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This activity is great for getting students up and moving. Allowing students to explore different types of movement this activity fits in both drama and physical education for movement. The great thing about this activity is that it can be used as both an activity as well as a transition tool. For example, to use it as an activity the class can do it as a class or in small groups, exploring natural objects like a thorn bush. Students will move around using creative movements to represent a thron bush. The teacher can point out to students main focus points such as height, direction and speed. While students move the teacher can clap or perform a signal to tell students to freeze into a tableaux. On the other hand the activity can be used as a transition tool by getting students to move in a certain way, example room is full of water, from one point to another like from the carpet to their desks. This gives students a more structured way to transition from one area to the next in the classroom. I like this activity best as a transition tool. I will use this tool in my future classrooms to create smoother transitions from one area to the next in the school day. I can also link this to other subject areas such as social studies by asking students to move to their desks like they are in the middle of the Pacific etc.