Musical Geography 3-5
Description
Through speaking and listening to chant text, students will acquire geographic understandings while developing composing, listening, moving, and playing skills.
Through speaking and listening to chant text, students will acquire geographic understandings while developing composing, listening, moving, and playing skills.
This lesson invites students to explore the life of Paul Revere through the lens of a painting of the Midnight Run. Using the painting as a springboard, students write and enact a poem illustrating the event. This exercise is a wonderful tool to increase presentation skills, empathy and ensemble in your classroom.
Introduce students to the ancient art of storytelling through the use of a Mayan folktale. Invite them to use art to recall narrative elements as they design story panels. Encourage them to reconstruct the story sequence through interpretive dance movements.
To help students begin to personalize the Ride of Paul Revere we need to allow them the opportunity to experience some of the emotion at the time of his ride. This lesson explores the individual impact of the term, “The British are coming” for the other members of the Sons of Liberty.
Using map symbols and keys, students will create “dancing” maps to illustrate routes to and from identified destinations. Explore movement and dance in your classroom and discover a new world of learning!