This section contains activities in four categories that you can do with your students both before and after the show.

Here's a description of each category and the recommended activities within them. While we invite you to explore ALL activities, these are the most applicable to the 2004 program:

**Designates a new 2004 activity

THINKING AND TALKING contains discussion topics regarding dance, cultural perspectives, choreography, and family histories.

**Time and Time Again – How is time experienced and expressed differently depending on what you’re doing?

**The Earth is Dancing – Discover the immensity of geological time, and see the tectonic plates shifting through the eons on our geological clock.

Cultural Appreciation - The power of positive words and understanding and appreciating differences.

Why and How We Dance - An exploration of human reasons to dance

Climb your Family Tree - Discover the geography of your family tree, and find out what dance traditions you might have in your roots.

MOVEMENT AND MUSIC includes a resource page illustrating musical instruments seen in the show, and guidance for several activities in which the students can move and dance themselves. Along with being great fun, these movement activities can help them to appreciate the diversity of dance, music, costumes, and cultural styles in the show.

**Music is Math – Kathak clock - A bridge between mathematics and music, through rhythm cycles from India.

**More Mudras – Learn more gestures called mudras from India, and make up your own.

Body Music - Students learn to make music with their own bodies.

Gestures Have Special Meaning - A challenge to create a dance, using specific movements that you create to tell your own story.

Movement Games give you the vocabulary to guide the children through selected movement qualities and styles in their own movement.

Rhythm Dialogues - Have conversations in rhythm, with no words!

ART AND CONSTRUCTION provides several ideas to inspire students' own creations in preparation for and reflection of the show.

**Plate Tectonics with an orange – Tectonic plate movements reveal the earth’s dance through time.

**Find Music Everywhere – Discover the music in everyday objects and make them sing!

Drawing Rhythms – Listen to music and draw your interpretation! You can even make up your own notation!

Get Ready - shows students a glimpse of what it takes to put on a performance and prepares them for the crucial role of audience member.

Memory Art - a good post show activity, create work for next year's Kid's Art Gallery!

KIDSROOM - Activities for the kids to try themselves

**The Earth is Dancing – Discover the immensity of geological time, and see the tectonic plates shifting through the eons on our geological clock.

**CrossWorld Puzzle 2004

RECIPES - Yummy traditional recipes from around the world, which you can prepare at school or at home as a special treat.

**Aloo Tikki – North Indian Potato patties (N. India)
**Kalua Chicken - Slow roasted chicken (Hawaii)
Southern Style Sweet Potato Casserole (Southern U.S.)