CDE Arts Education Curriculum

CDE ARTS EDUCATION CURRICULUM

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.

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.

This book has 21 different exercises for focus time.

LESSON PLANNING RESOURCES
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PBS Media Learning

Kennedy Center For The Arts

Learning for Justice

WARM UPS FOR PRE-K THROUGH 2ND
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Spelling Dance Warm Up

Songs and Stretch Warm Up

FOCUS TIME
Books with lessons and discussions
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BOOKS WITH FIVE TO TEN SESSION UNIT PLANS
Books for grades PreK-2
These books combine theater, dance, musicality and some visual art
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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES AND LESSONS
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Breathing Exercises

Bend, Breath, Balance & Focus Activities

BRIDGING ACTIVITIES & DISCUSSION BOOKS
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Action Alphabet: 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 ONE TO FIVE SESSION UNIT PLANS
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BOOKS WITH SCRIPTS ADAPTED FOR A PLAY
2nd Grade and Up Some of these stories contain both movement and acting
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LESSON PLANNING UNITS
INCORPORATES DANCE, THEATRE, AND VISUAL ART

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Superheroes Power Point: 2nd Grade and up- you can take different elements according to grade level

Famous superheroes
Observations
How do superheroes move
Powers vs elements
Onomatopoeia
Story: Even superheroes have bad days
Story: Rules of Being a Superhero
Create a logo

Theater
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DANCE HISTORY AND DANCE-MAKING: 3rd GRADE AND UP
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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

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