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All About Me
Music/Dance/Theater/Visual Arts/Language Arts/Social Studies
* Elementary School Unit (Grades 1-3)
Students learn about rhythm; locomotor and non-locomotor movement; story,
character and environment; portraiture. They use their music, dance, drama
and visual arts skills to explore their skeleton, breathing and circulatory
systems; emotions; family responsibilities; and the role of the arts in
their community. Lessons may be used individually. Based on ideas from
the Carmel Charter School faculty, Chandler, AZ.
Clarihew Dances I
Clarihew Dances II
Clarihew Dances III
Dance/Music/Languate Arts * Elementary School Unit (Grade 3)
Students learn to dance and create music for a clarihew poem. They then
create their own clarihew (name) poems with musical accompaniment.
Rock and Roll with Music and Movement
Music/Dance/Science * Elementary School 3/4 Day Unit (Grade 4)
Starting by reading Byrd Baylor's EVERYBODY NEEDS A ROCK, students demonstrate
their understanding of sedamentary, metamorphic and ignious rock through
the creation of music and movement. Based on ideas from Round Valley,
AZ teachers.
Yellow Bird and Me
Theater/Language Arts/Dance/Visual Arts * Upper Elementary School Unit
Improvised dramatic and dance activities and a collage exercise enhance
student comprehension of this novel. Based on a unit by Cici Aragon and
Patrick Elkins-Ziglarski, ASU Department of Theater
Compare and Contrast
Language Arts/Theater/Visual Arts/Dance/Social Studies
* Elementary School Unit (Grade 5)
Students practice comparing and contrasting the arts as they learn creation
and performance techniques and critical analysis skills in all four art
forms. The students attended a dance concert and a theater performance
that related to the social studies themes of racial injustice and developing
tolerance. Film can easily be substituted for the live performances. Students
also attended an art exhibit. Unit by Broadmor, Tempe, AZ teachers and
ASU faculty.
Dance and Painting Elements
Dance/Visual Arts * Middle School Lesson Plan
Students create a dance based on the visual arts concepts of line/shape,
color and texture.
Three Arts in Retrograde
Music/Language Arts/Visual Arts * Middle School Lesson Plan
A lesson using a Shel Silverstein poem and an M.C. Escher print to help
students understand and then compose a "retrograde" rhythm.
Understanding Stage Design: Using Visual
Elements to Provide Information to an Audience
Theater/Visual Arts * Middle School Unit
Students create a collage of their room as a step to visualizing a set
and selecting images and props as symbols for the nature of the room.
They then create settings for one-act plays and critique their
work.
Submit your lessons for possible inclusion to:
lin.wright@asu.edu
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