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Get your students up and moving with these fun, fully-scripted music and movement lesson plans. From traditional folk dances to jungle-themed form activities, these lessons are designed to ramp up the fun while keeping your classroom active. They're perfect for high-energy days when students need to move to learn! Use them as is, or make them your own to create unplugged musical moments your students will love!

Bow Belinda | Music Lesson Plan - Contradance Grade 2-4 Students learn to sing "Bow Belinda" and participate in a traditional folk dance. Get Lesson
John Kanaka | Music Lesson Plan - Eighth/Quarter Note and Quarter Rest Grade 2-4 "John Kanaka" is all-in-one fun! Students demonstrate an understanding of basic rhythms using drums or rhythm sticks while dancing in this joy-filled lesson. Get Lesson
Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (Mussorgsky) - ABA Form Grade 1-2 Hatch musical understanding! Kids peck and explore as they engage with this composer masterwork in an unforgettable, hands-on way! Get Lesson
Gymnopedie (Erik Satie) | Same/Different Grade 1-3 Teach the concept of same vs. different through a graceful movement activity choreographed to Satie’s Gymnopedie No. 1. Get Lesson
Run From The Farmer | Music Lesson Plan - Syncopation Grade 2-3 "Run from the Farmer" is a hilarious song about Thanksgiving, told from the turkey's perspective. This super-charged lesson introduces syncopation in a fun and active way. Get Lesson
Trashin' the Camp/Tarzan | Music Lesson Plan - AABA Form Grade 2-3 Bring the jungle to your music classroom! Students learn AABA form as they dance a different step to each section of Trashin' the Camp from Disney's "Tarzan." Get Lesson
Viennese Musical Clock | Music Lesson Plan - Rondo Grade 2-3 Bring Kodaly’s masterpiece to life through role-play as dancers, trumpeters, knights, and royalty in Vienna while learning about the Seven-Part Rondo form (ABACADA). Get Lesson