Lesson Plan - improvisational movement

Kallie Bush Lesson Plan

Date: 6.27.16                          Grade Level: 1st

Concept: expressing movement

Objectives: 1. Given a simple tune, students will freely express improvisational movement.

2. Given a few simple movements, students will create their own individual dance.

3. Given a song with rhythm, students will be able to accurately count how many quarter notes and eighth notes there are.

Introduction: I will use a song that we previously learned the rhythm to

Vocabulary: improvisation

Body of Lesson: We will be going over the rhythms of the song, then we will have an activity with scarves that the students will improvise their own movements and create a dance. Then we will count out the beat of a new song.

Accommodations/Modifications: For the students that have trouble counting, they can just clap along. For the students that cannot hear, they can move to their own beats.

Multiple Intelligence(s) Addressed: Everyone of every intelligence can enjoy this

Assessment: For formative assessment I will assess whether or not the students are comfortable improvising in front of their classmates, and I will do what I can to make them more comfortable. Then I will see which students can accurately count the different notes. Then in the last 5 minutes of class I can ask the students how they felt about it

Summative assessment could be a performance at the end of the year or quarter.

Materials: Scarves, CD or music playing device

Standards: 1 Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

2 organize and develop artistic ideas and work

6 convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

8 interpret intent and meaning in artistic work