Multisensory+Lesson

** by: Jen Grasl  ** Title of Lesson: Guided Imagery: Under the Ocean Adventure Grade Level: K-4 ART Objective(s):Introduce students to life in the ocean using pictures, props, music, and a Guided Imagery story.Students will create a crayon resist image from underwater. ***attached sample script*** Time: 3 class periods of 47 minutes each.3 week lesson. (I service the students once a week for 47 minutes) ** KTAV  ** || ** Activity Description  ** || The students will have the opportunity to get out of their seats and explore the underwater transformation of the classroom.The will have the ability to act out the actions as I am describing it to them in the Guided Imagery. || The students will be encouraged to play in the sand box that contains different seashells.They can feel the texture of the starfish and the mounted fish that I have provided.During the story I will describe in detail the temperature, the texture of the sand, and the secret door as they are searching for the handle. || The students will listen to the Guided Imagery story I will provide while listening to relaxing music that has the ocean waves and the sounds of birds in the background while having the “beach” experience. || The students will walk into an environment that has been transformed from a classroom into an underwater environment.There will be pictures of fish, a slideshow of underwater and beach scenes, sand, seashells, and the entire story is done with their eyes closed while “visualizing” what I speak to them. || My script: Everyone close your eyes and put your heads down.We are going to first relax and then go on a journey.Everyone think of something that has been bothering you lately.It could be a missing assignment, a fight with a friend; anything that you are upset about.When I say to, we are going to take a deep breath in through our nose and breathe out our mouths.When we breathe out, I want you to imagine you are blowing your problem away.Everyone take a deep breath in…and breathe out.Breathe in… and breathe out.Keep breathing deeply as I talk to you.(I begin to play the relaxing music)We are going to relax and listen to a story.I want you to imagine it in your head, just like you are dreaming.Deep breathe in…and out.You may act out what I am telling you as long as your eyes remain closed.I want you to //imagine// that you get out of your seat, the room is dim and cool.You slowly walk over to the classroom door.It is closed.You reach out and grab the door knob.It is warm.Grab the door knob and turn it slowly.Open the door.As you open the door a light comes in, you feel it’s warmth.It is the sun.As you step through the door you do not step into the hallway but on a beach.You are barefoot.Feel the texture of the sand on your feet.Feel the warmth of the sun on your face.(music with sound effects still playing in the background) Listen to the sounds of the waves, feel the sun as it warms your body, feel the warm sand as it covers your toes with each step, listen to the birds…In the distance you see a sand castle.As you get closer you realize it is no ordinary sand castle, it is life size.You are feeling very warm from the sun.You walk over to the entrance. Slowly step inside.Instantly your body is cooler.As you look around you notice a dim light to your left side.Slowly you walk towards it.You are now standing at the top of a staircase that leads down a staircase that has a light at the bottom.As you take each step down your body gets cooler and cooler.I would like you to reach out and touch the wall of the sandcastle.With each step you take down the staircase, it gets cooler and cooler as the light becomes brighter and brighter.You step down the bottom step and realize you are in a room, a room that has a glass top, bottom, and sides; you are under the ocean.As you look around you see (describe specifics, fish?, mermaids? Sunken pirate ship? Treasure? Octopus?)
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Was everyone engrossed in the lesson? After you describe what you want, you simply reverse them back into the classroom. Repeating the descriptive story from before. Using images from their visualization and the ones provided in the room. They will create an underwater drawing of what they “saw”.Have them color in crayon and use a wet on wet watercolor technique to create the water.