Curricula

Dance

English: Video Enhanced

• Shape (text version)
• Space: Directions (text version)
• Space: Levels (text version)
• Space: Self and General (text version)
• Time: Tempo and Beat (text version)

Spanish

• Shape
• Space: Directions
• Space: Levels
• Space: Self and General
• Time: Tempo and Beat

Theater

English: Video Enhanced

• Blending Body and Voice (text version)
• Creating Tableau (text version)
• Expressive Body (text version)
• Expressive Voice (text version)

Spanish

• Blending Body and Voice
• Creating Tableau
• Expressive Body
• Expressive Voice

Visual Arts

English: Video Enhanced

• Color Mixing and Relationships (text version)
• Depth through Overlapping Shapes (text version)
• Descriptive Line (text version)
• Study in Line Direction (text version)
• Three-dimensional Form and Texture (text version)

Spanish

• Color Mixing and Relationships
• Depth through Overlapping Shapes
• Descriptive Line
• Study in Line Direction
• Three-dimensional Form and Texture

Lesson Images (.zip)

Dance

English: Video Enhanced

Click here to download STEAM BrainDance by Debbie Gilbert

• Pattern (text version)
• Sequence (text version)
• Sequence: Most Important Events Dance (text version)
• Structure (text version)
• Symmetry (text version)

Spanish

• Pattern
• Sequence
• Sequence: Most Important Events Dance
• Structure
• Symmetry

Theater

English: Video Enhanced

• Clues to a Character through Text (text version)
• Designing and Building Statues (text version)
• Modify My Action (text version)
• Scientific Sequence Slide Show (text version)
• Story Structure Slide Show (text version)
• The Story Volcano (text version)

Spanish

• Clues to a Character through Text
• Designing and Building Statues
• Modify My Action
• Scientific Sequence Slide Show
• Story Structure Slide Show
• The Story Volcano

Visual Arts

English: Video Enhanced

• Cycles (text version)
• Expressing Character and Action through Gesture Drawing (text version)
• Observation Process (text version)
• Pivotal Images: Beginning, Middle, End (text version)
• Radial Symmetry (text version)
• Sculpture in Balance (text version)
• Symmetry with Shapes (text version)

Spanish

• Cycles
• Observation Process
• Sculpture in Balance
• Symmetry with Shapes

Lesson Images (.zip)

Dance

• Cultural Dance Map
• Dancing our Connections

Theater

• Sense of Self: The Three Act Play
• We the People: The Power of Collective Action

Visual Arts

• Headlines: Portraits of Heroes and Sheroes
• Motherboard Assemblages: Contrast in Technology
• Mapping Without Borders: Coloring Outside the Lines
• Teamwork Makes our Dream Work; Together We Are Mighty

Dance

• Save Our Seagulls (K/1) (text version)
• Save the Salmon! (2) (text version)
• Save a Habitat, Save an Animal (2/3) (text version)
• Be Informed, Be Prepared (4/5) (text version)
• Cookie Dance (5) (text version)

Theater

• Building a Puppet Theater (K) (text version)
• Equality, Sharing, and Fairness (K/1) (text version)
• PAWS, the MOVIE (2) (text version)
• Natural Disasters: What Causes Them and How Can We Be Prepared? (2/3) (text version)
• Organizing Shared Playground Equipment (3) (text version)
• Oregon Trail Narrative (4/5) (text version)
• The Appeal of Food (4/5) (text version)

Visual Arts

• Trash Bashers (K/1) (text version)
• What Clouds Tell Us About the Weather (K/1) (text version)
• Whale Watch (1) (text version)
• Bee Friendly (2/3) (text version)
• Then and Now- Celebrating Local History of Indigenous People (3) (text version)
• Not Everything Is What it Appears to Be (4) (text version)
• Not Everything is What it Appears to Be (4/5) (text version)

Dance: Video Enhanced

Click here to download Math Dances CD by Debbie Gilbert (Grades PreK-5)

Click here to download Math Dances for Middle School CD by Debbie Gilbert (Grades 6-8)

• PreKindergarten
  • Geometric Stretchy Dance (text version)
• Kindergarten
  • 1 Equivalent Numbers and Movements (text version)
  • 2 Constructing and Deconstructing Dancing Puzzle Shapes (text version)
  • 3 Identifying, Describing, and Dancing Shapes (text version)
• 1st Grade
  • 1 Parts of the Whole: A Mirror Dance (text version)
  • 2 Greater Than, Less Than, and Equal To Dance (text version)
  • 3 Taller & Shorter Movements, Longer & Shorter Movements (text version)
• 2nd Grade
  • 1 Place Value Moves (text version)
  • 2 Word Problem Choreography (text version)
  • 3 Triangle, Quadrilateral, Pentagon, and Hexagon Dances (text version)
• 3rd Grade
  • 1 Story Problem Dance: Sets of Eight (text version)
  • 2 Fractional Choreography (text version)
  • 3 Choreographing the Area and Perimeter (text version)
• 4th Grade
  • 1 Moving Number Patterns: Finding the Rule (text version)
  • 2 Angular Shapelines (text version)
  • 3 Fractions in Action (text version)
• 5th Grade
  • 1 Variables in Motion (text version)
  • 2 Classifying Quadrilaterals Dance (text version)
  • 3 Fraction Problems Dances
• 6th Grade
  • 1 Ratios in Jai Ho (text version)
  • 2 Number Line Dance (text version)
  • 3 Single Variable Equation Problem Dances (text version)
• 7th Grade
  • 1 Proportions in Saman (text version)
  • 2 Finding Zero on a Number Line Dance (text version)
  • 3 Inequalities and Variables Problem Dance (text version)
• 8th Grade
  • 1 Functions and Choreographic Devices with the Gumboot Dance (text version)
  • 2 Hand Jive Squared and Cubed (text version)
  • 3 Similarity Transformation Dance (text version)

Theater

• Pre-Kindergarten
  • Spatial Relationships in Tableau (text version)

Visual Arts (.zip packages with lesson images)

• Pre-Kindergarten
  • The Art of Numbers (text version)
    • The Art of Numbers additional bingo cards
• Kindergarten
  • 1 Counting in Composition: Groups of 10 (text version)
  • 2 Building with Shapes
  • 3 Equations in Collage Quilts (text version)
    • 3 Equations in Collage Quilts Grid
• 1st Grade
  • 1 Line Direction and Length (text version)
  • 2 Balancing Shapes: Parts and Wholes (text version)
  • 3 Stamping Equations (text version)
• 2nd Grade
  • 1 Collage Arrays: Adding up Shapes (text version)
  • 2 Place Value: 100s, 10s, and 1s in Composition (text version)
    • 2 Place Value Composition 1/2″ Grid for transparency
    • 2 Place Value Composition 10×10 cm Grid
  • 3 Geometric Shapes in Action
• 3rd Grade
  • 1 Fractions in Informal Balance (text version)
  • 2 Balancing Positive and Negative Space: Area Animals (text version)
  • 3 Multiplication in Symmetrical Assemblages (text version)
• 4th Grade
  • 1 Discovering Number Patterns (text version)
  • 2 Translucent Collage- Comparing Fractions (text version)
    • 2 Translucent Collage- Comparing Fractions 2 Translucent Collage 1″ graph for transparency
  • 3 Depth in Space- Angles, Lines, and Values (text version)
• 5th Grade
  • 1 Mobiles Balancing Equations (text version)
  • 2 Composing with Fractions (text version)
    • 2 Composing with Fractions 1/2″ Grid for transparency
  • 3 Polygons in Architectural Design (text version)
• 6th Grade
  • 1 Mythical Math Characters: Proportion Portraits (text version)
  • 2 Fractions of Fractions: Translucent Circle Collages (text version)
  • 3 Picturing Equations: Missing Variable Stories (text version)
• 7th Grade
  • 1 Math Action Figures: Human Body Proportion (text version)
  • 2 Visualizing Operations: Number Line Collage (text version)
  • 3 Equivalent Expressions for Compositions in Color (text version)
• 8th Grade
  • 1 Expressing Exponential Relationships (text version)
  • 2 Scaling Up Shapes for Sculpture (text version)
  • 3 Mathematical Mandalas (text version)

Dance

Click here to download Reading Dances CD by Debbie Gilbert

• Kindergarten
  • First, Then, and Finally Dance (text version)
• 1st Grade
  • Beginning, Problem, Solution Dance (text version)
• 2nd Grade
  • Dancing Similarities in Folktales (text version)
• 3rd Grade
  • Prequel and Sequel Dances (text version)
• 4th Grade
  • Six Important Events Dance (text version)
• 5th Grade
  • Accumulation Sequence Dances (text version)

Theater

• Kindergarten
  • K Creating Emotional Connections to a Character (text version)
• 1st Grade
  • Applying Background Knowledge to a Character (text version)
• 2nd Grade
  • Asking Questions and Predicting Outcomes (text version)
• 3rd Grade
  • Character Maps: Using Evidence and Inference (text version)
• 4th Grade
  • Character Objective: Overcoming Obstacles (text version)
• 5th Grade
  • Synthesis and Summary: The Story Volcano (text version)

 Visual Arts

• Kindergarten
  • Imagining Place: Using Prior Knowledge to Create Setting (text version)
• 1st Grade
  • Describing Place: Using Sense Memory to Add Texture to Setting (text version)
• 2nd Grade
  • Imagining Place: Using Questions to Conjure Up Setting (text version)
• 3rd Grade
  • Inferring Place: Mining Clues from the Text and Yourself (text version)
• 4th Grade
  • Focal Points: Emphasizing Key Features of Setting (text version)
• 5th Grade
  • Building an Interpretation of Place (text version)

Dance

Click here to download Writing Dances by Debbie Gilbert

• Kindergarten
  • 1 Verbs: Dancing Actions (text version)
  • 2 Dancing Opposites (Size) (text version)
  • 3 Prepositional Relationship Dance 3 Prepositional Relationship Dance 9-11-13 AO (text version)
• 1st Grade
  • 1 Verbs – More Dancing Actions (text version)
  • 2 Dancing Opposites (Level, Tempo) (text version)
  • 3 Prepositional Relationship Dance with Energy (text version)
• 2nd Grade
  • 1 Two Vivid Verbs Dance (text version)
  • 2 Describing Mirror Dances (Level) (text version)
  • 3 Smooth and Sharp Class Cinquain Dance (text version)
• 3rd Grade
  • 1 Dancing Three Vivid Verbs (text version)
  • 2 Describing Mirror Dances (text version)
  • 3 Smooth and Sharp Cinquain Dances (text version)
• 4th Grade
  • 1 Describing Shadow Dances (text version)
  • 2 Similes with Energy (text version)
  • 3 Rhythmical Syllables (text version)
• 5th Grade
  • 1 Describing Shadow Rhombi (text version)
  • 2 Metaphors with Energy (text version)
  • 3 Rhythm Choreography (text version)

Theater

• Kindergarten
  • 1 Super Expressive Body (text version)
  • 2 Finding Your Big Voice (text version)
  • 3 Creating Expressive Animals (text version)
• 1st Grade
  • 1 The Super Expressive Body – Expressing Emotions (text version)
  • 2 The Super Expressive Body – Emotional Attributes (text version)
  • 3 Expressive Animals with Voice (text version)
• 2nd Grade
  • 1 The Super Expressive Body – Using Actions (text version)
  • 2 The Super Expressive Voice – Speaking with Emotion (text version)
  • 3 Creating a Character (text version)
• 3rd Grade
  • 1 The Super Expressive Body – Actions and Setting (text version)
  • 2 Tongue Twisting Diction (text version)
  • 3 Using Actions to Communicate Characters (text version)
• 4th Grade
  • 1 Character Attributes (text version)
  • 2 Exaggerated Voice (text version)
  • 3 Creating Dialogue for Characters (text version)
• 5th Grade
  • 1 The Super Expressive Body – Actions and Character (text version)
  • 2 The Emotional Voice (text version)
  • 3 Character Objective and Action (text version)
• 6th Grade
  • 1 Persuasive Physical Actions and Objectives (text version)
  • 2 Persuasive Actions with Vocal Expression (text version)
  • 3 Improvised Arguments (text version)
• 7th Grade
  • 1 Cause and Effect Conflict Tableaux (text version)
  • 2 Compare and Contrast…Pass the Paper Playwriting (text version)
  • 3 Revising and Rewriting Dialogue in Tableaux (text version)
• 8th Grade
  • 1 Narrative Tableaux (text version)
  • 2 Narrative Dialogue (text version)
  • 3 Narrative in Action (text version)

Visual Arts

• Kindergarten
  • 1 Energetic Lines (text version)
  • 2 Lines that Stand Still (text version)
  • 3 Lines to Touch (text version)
• 1st Grade
  • 1 Line Qualities (text version)
  • 2 Calm Lines (text version)
  • 3 Implied Textures (text version)
• 2nd Grade
  • 1 Active Lines (text version)
  • 2 Organic Shapes in Space (text version)
  • 3 Lines Show Textures (text version)
• 3rd Grade
  • 1 Moving Lines (text version)
  • 2 Still Life Shapes in Space (text version)
  • 3 Lines and What They Express (text version)
• 4th Grade
  • 1 Contour Lines (text version)
  • 2 Calligraphic Lines (text version)
  • 3 Complementary Colors (text version)
• 5th Grade
  • 1 Value in Shading (text version)
  • 2 Value in Line (text version)
  • 3 Monochromatic Colors (text version)

• 6th Grade
  • Anibots- 2-D Designs to 3-D Figures (text version)
  • Anibots- Polyhedra Patterns and Parts (text version)
  • Anibots- Construction and Engineering (text version)
  • Anibots- Custom Detailing 5 Anibots- Upgrade and Review (text version)
  • Anibot Production Manual (text version)
• 7th Grade
  • Kites- Calculations and Designs, Enlarging Scale Part 1 (text version)
  • Kites- Patterns and Surface Decoration, Enlarging Scale Part 2 (text version)
  • Kites- Balance and Contrast, Shapes and Colors (text version)
  • Kites- Craftsmanship and Construction (text version)
  • Miniature Kites- Reducing Scale (text version)
  • My Kite Journal (text version)
• 8th Grade
  • One-point Perspective, Buildings in Cities (text version)
  • Transformations- Building Designs (text version)
  • Combining Mathematical Figures- City Planning (text version)
  • Depth through Use of Light and Color (text version)
  • Coordinate Planes, Vertex, and Perspective, City in Motion (text version)
  • Architecture Data Sheet Workbook (text version)

Dance and Math Infusion

Click here to download Geometry Dances CD by Debbie Gilbert

• 3rd Grade
  • Stretchy Shapes (text version)
  • Copying Stretchy Shapes (text version)
  • Attributes and Congruence -Shape Choreography (text version)
• 4th Grade
  • Lines of Symmetry – Mirror Dance (text version)
  • Symmetrical Pathway Maps (text version)
  • Dancing Slides and Flips (text version)
• 5th Grade
  • Rhombus Shadowing (text version)
  • Angles-Shapelines (text version)
  • Transformation Dances (text version)

Theater and Writing Infusion

• 3rd Grade
  • Modify My Action (text version)
  • Character Attributes in Writing (text version)
  • The Set-Up – Creating Dramatic Introductions (text version)
  • Developing the Beginning, Middle and End of a Story (text version)
• 4th Grade
  • Building Original Narratives (text version)
  • Creating Transitions (text version)
• 5th Grade
  • Precise Vocabulary (text version)
  • Dramatic Outlines (text version)
  • Staged Narratives (text version)

Visual Arts and Math Infusion

• 3rd Grade
  • Congruency – Match Shapes in Compositions (text version)
  • Shapes are Everywhere (text version)
  • Polygons in Symmetry – Animal Inventions (text version)
• 4th Grade
  • Parallel and Perpendicular Lines – Unity and Variety (text version)
  • Polygons in Symmetry – Architectural Entry Design (text version)
  • Transformation – Architectural Elevations (text version)
• 5th Grade
  • Reflections – Balancing Line, Shape and Color (text version)
  • Mapping Angles from Above (text version)
  • Locations and Transformations – Polygon Collages (text version)

These lessons are focused towards Pre-Kindergarden students. Additional Kindergarten – Second Grade lessons can be found in the Arts & Math Infusion, Arts & Reading Infusion, and Arts & Writing Infusion curricula.

Arts Foundations

Dance

Click here to download “Five Senses” by Debbie Gilbert

• Body Shapes and Mirroring: A Day at the Shape Museum (text version)
• Cha Cha Children (text version)
• Dancing Buildings (text version)
• Shadow Dance (text version)

Theater

• Our Body is a Structure (text version)

Visual Arts

• Making Lines into Shapes (text version)

Arts Infusion

Dance

Click here to download “Five Senses” by Debbie Gilbert

• Dance and Descriptive Words
• Dancing Animal Actions
• Dancing Water: Light and Strong
• Geometric Shapes in Motion and Position
• Geometric Stretchy Dance
• I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
• Robot Action Dance
• Sounds Like Dance: Phonological Awareness
• The Beat Goes On

Theater

• Acting a Story
• Acting Out Character and Emotion
• Acting Out Sequence of Daily Events
• Acting Out Vocabulary
• Animal Bodies and Movement
• Body and Shapes
• Character Voices
• Energy and Force
• Finding Emotions through Music
• Inference in Tableau
• Spatial Relationships in Tableau
• Using Body to Express Character and Emotion

Visual Arts

• A Line Can Tell a Story
• Compositions from Position Words
• Expressing Emotions through Words and Faces
• Geometric Shape Assemblage
• Line Compositions and Comparisons
• Lines Show Emotions
• Moving Lines
• Repetition in Text and Illustration
• Shape Compositions
• The Art of Numbers
  • The Art of Numbers: Additional Bingo Cards
• Warm and Cool Sunshades

• Kindergarten
  • 1 Thick and Thin Lines (text version)
  • 2 Different Kinds of Lines (text version)
  • 3 Rough and Smooth Lines (text version)
  • 4 Lines to Touch (text version)
  • 5 Lines Outline Shapes (text version)
  • 6 Geometric Shapes (text version)
• 1st Grade
  • 1 Lines (text version)
  • 2 Calm Lines (text version)
  • 3 Lines Show Movement (text version)
  • 4 Shapes Are Everywhere (text version)
  • 5 Still Life Shapes (text version)
  • 6 Balance (Self-Portraits) (text version)
• 2nd Grade
  • 1 Lines Have Names (text version)
  • 2 Lines Can Show Feelings (text version)
  • 3 Active Lines (text version)
  • 4 Free-form Shapes (text version)
  • 5 Face Forms (text version)
  • 6 Objects in Space (text version)
• 3rd Grade
  • 1 Lines and What They Express (text version)
  • 2 Line Variation (text version)
  • 3 Shapes (text version)
  • 4 Shapes All Around Us (text version)
  • 5 Relief Sculpture (text version)
  • 6 Positive and Negative Space (text version)
• 4th Grade
  • 1 Gesture Drawing (text version)
  • 2 Contour Lines (text version)
  • 3 Flowing Lines (text version)
  • 4 Forms in Masks (text version)
  • 5 Radial Balance (text version)
  • 6 Perspective (text version)
• 5th Grade
  • 1 Value in Shading (text version)
  • 2 Value in Line (text version)
  • 3 Value Contrast (text version)
  • 4 Monochromatic Colors (text version)
  • 5 Linear Perspective (text version)
  • 6 Botanical Illustration (text version)

Dance

• Conflict Resolution through Dance
• Creating a Beginning, Problem, Solution Dance from Actions and Emotions
• Exploring Emotions with Tight and Loose Energy
• Mood Meter Dance
• Self-Management through Dance

Theater

• Acting Out Emotions with Mood Meter
• Acting Out the Meta-moment
• Expressing Emotional Range
• Focus and Mindfulness
• How Emotions Affect What We Do
• Point of View-Developing Awareness, Empathy & Respect

Visual Arts

• Building Resilience- Turning Accidents into Intentions
• Emotion Words and Showing Our Changing Feelings
• Expressing Emotion through Calm and Energetic Lines
• Inferring Emotions: Mining Clues from the Text and Yourself
• Insider and Outsider Wearable Art
• Interior Landscapes
• Mindfulness and Finding Calm through Observational Drawing
• Moving Lines
• Using Emotional Memory to Add Texture to Setting

Presentations

• Social Emotional Learning and the Arts
• Trauma Informed Teaching through the Arts

• PreKindergarten – Enviro-Arts Elements: Creating and Learning through Reusing
• Kindergarten – EnviroFriends Reuse and Recycle
• 1st Grade – EnviroFlower Mandalas: Turning Trash into Treasure
• 2nd Grade – EnviroCreatures: Invent an Insect
• 3rd Grade – EnviroBots: Inventions to Help Save the Planet
• 4th Grade – EnviroStewards: Taking Action
• 5th Grade – Protecting Our Salmon: Superstars of the Northwest

ELA Dance

English

• Sequence: Most Important Events Dance (text version)
• Structure (text version)

Spanish

• Sequence: Most Important Events Dance
• Structure

Math Dance

English

• Ratios in Jai Ho (text version)
• Number Line Dances (text version)
• Single Variable Equation Problem Dances (text version)

Spanish

• Ratios in Jai Ho
• Number Line Dances
• Single Variable Equation Problem Dances

ELA Theater

English

• Creating Tableau (text version)
• Cause and Effect Conflict Tableaux (text version)
• Compare and Contrast: Pass the Paper Playwriting (text version)
• Revising and Rewriting Dialogue in Tableaux (text version)

Spanish

• Creating Tableau
• Cause and Effect Conflict Tableaux
• Compare and Contrast: Pass the Paper Playwriting
• Revising and Rewriting Dialogue in Tableaux

ELA Visual Arts

English

• Building an Interpretation of Place (text version)
• Focal Points: Emphasizing Key Features of Setting (text version)

Spanish

• Building an Interpretation of Place
• Focal Points: Emphasizing Key Features of Setting

Math Visual Arts

English

• Math Action Figures: Human Body Proportion (text version)
• Visualizing Operations: Number Line Collages (text version)
• Equivalent Expressions for Compositions in Color (text version)

Spanish

• Math Action Figures: Human Body Proportion
• Visualizing Operations: Number Line Collages
• Equivalent Expressions for Compositions in Color

Lesson Images (.zip)

Dance

English

• Proportions in Saman (text version)
• Dancing Persuasively (text version)

Spanish

• Proportions in Saman
• Dancing Persuasively

Theater

English

• Persuasive Physical Actions and Objectives (text version)
• Persuasive Actions with Vocal Expression (text version)
• Improvised Arguments (text version)

Spanish

• Persuasive Physical Actions and Objectives
• Persuasive Actions with Vocal Expression
• Improvised Arguments

Visual Arts

English

• The Colors and Shapes of Us: Our Identity is in Our Hands (text version)
• Math Action Figures: Human Body Proportion (text version)

Spanish

• The Colors and Shapes of Us: Our Identity is in Our Hands
• Math Action Figures: Human Body Proportion

Lesson Images (.zip)