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. |
| The Eyam Plague | Social Studies/Drama | Through a process drama, the students will reconstruct the events of the black plague in the city of Eyam, England in the year 1665. |
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. |