Adirondack Curriculum
Project -  Arts Forever Wild
NYS Content Area Standard
The Arts 1. Create, perform, participate in the arts
CDOS
ELA
Health, PE, Home & Careers
LOTE
MST
Social Studies
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Title: A Hike in the Adirondacks
Grade Level: 3-6th Grade
Author: Diane Sabourin, Peru CSD
Email: sabourdm@westelcom.com
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Adirondack Curriculum Content Area
___ Natural History
___ Human History
__X_ Culture & the Arts
___ Government & Civics
___ Economy
__X_ Health, Recreation & Life Skills |
Investigative Question or Issue: Using movement and
music, how can you demonstrate leisure activities common to the
Adirondacks?
Challenge:
Purpose:
Creative Movement: locomotor and non-locomotor
Materials: Recording: Rhythmically Moving CD 2. Track 14. "Soldier's
Joy"
- Find a place in the room, so that the group is well spread out.
- Start walking to the music and explore different floor patterns
(lines, circles, spirals, squares, etc.)
- A Section: Fix a floor pattern with 32 beats, repeat by doing it in
reverse so that you come "home" to your starting point after 64 beats.
- Add everyday movement (looking at watch, reading, tripping, sneezing,
stumbling, bird watching, photo opportunities, waving)
- B Section: Whole group is divided into smaller groups of 5 people who
stand close to each other at their starting point at their "home".
Brainstorm ideas of things that people can do in the Adirondacks. Every
group then chooses one activity that could be developed into 8 poses
(similar to taking eight photos one right after the other). In the
choreography, the shapes will be held for four beats (32 total). They
"jump" into position on the first beat for each pose, freeze and then
"junp" into the second pose.
- C Section: Find eight gestures to be performed in unison by the
entire group. Eah pose will be held for four beats (see above).
Structure:
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Introduction
(4 beats)
- (A) Fixed floor
pattern
(64 beats)
- (B) Group "pictures"/groups 1 &
2 (32
beats)
- (C ) Unison
gestures
(32 beats)
- (A') Fixed floor
pattern
(64 beats)
- (B' ) Group "pictures" /groups
3&4 (32
beats)
- (C') Unison
gestures
(32 beats)
- (A") Fixed floor
pattern
(64 beats)
- (B") Group "pictures" /all
groups
(32 beats)
- (C") Unison
gestures
(32 beats)
- (A"') Fixed floor
pattern
(64 beats)
- Freeze
Photos
of Students involved in Activities
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Quality Standards:
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Challenge will
be ready at the end of thirty-five minutes
- Group "pantomime" should be clear to other groups/audience
- Motions are clear and crisp
- You are able to walk a beat
- You create a fixed floor pattern
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Adapted for the Adirondack
Curriculum Project from
the work of Education By Design TM and Leading EDGE, LLC
©ACP 2002
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