Encourage tinkering with ideas, relationships, connections. Set up situations where students have to find information not readily available in school texts. Provide opportunity for students to design open-ended explorations of the concept. Provide multiple options so students can plan a unique "proof" of learning.

Create Movement

Objective: To add creative response to the music heard.
Activity: 1) Review terms: locomotor (change in location) and nonlocomotor (movement in place) movement. Class names some examples (e.g., walking as locomotor, swaying as nonlocomotor). 2) Ask for volunteers to serve as model for movement activity. Listen to music first to imagine movement to fit with music. 3) Then class creates movement activity to demonstrate A B A form. Combine locomotor and nonlocomotor movements. Have class decide how movements can relate to the movement can relate to the movement of the themes (e.g., Theme 1—going forward? Theme 3—in place?, etc.).
Assessment: Involvement and contributions of the class.