Creative Movement

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Creative Movement

	Dance Like Me
	Fly, Butterfly, Fly
	Sense of Poetry (Physical Development)

Dance Like Me

Curriculum Areas: movement

Children: K-2

Assessment/Rationale: Each child will cooperate with the others to mimic each dance move

Objectives: Students will learn to appreciate and imitate a variety of dancing movements.

Space/Materials needed: room for children to move about

Procedure:

Introduction: Have students think of a simple movement pattern.

Teaching Sequence: Ask one student at a time to come up to the front of the class and perform it for the class. Ask the students to explain to the class how to perform the movements.

Closure: Have the class repeat the movements and continue to make sure each child has presented their movement.

Evaluation: Were the children able to repeat other moves properly? Did the children stay on task?

--Taken from Can Teach

Fly Butterfly, Fly!

Curriculum Areas: music, Physical Education

Children: Pre-K-2

Assessment/Rationale: Children will move with the music and change their movements to the music.

Objectives: To encourage dramatic movement with music. To introduce a variety of music, in this lesson Chopin.

Space/Materials needed: room for children to move about, CD player, Waltz No.1 in Eb (MAJOR Op. 18) by Fredric Chopin

Proc edure:

Introduction: First the teacher can talk about how the butterfly evolves and the process it takes. Have students lay on their bellies. And tell them that you are going to read a story and they have to re-act the movements I say.

Teaching Sequence: Read the story while the students lay on the ground. Emphasize when a movement is coming.

Closure: The students will eventually develop into a butterfly and the music by Chopin represents the butterfly flying free.

Evaluation: Did the children get confused when the movements were read? Did the children need longer time to talk about a butterfly and its life process?

--Taken from LessonPlanspage.com

Sense of Poetry

Curriculum Areas: science and language arts

Children: 1-3

Assessment/Rationale: The children will become aware with their senses and know what they can use each sense for.

Objectives: Children will identify organs used for each of the five senses. They will identify objects in accordance with each of the five senses. The students will create a poem, at least five lines long, using three of the five senses.

Space/Materials needed: small jar of materials that can be used with the sense, and paper

Procedure:

Introduction: Ask the students “How do you think you could name and describe an object if you are unable to see it?” Ask the students several questions about their senses. For example What would be worse if you couldn’t see or hear?

Teaching Sequence: Have students use their sense around the classroom to investigate items. Have the students use all but one sense each time.

Closure: Have students write about their experience. Students can write about what they saw or draw a picture.

Evaluation: Does each child understand all of the five senses? Will the children be able to show me each sense on their body? Were the children actively engaged when they experimenting?

--Taken from LessonPlanspage.com

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