Utah State Arts Core for 6th Grade
DANCE/MOVEMENT
| Title of Lesson | Core Subject | Comments |
| Heat Transfer | Science/Dance | In a 60-minute class 6th grade students will explore heat transfer by creating movement sequences based on locomotor steps and speed. |
| Ecosystems - Wolves in Yellowstone | Science/Dance | Through dance, students will learn about the impact the wolves have had on Yellowstone National Park |
DRAMA
| Title of Lesson | Core Subject | Comments |
| Ratios in Everyday Life | Math/Drama | Students will be able to write and simplify ratios using the notation of ratio language. They will act out part to part and part to whole ratios. |
| Literature in Tableau | Language Arts/Drama |
This lesson plan is a guide to recreating stories using a theatrical convention known as tableau. In this lesson, students will analyze the events, characters and setting of a story as they recreate the story in frozen images. |
| Greek City States: Sparta vs Athens | Social Studies/Drama |
Students will learn what life was like in the Greek City States of Sparta and Athens. |
| Finding Characters in Poetry | Language Arts/Drama |
Students will learn to find characters and emotions in poetry and will learn ways of demonstrating these. |
| CROW | Language Arts/Drama |
CROW stands for character, relationship, objective, and where. Students will learn to create unique characters and write dialogue that informs their audience about their characters. |
| Creating a Process Drama | Language Arts/ Social Studies/ Drama |
This is a “how to” instruction guide for teachers who would like to create their own process drama. |
| The Art of Storytelling | Language Arts/ Drama |
Students will be tasked with finding a story, creating a story map, learning the events of the story, practicing the story and retelling the story, using engagement techniques. This lesson plan will take several sessions to complete. |
| Mesopotamia Process Drama | Social Studies/ Drama |
Students will participate in a process drama to learn about the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia and how it has contributed to our world today. |
MUSIC
| Lost Lady Found | Language Arts/Music | Students will sing an English ballad while accompanying themselves on their ukuleles (eventually). They will analyze the text and infer details about the story. They will also compare the text to Percy Grainger’s instrumental version of the song to see if there are any correlations between the two versions. |
| Chinese Ribbon Dance | Social Studies/Music | In a 40 minute class, students will connect to the music of Chinese culture by performing the “Chinese Ribbon Dance” based on instrumentation in the pentatonic scale and movement with ribbons reflecting the mood of the music. |
VISUAL ARTS
| Title of Lesson | Core Subject | Comments |
| Perfect-Portraits | Language Arts/Visual Arts | Students will write an autobiography and will create a ceramic self portrait based on the work of current artist Kimmy Cantrell. Grades 2-6. |
| Google Doodles | All Core Subjects/Visual Art | This works great as a summative assessment, as a writing tool, or just for a fun art project. |
| Percent Pictures | Math/Visual Arts | Students will learn how to find the percent, fraction, and decimal form of different numbers that relate to a piece of art they create on a grid. |
| Color Wheel Portrait Mural | Social Studies/Visual Arts | Students will learn about the color wheel, how to draw a simple or detailed face (depending on the grade), and then will create a piece of a mural using one or two colors. |