You will find grade level lesson plans which correlate to the Utah State Core Curriculum in Dance/Movement, Drama, Music and Visual Arts.
Utah State Art Core for Kindergarten
| Title of Lesson | Core Subject Integration | Comments |
| I Love to Rhyme Lesson Plan | Language Arts/Dance | In two 30 minute lessons, students will learn to rhyme words as they perform dance to poetry. |
| 2D 3D What Do You See | Math/Dance | Students will learn geometric shapes through dance. |
| Plant Survival | Science/Dance | in two 30 minute lessons, students will learn the requirements for plant growth as they explore movement. |
| My Many Colored Days | Health/Language Arts/Dance | In a 45-‐minute class students will develop a deeper understanding of their emotions by exploring and creating a dance based on the book My Many Colored Days. |
| Flashlight | Language Arts/Dance |
In two 30 minute sessions, the students will understand the author’s overall message as they dance “night, nature, and art” (Boyd) with the use of a flashlight. |
DRAMA
| Title of Lesson | Core Subject Integration | Comments |
| What Do Living Things Need to Survive? | Science/Drama | Students will examine the needs of living things by comparing them to non-living things. They will also demonstrate forces that push and pull on an object. |
| Seasons and Weather - K-1 | Science/Drama | Students will learn about the need for different types of weather and associate the weather with seasons. |
| Jungle Drums | Language Arts/Social Studies/Drama |
This is a process drama based on the book Jungle Drums, by Graeme Base. The students will learn that everyone has a place in the family, neighborhood and community. Everyone is different in some way and we need to accept and celebrate the differences. |
| 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. |
| Finding Characters in Poetry | Language Arts/ Drama |
Students will learn to find characters and emotions in poetry and will learn ways of demonstrating these. |
| 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. |
| Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | Language Arts/ Social Studies/ Drama |
Through process drama, students will learn about the beginning, middle and end of the story and about their own responsibility as a member of a community. |
| Short Vowel Sounds | Language Arts/Drama |
Students will recognize short vowel sounds by acting out CVC words. |
MUSIC
| Title of Lesson | Core Subject Integration | Comments |
| Humpty Dumpty | Language Arts/ Math/Music/Drama | Students will develop a deeper understanding of the vocabulary used in the nursery rhyme, Humpty Dumpty, how to express ideas of the song through actions, count backwards from 10, and how to be safe. |
| Sound House | Social Studies/Music | Kindergarteners will listen and identify which instrument was played from inside the “Sound House.” They will make connections between instrument families and their own families. |
| Literature and Beat Working Together | Language Arts/Music |
Students will learn to pat the beat to an alphabet book, "A My Name is Alice." They will then create their own verse after the pattern set in the book. |
VISUAL ARTS
| Title of Lesson | Core Subject Integration | Comments |
| Color Wheel Portrait Mural | Visual Arts/Social Studies/K-2 Content Core | 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. |