Groove Coin Central
“Groove Coins” are wooden manipulatives that accompany each SK InterACTIVE Experience. Learn the moves and discover creative ways to use the coins in your classroom!
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How do you use your Groove Coins?
“Groove Coins” are wooden manipulatives available for your SK InterACTIVE Experience. How do you use them? The possibilities are truly endless. Mix and match the coins to create new Dance Sentences/Combos or stick with the classics of Connect 4, Memory, and Tic Tac Toe. We’ve included some ideas below but we want to hear how you are using your Groove Coins!
Movement Sentences
- Hand out 1 groove coin for every student
- Instruct them not show their groove coin to anyone else
- When the teacher says “go”, they must find (3-5) group members with a different coin
- When in their groups they can put their coins in any order to create a movement sentence
- Each group can present to the class with their choice of music
What's that Groove?
- Put an arrangement of coins in a hat.
- Ask a student to pick 1
- Student reads and shows the coins
- Student demonstrates/teaches the dance movement
- Play a quick selection of music and students practice the dance move
- Repeat with various coins
Name that Groove!
- Student picks groove coin from a hat
- Without showing the groove coin, student performs the movement
- Other students try to guess the movement
- Fun to play music while student performs the move
Response to Various Music
- Put an arrangement of coins in a hat.
- Ask various students to pick 1 coin each
- Students with coins move to front of the class in a line facing other students
- Students reads and shows the coins in order, one by one
- Each student demonstrates their dance movement and together they make a dance sentence
- Play a quick selection of music and students all students follow the dance sentence in order
- Play different music and discuss how the movement would change (fast, slow, joyful, intense, soft)
- Repeat with various coins or switch the dance sentence
Quick Group Sorting
- Hand out 1 coin to each student
- Instruct them not show their groove coin to anyone else
- When the teacher says “go”, they must find all their group members
- Once all the group members have been found, they must sit down
- Golden rule: No talking
- Groups share their dance groove to the class to music
- Experiment to see how quickly they can form groups without verbal communication (team work, strategy)
Movement Patterns
- Ask students to pick 1 coin from a hat
- Students are asked to look at the coin but not to show anyone else
- Then they are challenged to find other students in the room that they can make a dance pattern with. ABAB, ABCABC, ABBA ABBA, ect.
- Note: patterns must repeat so it is important to find members that have the same dance
- Once students have made a pattern, they can demonstrate it to the class and see if other students can repeat or extend the pattern.