What would you do if you got an extra day every week? Partners share some information about their routines and lives and write compositions about one another based on the information. Each partner tries to guess what the other person...

Students explore movement in dance routines. They observe movements and transform everyday gestures into choregraphy. Through activities, students develop improvisational skills. They evaluate and critique work.

Students, in groups, create original dances or aerobics routines.

First graders discuss how culture can be transmitted from generation to generation. In groups, they create a bust of themselves after viewing various artists artwork. They also develop their own dance routine and perform it in front of...

Why is visual literacy so important in understanding Maus? Introduce your class to basic elements of graphic novels with a game of pictionary. A list of 13 words are included, but you could potentially add some World War II-related...

High schoolers will love this geometrically exact ceramics project; they create a personalized clay box using the slab method and mathematical measurements. They utilize scoring and square construction and can decorate the boxes to...

Students develop an understanding of the animation process by working collaboratively to create an animated film. This instructional activity suggests using digital cameras, iMovie, Photoshop, and GarageBand.

In this grammar worksheet, students, working with a partner, mime a variety of thirty mimes back and forth silently to see if their partner can guess which one they are acting out.

Students investigate the tough economic times by discussing supply and demand.  In this economics lesson, students read a news article and identify specific examples of the oil crisis that has touched their lives.  Students...

Students explore music theory by discussing a classic song. In this musical notation lesson, students listen to the song "My Favorite Things" and discuss and share their personal tastes with the class. Students practice writing notes on...

Students investigate the musical concept of rhythm through the use of creating a beat. The beat must have a specific and purposeful rhythm. Student can then define the term of rhythm easier after performing the activity.

Students move their streamers using as many arm patterns as possible.

Students collect real data through listening, counting and timing jazz pieces.They use ratios, rates, and proportions to report collected data and demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of rhythm and tempo in music.

Students participate in a partner dance. In this dance lesson plan, students listen to the song "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride" and repeat dance steps according to the music.

Fifth graders wrote essays, interviewed family members, took photos of their activities, and tape recorded narration to accompany the photos.

Middle schoolers work in cooperative learning groups to create and perform a newscast about a European country. This geography-based technology lesson concludes with class presentations and student critiques.

Interesting site that explores the roots of comedy routines on radio. Examines major figures and their comedy/vaudeville on the airwaves through the century. Good resource site.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Richard Pryor, an American comedian and actor, who was one of the leading comics of the 1970s and '80s. His comedy routines drew on a variety of downtrodden urban characters, rendered with...