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TRANSPORTATION
Vehicles and Movement
Children will explore movement by moving like airplanes and boats.
Lesson Objective
Children will explore movement by moving like different vehicles used for transportation, such as airplanes and boats.
Art
What You'll Need
- Large space – enough for children to move safely without touching each other
- Music – any movement music (see Lesson Tips for suggestions)
- Audio device – for playing music
- Rubber spots – 1 per child (see Lesson Tips)
- Drum
- Tambourine
- Chart paper
- Marker
What To Do
Note: Before beginning the lesson, place a rubber spot on the floor for each child, making sure they have plenty of space for movement (see Lesson Tips).
- Ask the children to tell you some of the vehicles they have traveled in, and record them on the chart paper.
- Compare the movements of the different vehicles and how they get people from place to place.
- Tell the children they will be pretending to move like some of the different vehicles on the list.
- Discuss the important rules of dance lessons (see Lesson Tips), and have the children stand up and perform the steps of the warm-up (see Lesson Tips).
- Have the children stand on their “home” spots.
- Demonstrate the airplane position by lying on your stomach with arms and legs outstretched, and the “take-off” position by lifting your arms and legs off the ground; have the children follow along.
- Tell the children that the drum is the signal for “take-off” position and the tambourine is the signal for them to stand up and move around the room on tiptoe with their arms outstretched, alternating left and right diagonals to mimic the wings of a plane.
- Cue the music (see Lesson Tips), and repeat the patterns of “take-off” and moving around the room. When the music stops, children will return to their home spots.
- Change the music for moving like boats (see Lesson Tips).
- For moving like boats, pair up the children sitting with their feet together and holding hands. They will row the boat by rocking back and forth to the beat of the music.
- Discuss how moving like an airplane is different from moving like a boat.
- Wrap up the session with some cool-down movements. These can be any type of slow, calming movements.
Resources
Home School Resources
Home educators: use these printable lesson PDFs to teach this lesson to your home schoolers. They're available in English and Spanish.
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- There are currently no Common Core Standards for pre-k, but these lessons are aligned as closely as possible to capture the requirements and meet the goals of Common Core Standards. However, these lessons were neither reviewed or approved by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices or the Council of Chief State School Officers, which together are the owners and developers of the Common Core State Standards.
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