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Body Movement

Objective: Students will demonstrate their awareness of body movement by performing an observation presentation.
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.

 

Author: Landon Taylor

Lesson Plans

Lesson 1: What is your body doing when you move?

Students will demonstrate their understanding of how the body moves by successfully completing a basic anatomy quiz.

Lesson 2: Mirroring Movement

Students will demonstrate their ability to observe and mimic movement by successfully mirroring another student’s movement.

Lesson 3: Gestures/Facial Expressions

Students will demonstrate their ability to pick up on and understand gestures and facial expressions by performing a silent skit.

Lesson 4: Body Language/Posture

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.

Lesson 5: How different ages move

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.

Lesson 6: Movement with Props

Students will demonstrate their ability to move with props by incorporating a prop into their movement around the classroom.

Lesson 7: Movement with Music

Students will demonstrate their understanding of how music influences movement by choreographing thirty seconds of a dance to a selected song.

Lesson 8: Presentation of Another’s Observed Movements

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.