Assignment #9

1.Children move naturally. List and explain the guidelines suggested in the textbook that help teachers generate ideas for students to learn music through rhythmic bodily response activities (p. 259).
Teachers can have students sing songs that force them to move such as "The Hokey Pokey". When students have learned the songs well enough then it is suggested to incorporate the movements for the dances.

2. What does locomotor skill means? What is non-locomotor skill?
Locomotor skills means to move from one place to another, while nonlocomotor skills means to move within a stationary position.

3. List the four stages in developing children’s body awareness.
movement as an expression of problem solving
movement as an expression of imagery
movement with no external beat
movement to a beat with a sense of timing.

4. What are the musical concepts that can be taught through movement activities?
The beat/meter, fast, slow, getting faster, getting slower, accents, dynamics, rhythm patterns and melodic contour are all musical concepts that can be taught through movement activities.

5. Choose one concept and summarize the lesson provided in the textbook telling how this particular musical concept is taught through the movement activity.
To get students to learn accents, the book suggest to ask students to make tight fists, then open their hands suddenly as they hear accents. Then have them stand and relax their bodies, with arms hanging loosely at the sides, and tighten their muscles for the accents.