{"id":668,"date":"2025-10-17T12:15:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/?page_id=668"},"modified":"2026-01-07T00:20:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:20:34","slug":"sample-activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/sample-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Sample Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"36\" src=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/thickline-1024x36.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/thickline-1024x36.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/thickline-300x10.png 300w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/thickline-768x27.png 768w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/thickline.png 1290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These activities invite learners to use their bodies as tools for thinking, exploring, and making meaning. Instead of starting with explanations or diagrams, students jump into movement, experimenting, collaborating, and reflecting together. Whether they are brainstorming dance ideas or exploring how particles behave in different states of matter, these experiences make abstract ideas visible, social, and felt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Designed to be flexible and inclusive, these activities support multiple ways of knowing, including embodied, verbal, social, and conceptual learning. They work well across ages, disciplines, and learning styles. Each activity is easy to facilitate, requires minimal materials, and can be adapted for classrooms, studios, and informal learning spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Explore Ideas Through Movement<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Downloadable, embodied activities for creative and scientific think<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/line-1024x9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/line-1024x9.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/line-300x3.png 300w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/line-768x7.png 768w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/line.png 1290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Getting a Feel for the Phenomenon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exploring solid, liquid, gas, and state change <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These four activities help students experience how particles behave in solids, liquids, and gases rather than only seeing them represented in textbooks or diagrams. By embodying molecular motion, spacing, and energy, learners make sense of invisible phenomena through sensation, interaction, and reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/Activity1.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/60.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/60.png 300w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/60-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/Activity1.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/Activity1.pdf\">Download Activity 1<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/Activty2.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/61.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/61.png 300w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/61-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/Activty2.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/Activty2.pdf\">Download Activity 2<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/Activity3.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/59-copy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/59-copy.png 300w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/59-copy-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/Activity3.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/Activity3.pdf\">Download Activity 3<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/Activity4.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/62-copy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/62-copy.png 300w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/62-copy-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/Activity4.pdf\">Download Activity 4<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/line-1024x9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/line-1024x9.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/line-300x3.png 300w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/line-768x7.png 768w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/line.png 1290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brainstorming Ways to Represent an Idea<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Embodied Brainstorming &#8211; No Bad Ideas Game<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This playful activity helps learners practice generating and combining ideas without judgment. Working in small groups, participants transform random words and prompts into short movement phrases while using every idea that emerges. The emphasis is on participation, collaboration, and creative risk taking, helping students see that any movement can become part of a dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2026\/01\/No-Bad-Ideas.pdf\">Download Activity<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/line-1024x9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/line-1024x9.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/line-300x3.png 300w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/line-768x7.png 768w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/10\/line.png 1290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These activities invite learners to use their bodies as tools for thinking, exploring, and making meaning. Instead of starting with explanations or diagrams, students jump into movement, experimenting, collaborating, and reflecting together. Whether they are brainstorming dance ideas or exploring how particles behave in different states of matter, these experiences make abstract ideas visible, social, and felt.<\/p>\n<p>Designed to be flexible and inclusive, these activities support multiple ways of knowing, including embodied, verbal, social, and conceptual learning.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/sample-activities\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"218,106,1,139","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-668","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/668\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/choreographing-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}