan
A dance idea for elementary school children that requires them to explore balancing movements, to work in pairs to create a dance, and to discuss their classmate's work in a positive manner.

Collaborative Choreography, Contrasting Emotions
Dance * Middle School Lesson Plan
Students choreograph a dance based on two contrasting emotions.

Pantomime vs. Abstract Gesture
Dance * Middle School Lesson Plan
Students create abstract movement to express feelings.

Improvisation and Choreography
Dance * High school Lesson Plan
Students explore the relationship between improvised movement and choreography.

Chance Art: Pollock, Cage and Cunningham
Dance * Advanced High School Lesson Plan
Students use the experience of examining a Jackson Pollock "drip" painting and a Merce Cunningham and John Cage "chance" dance to create and record a dance.

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