Physical Expedition



Physical Expedition provides a multitude of experiences for students to create, explore, synthesize, analyze, problem solve, and work within crews by using creative movement, dance, sports, and responsive classroom games.

Physical Expedition provides students with an opportunity to connect with their classroom expedition kinesthetically. By taking expedition concepts/content and exploring them through movement/dance, students develop an additional language with which they can express of what they know and understand; using their moving bodies. Students explore the dance elements, Laban Movement Analysis concepts, as well as choreographic skills in order to express their connections.

Students also learn various dance forms such as African dance, Modern and Ballet technique, Tap, Hip- Hop, Capoeira, and Swing dance. These genres weave into the fabric of the expeditions, and history, science, and/or math are expressed by the students. Echoes of ideas resonate from subject to subject.

Students also learn games or sports that connect to their expeditions. Students play basketball, volleyball, rounders, and kickball; go canoeing, hiking, and swimming; and collaboratively create games that demonstrate major concepts of their expedition.