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Now, we'll begin creating our rock dance
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and this first lesson focuses
on sedimentary rock and fossils.
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Do you know anything about
sedimentary rock, yes?
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Discourse with the students
the different characteristics
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and qualities they might see in sediment
and in sedimentary rock.
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That's the kind of rock where we find
that dinosaur bones has been preserved,
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plants, and all sorts of bugs and animals
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are preserved in sedimentary rocks.
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The dance begins with students
creating a fossil pose,
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discuss with them the different things
that they might see as fossils,
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plants or animals and how their body
might create the shapes
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of those plants and animals
of in the rock.
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Plant your feet on the floor
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and I want you to make some
kind of fossil shape,
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so you could be a dinosaur bone.
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You could be a grasshopper.
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Your fossil pose can be any kind
of shape you want.
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Give it a try.
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Now we are going to take our fossil poses
and crumble down to the floor
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and we are going to use that choosing
four body parts to isolate.
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One person is going to crumble,
sedimentary rock.
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All right Julio you try, sedimentary rock.
(laughter)
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Oh his nose feel off, good.
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Encourage the students
to be adventurous in their choices
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Ask them to try using different body parts
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crumbling them in a variety of directions.
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And the two things I wanted to see in
that activity where that the students
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could isolate a body part but also
that they could move it rhythmically.
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This is what is going to happen.
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We have to do four sets of crumbling.
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You have to pick four different
body parts to crumble
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and I want to be able to tell each time
which body part crumbles.
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Here we go, ready, fossil pose.
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Five, six, five, six ready, go.
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Sedimentary rock.
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Sedimentary rock.
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Sedimentary rock,
last one get all the way down.
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Sedimentary rock.
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Awesome, that was so great.
Stand up.
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Now practice this section
of the dance with the music
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either in small groups
or as a whole class.
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We are going to watch these guys
do their sedimentary rock
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and I want you to see
if they are very clear
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what body part is crumbling
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and also that is crumbling, right
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that it's crumbling
and stumbling its way down.
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Students should be able to both isolate
their crumbling body part
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from the rest of their still pose
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and accurately represent their sedimentary
rock rhythm in their body.
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All right, hold still here we go.
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♪ (music) ♪
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Sedimentary rock.
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Sedimentary rock.
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Sedimentary rock.
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Sedimentary rock.
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Excellent.
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Now that we have practiced this section
of the routine with the music
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take a moment with the students
to reflect on how they might make
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their movements more dynamic
or more clear.
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So what about the quality
of their movement
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did it look...
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could you tell what body part
they were trying to use?
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I think [Julio] was moving
his neck or his back.
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Back is a good one.
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That's a tricky one to crumble.
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Julio, could you try that for me?
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Stand up and make your pose.
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And can you try crumble your back?
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What's interesting is that when
we start to build the dance
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we all find that almost every movement
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involves some elements of dance
if not many elements of dance.
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We talked about moving from high to low.
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We talked about the specific
energy of crumbling,
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and we talked about our physical self
and our place in space.