The Activity Bank

The GIVE Activity Bank is a resource bank of short activities or skill-based tasks that already include supports and accommodations to meet a range of students’ needs. These activities can be easily added to your lesson—with small adjustments for your unique students and classroom—to make it more inclusive.

These activities have been submitted as is by New York City Teaching Artists from New Victory Theater, ArtsConnection, and Community-Word Project.

Submit site search

  • Magic Trick Animation

    Ages: Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
    Art Forms: Media Arts

    In this activity, students will be magicians and use sticky notes, their hands, and a prop to create the illusion of objects appearing, disappearing, and switc…

  • Making Foley Sounds

    Ages: Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
    Art Forms: Theater, Music, Media Arts

    This activity helps students discover how the sounds used in movies and animations are created behind the scenes, by practicing making sounds with various obje…

  • Movement Extremes

    Ages: Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
    Art Forms: Dance

    This activity invites students to think about size, speed, and specificity of movements in dance improvisation with a series of descriptive prompts. This lesso…

  • Moving Object Stop Motion

    Ages: Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
    Art Forms: Visual Arts, Theater, Media Arts

    In this playful skill-building activity, students collaborate to create a short animation of an object moving across a surface on its own. This is a great acti…

  • Pass the Love

    Ages: Early Childhood (PK-2), Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
    Art Forms: Literary Arts, Visual Arts, Theater, Music, Media Arts, Dance

    A closing ritual to reflect on the lesson, and to take a moment together as a whole class ensemble.

  • Perimeters, Bisections, and Centers

    Ages: Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
    Art Forms: Dance

    This activity is an introduction to taped floor dance, which comes from blind dance tradition, and introduces the idea of using a taped cross on the floor as a…

  • Point of View

    Ages: Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
    Art Forms: Media Arts, Visual Arts

    Students will use photography or drawing to capture different points of view and reflect on the experience.

  • Quick Group Scavenger Hunt

    Ages: Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
    Art Forms: Visual Arts

    In this small-group activity, students learn about each other and build community by participating in a scavenger hunt.