Body Movement
| Objective: | Students will demonstrate their awareness of body movement by performing an observation presentation. |
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| Subject: | Movement & Pantomime |
| Class Level: | Beginning |
| Main Concepts: | Body Language, Facial Expressions, Gestures, How Movement is Affected by Different Circumstances and Elements |
| National Standards: | CONTENT STANDARD 1: Script writing by improvising, writing, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history. CONTENT STANDARD 2: Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions.
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| Author: | Landon Taylor |
Lesson Plans
Students will demonstrate their understanding of how the body moves by successfully completing a basic anatomy quiz.
Students will demonstrate their ability to observe and mimic movement by successfully mirroring another student’s movement.
Students will demonstrate their ability to pick up on and understand gestures and facial expressions by performing a silent skit.
Students will demonstrate their understanding of body language and posture by being able to identify how a person is feeling based on their body language.
Students will demonstrate their ability to move as if they were a different age by being able to identify what age-range each peer is acting out.
Students will demonstrate their ability to move with props by incorporating a prop into their movement around the classroom.
Students will demonstrate their understanding of how music influences movement by choreographing thirty seconds of a dance to a selected song.
Students will demonstrate their understanding of how movement is used every day by completing a report of another’s observed movement and presenting their observations in class.