National Poetry Month: Idea and Movement Strategy Application

Strategy: Idea and MovementAudience: Students and families, teachersParticipants: This activity is for two or more people Instructions: Gestures are made with our fingers, hands, and arms and communicate a clear idea. Choose one line of a poem that you love. Read that line over and over and talk about it with a caregiver or a …

Pathways & Idea and Movement- Numerical Fluency

Topic: Numerical Fluency CLI Strategy: Idea and movement and Pathways Subject: Math TEKS: K.1, 1.1, 2.1,3,4 Grade: Lower Elementary Students will be able to: create movements to count by hundreds, tens, fives, and ones and then use these movements to figure out the distance between two numbers on a number line.Procedure: Idea and Movement - …

Idea and Movement: How-To

Basic instructions: Have participants find their own personal space around the room/carpet. Simultaneously, but in students’ individual spaces, students create a gesture or movement based on a prompt, word, or concept (give them 1 minute or so to create) Teacher can then highlight one student’s movement. Ask other students to describe what they see, to …