Using Physical Activities to Enhance Your Lessons

Moving Tales From ArtsEdge - students practice using their bodies to communicate through movement, improvisation, and pantomime games.
Systems of the Body: Movement and Choreography Basic systems and organs of the body are explained through movement. From ArtsEdge
Shakespeare Stealer Four-lesson unit centers around the play The Shakespeare Stealer. From ArtsEdge
Into the Woods, Jr. Grimm Brothers' Book of Tales and Stephen Sondheims musical Into the Woods to help students create their own musical versions of Grimm's tales. From ArtsEdge
Clowning 101 Students learn about different types of clown characters, then create an original character and develop a skit. From ArtsEdge
Brothers of the Knight Uses Brothers of the Knight, and the musical of the same name by Debbie Allen and James Ingram, to explore topics as diverse as choreography, songwriting and fashion design. From ArtsEdge
Atomic and Molecular Structure Students will use physical science knowledge to create movement patterns that simulate the movement of atoms and molecules. From ArtsEdge
Cheerful Hearts and Willing Feet Students to explore the methods Louisa May Alcott uses to develop characterization in Little Women.
If the Shoe Fits Students research the history of shoes and recreate dance movements from a specific time period.