Unit Overview:
Movement activities are an effective strategy to reach kinesthetic learners and weather is dynamic and movement rich phenomena. This 3-lesson unit gives teachers instruction to lead and facilitate movement and dance activities about atmospheric properties, cloud types, and the wind.
Lesson Overviews:
Above our heads nature directs an atmospheric drama unparalleled here on the ground. This lesson focuses on students using movement at different levels (low, medium and high) to understand and convey concepts such as layering, air-density and particles.
In this lesson, students use hand-sculptures and body shapes to create tableaus of the constantly changing shapes of clouds. Kinesthetic learners will benefit from this lesson relating movement and dance activities to atmospheric properties, cloud types, and the wind.
In this lesson, students are introduced to the heating and cooling, expanding and condensing properties of air masses. Students will use movement skills and dance to learn and communicate information about the patterns of wind cycles, and the attributes of the atmosphere.
