"Early cultivation of the imagination and critical thinking skills initiate a life long quest for learning, curiosity and social and civic engagement.
For at-risk youth, these skills are particularly beneficial."
Training Videos
| cde_arts_education_program_guidelines_reference_and_curriculum.pdf |
Resources for Teaching Artists
PDF' quick reads for teaching artists and go to guides
Levels of dance in early childhood
- Rhythmic Development
- Locomotor Movement and Rhythmic Basis- (includes the examples skip, hop, gallop, etc)
- Traditional Dance Steps
.The fundamental skills contain the key learning guides for CDE' arts education programs.
Our assessments are based off of these skills.
Our assessments are based off of these skills.
Owned by CDE- indispensable guide to getting young people on stage and helping them create their own shows. For teachers, for parents, for budding actors, emerging crew, and incipient directors—this is the book that shows how to get a production up and running...and have fun in the process. Clear and accessible, Kids Take the Stage outlines a systematic approach to staging, complete with basic lessons in acting, relaxation and trust-building exercises, and improvisations.
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Owned by CDE- this book bring mindfulness, social and emotional learning (SEL), and the arts into lesson plans through storytelling and fun games, this book offers a complete course that helps kids identify and talk about their feelings, self-regulate and self-soothe when stressed, and learn from easy mindfulness practices.
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Lesson Planning Resources
PBS Media Learning- contains videos and lesson plans on all different subjects and ages
-all videos are approved for the classroom
-all videos are approved for the classroom
Kennedy Center For The Arts- contains videos and lesson plan for all ages
-all videos are approved for the classroom
-all videos are approved for the classroom
Learning for Justice- contains videos and lesson plans for all ages that brings social Justice into the classroom
-all videos are approved for the classroom
-all videos are approved for the classroom
Warm ups for Pre-K-2nd
Focus Time Activities
Books with lessons and discussions
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Collection of stories for all ages
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Bridging Activities & Discussion Books
Power Points:
- Action Alphabet: good for PreK-3rd (a-airplane, b-bow, etc
- Movement Alphabet: 3rd and up- uses dance vocabulary
- Laban Basic Movement: 3rd and up
Literacy Bridging Activities
- show a word card and all or few or one students moved
- have students create a movement gesture to the word card, put them together to make a dance
- after students create a gesture movement, hold up card and see if they remember what it was
- create a story to the word cards
- draw a picture to the word card
Math Dancing: bridging activities or lessons to build from
- Symmetry/asymmetry
- Fractions
- Parallel/Diagonal
- Graphs
- Addition/Subtraction
- Shapes and Letters
Books with five to ten session unit plans
Books for grades PreK-2
-these books combine theater, dance, musicality and some visual art
-these books combine theater, dance, musicality and some visual art
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Books with one to five session unit plans
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Raspberries for PreK-2 |
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Books With Scripts Adapted For A Play
-grade level is 2nd and up
-Some of these stories contain both movement and acting
-grade level is 2nd and up
-Some of these stories contain both movement and acting
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Books for 3rd and up
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Papalotzin and the Monarchs: A Bilingual Border Tale”
-play and movement adaptation 
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Lesson Planning Units
-incorporates dance, theater, visual art
Superheroes Power Point: grade levels-2nd and up- you can take different elements according to grade level
Theater
Dance History and Dancemaking- Grades 3 and up
10 Week Unit covering the following artists
- Merce Cunningham & Chance Operations
- Martha Graham & Narrative
- Twyla Tharp & Recurring Theme/ Broken Form
- Alvin Ailey & Suite (ABC)/ Narrative (Culture, Heritage)
- Bill “Bojangles” Robinson & Rhythm
5-10 week Unit Dance: Choreography and Improvising
- Grade level: 4th and up- good for introduction to dance with kids who never had dance
- Includes survey questions and post evaluations
- Take this and add in the styles of dance and music the students are interested in Show videos of the examples
Elements of Dance Chart: Body-Action-Space-Time-Energy
| elementsofdance_b-w.pdf |
Choreography Techniques and Vocabulary
| dance_composition_and_choreography_unit.pdf |
Cultural Dance Lesson Plans
Introduction to Dances from India- videos and resources
Music- Lessons, Music and Books
Musical Instrument Freeze and Play - PreK-3rd (depending on knowledge level of music)
power point with demonstrations of each instrument and freeze game at the end
good for bridging or a unit about music
power point with demonstrations of each instrument and freeze game at the end
good for bridging or a unit about music
Simple Songs to teach PreK-2nd
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Carnival of the Animals- movement and music
Grades 2nd and up- this is a multilevel lesson plan
Counting song for PreK-2nd- includes videos for learning
This will be an ongoing list of song to use in the classroom that incorporates math, dance, music and language
Listen and Move Playlist-for PreK-2nd
This list will be updated ongoing
Barefoot Books Sing-a-long
This includes some of the books we use plus other songs