First graders use their imagination to dance like animals — flapping like a bird, slithering like a snake, stomping like an elephant — exploring how different movements can express different creatures.
Students will be able to…
You can pretend to be any animal with your body — flap like a bird or stomp like an elephant! How would you move to dance like different animals?
Project this and match each animal to how you would move like it — tap an animal, then tap the movement.
Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.
Pretend to be any animal with your body — how would you move?
Children explore.
Children move.
Children perform.
Children close.
Aligned to the National Core Arts Standards (Dance).
Create movement inspired by ideas.
Move in different ways.
Connect dance to the world.
Perform expressively.
Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.
Have children pick an animal and dance like it for their family to guess. A printable animal-dance sheet is in the Arts library.
Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.
A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.
A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.