How Do I Do This?

Below you’ll find free lesson plans and ideas across a variety of academic subjects and movement genres. Alongside contributions from the MIT community are publicly available materials from colleagues around the world, creative projects that we’ve found helpful in developing our work. Together, these resources showcase how movement offers a textbook with nearly infinite possibilities for teaching and learning.

Resources range from detailed lesson plans to research studies with sufficient information to replicate the activity described. We've grouped these offerings in two ways: by academic subject and by movement genre. Each listing also identifies the targeted grade level (elementary school, middle school, high school, college / postgraduate). We encourage you to sample materials outside your official "grade level" for ideas that can be adapted to your needs.

You'll discover some academic subjects (physics!) and movement genres (dance!) are especially well represented. Others have only one or two examples, or are better represented by academic studies rather than explicit lesson plans (gesture!). We are continually updating this site and welcome contributions, particularly for less well-represented areas of the field. Please get in touch! The only requirement is that your resource is free to use. Contributions in any language are welcome.

If you have ideas to share, but don't know where to start, we've made a lesson planning template available here.