Arts, Care & Connection Learning Module Library

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Dance Your Feelings with Lindsi Kay

Students will learn how to use dance movement to express their feelings responsibly. students will identify emotions, and how they can use movement qualities like tempo and speed to release their feelings through dance.

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Dance Your Ideas and Feelings with Subashini Ganesan

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Dancing On The Beat with Mayela Poareo Davidson

Students will learn what it means to keep a beat, and then, what it feels like to stay on or off the beat.

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Del Corazón al Escenario with Valentina Ortiz

Students will explore human emotions and learn how different individuals or characters can respond differently to the same event. Through exercises like body isolation and facial movements, they’ll develop awareness of their body’s position and movement.

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Different Ways to Communicate with Rikki Jo Hickey

Students will be introduced to theatrical improvisation based on Viola Spolin’s Improvisation for the Theatre and Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed methodologies combined with classic literature and influenced by The Happy Child; Conscious Discipline; and Mental Health First Aid training.

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Dramatic Structure: Action and Consequence with Francisco Garcia

Students will be intorduced to the use of dramatic structure in theatre and how it can be used to create a story.

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Drawings Using One Line DIBUJOS DE UNA SOLA LÍNEA with Christian Barrios

Students will create drawings using a single continuous line, focusing on visual engagement and following the line to develop an image or creature.

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Elements of Design with Julia Cuppy

Students will use elements of design to identify characteristics in found objects in their classroom.

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Embodied Storytelling with Ki Ridenour-Starnes

Students will be introduced to an adaptation of a Southwestern/Southeastern indigenous story and embody the characters they learn about.

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Emotion Dance with Nicole McCall

Students will create a dance improvisation using that expresses how they feel when they are doing an activity that brings them joy. As a part of this lesson students will deepen their self awareness, explore DANCE MOVES AND ENERGY as creative tools, and create an improvisation expressing different kinds of feelings.

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Express your style! with Ariadne Grace

Students will learn how flow, gesture and isolation can help their bodies express their feelings to others. They will celebrate and express their unique individuality and ability to connect with others, and then see how their own individuality makes the ‘whole’ more beautiful, affirming their sense of belonging.

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Express Yourself with Animal Songs with Red Yarn (Andy Furgeson)

Students will identify their mood, choose a related animal, and then compose simple animal songs with original lyrics and rhythms that reflect their mood & their animal’s behavior. With partners, students will share their compositions and reflect upon how their feelings guided their creative choices, and how it felt to create.

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Expressing Feelings Through Songwriting with Melinda Martinez

Students will use lyric templates to create their own collaborative songs. While identifying feelings, and ways to express them, students will explore the use of words in music.

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Folklore Dance with Luciana Proaño

Starting with an individual seed movement, students will collaborate to create a sequence of movements and a full choreography to demonstrate their class culture.

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Gesture Poems with Speaking Out Collective (Tessa Henderson and Laura Hill)

Students will be introduced to gesture as a theatre tool and how to work collaboratively in group settings. Students will explore the use of gestures to express emotion and personal identity and observe and respond to the work of their peers.

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Ghanaian Drumming with Alex Addy

Students will explore the cultural background of Ghanaian drumming and compose their own drum rhythm to express their emotions, uniting as a drumming classroom community.

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Hawaiian Hula with Lisa Chang

Students will learn that being taught Hawaiian hula dance is not just learning a dance form but will be learning about the Hawaiian language and culture.

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I Am Oregon with Crystal Meneses

Students will use observation of nature, self-expression, and empathy to create a poem or song and reflect on that process as part of a larger project that contributes to social change.

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I can make a song! with Mo Phillips

Students will learn about patterns in art and in nature, and then create patterns themselves using their voices and/or their bodies. Throughout the lesson students will be creating patterns around both their present state of mind, and how they see themselves.

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Image Theatre with Jaese Lecuyer

Students will practice using physical expression as a way to create meaning, tell stories, engage in active listening, embrace curiousity, communicate their interpretations of the world around them and collaborate effectively to share ideas, thoughts and feelings.

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Inventions in Action with Heather Pearl

Students will learn to use their bodies as tools for acting through exercises and games. They will create characters (including objects) and use them in a scene showing an invention by a Black American. Students will be the audience for each other, developing observation skills and respect.

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Konbit Haitian Dance of Community with David Durosier

Students will develop the ability to coordinate dance movements with drum rhythms. Students will learn the value of collaboration, patience, and offering positive reinforcement to themselves and others.

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La música y las Emociones (Music & Emotions) with Victor Villegas

In this lesson, students will learn some basic musical concepts, how music affects our emotions and how we can use music to self regulate. Students will also create their own rhythms and simple “songs” to express their emotions and share them with others.

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Let’s Be A Character with Nikki Flinn

Students will explore creating character through creative movement, sound, play, connection, and interview, focusing on details of physical, vocal, and emotional choices.

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Let’s Dance and Make Shapes with Nikki Flinn

Students will explore dance through observation, embodiment, and improvise elements from nature and shapes through movement, and connection.

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Let’s Make a Book with Roberta Lavadour

Students will use the movement of their bodies to create marks on a sheet of paper. Following step-by-step instructions, they will use that paper to create an 8-page booklet, then explore the deconstructed marks, building on them to define objects, animals, and/or other forms and coloring them in.

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Line of Action with Jen Hernandez

Students will use a variety of materials and techniques to create artwork that has meaning. Students will understand and can explain how the meaning of an artwork is connected to individuals and communities. I can describe my creative process and its connection to my community.

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Line of Place with Jen Hernandez

Students will use a variety of materials and techniques to create artwork that communicates an idea. They will choose an idea to communicate that is unique to them or one that is collective and relates to a larger community. Students will create a composition by choosing between diverse options. They will choose safe ways to use materials and choose materials to make art that best communicate their ideas. Their work will be informed by the place they are from, which holds many stories, cultures and histories.

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