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PRIMARY DANCE: FIRST GRADE

PRIMARY DANCE: FIRST GRADE // ELEMENTS

PROGRAM OF STUDIES:

Performance Standard

Students experience various ways of moving with attention given to the elements of dance (space, time, force)

Performance Standard

Students will demonstrate an awareness of the elements of dance

ACADEMIC EXPECTATION(S):

1.15 – Students make sense of ideas and communicate ideas with movement

2.22 – Students create products and make presentations that convey concepts and feelings in the human experience through their productions, performance or interpretations

Core Content for Assessment:

AH-E-2.1.31 – Discuss how expressive dances are composed of a variety of locomotor and non-locomotor movements that incorporate the elements of dance: Space (shape, level, direction, pathways), time (beat, tempo) and force (use of energy while moving)

AH-E-2.1.31 – Discuss how the elements of dance and the expressive qualities of movements (ideas, emotions) contribute to the idea of the dance

Demonstrators:

Demonstrate movement elements (e.g., locomotor and non-locomotor)

Express ideas/emotions through movement (e.g., body awareness, space awareness, time, force, technique, relationship)

Demonstrate combined locomotor and non-locomotor movement patterns.

Create and/or perform original dance works

Specific Activities:

AH-E-2.1.11 – Create movement ideas which could be used to compose a dance using locomotor and non-locomotor movement

AH-E-2.1.12 – Create movement patterns using locomotor and non-locomotor movement

Suggested Activities:

Moving different parts of the body while remaining stationary

Moving through space in different fashions

Moving in relation to musical cues

Moving in relation to story or emotional cues

Introducing the concepts of space, time and force

Critical Vocabulary:

Locomotor (movements done while traveling through space e.g., walk, run, skip, hop, jump, slide, leap, gallop); Non-locomotor (movements done without traveling through space, e.g., bend, stretch, twist, swing); space, level, direction, pathways, time, beat, tempo, force

PRIMARY DANCE: FIRST GRADE // DANCE MOVEMENTS AND FORMS

PROGRAM OF STUDIES:

Performance Standard

Students will explore locomotor (e.g., walk, run, hope jump, leap, skip, slide, gallop) and non-locomotor (e.g., bend, stretch, twist, swing) movements

Performance Standard

Students will demonstrate locomotor and non-locomotor movements

Performance Standard

Students will perform a pattern using a combination of locomotor and non-locomotor movements

Performance Standard

Students will recognize and begin to understand the differences in locomotor and non-locomotor movements in simple patterns

ACADEMIC EXPECTATION(S):

1.15 – Students make sense of ideas and communicate ideas with movement

2.22 – Students create products and make presentations that convey concepts and feelings in the human experience through their productions, performance or interpretations

Core Content for Assessment:

AH-E-2.1.31 – Discuss how the elements of dance and the expressive qualities of movements (ideas, emotions) contribute to the idea of the dance

Demonstrators:

Demonstrate movement elements (e.g., locomotor and non-locomotor)

Express ideas/emotions through movement (e.g., body awareness, space awareness, time, force, technique, relationship)

Demonstrate combined locomotor and non-locomotor movement patterns.

Create and/or perform original dance works

Specific Activities:

AH-E-2.1.11 – Create movement ideas which could be used to compose a dance using locomotor and non-locomotor movement

AH-E-2.1.12 – Create movement patterns using locomotor and non-locomotor movement

Suggested Activities:

Moving different parts of the body while remaining stationary

Moving through space in different fashions

Moving in relation to musical cues

Moving in relation to story or emotional cues

Critical Vocabulary:

PRIMARY DANCE: FIRST GRADE // HISTORICAL/CULTURAL CONTEXT

PROGRAM OF STUDIES:

Performance Standard

Students experience dances of diverse cultures, purposes and styles

ACADEMIC EXPECTATION(S):

1.15 – Students construct meaning from and/or communicate ideas and emotions through movement

2.24 – Students appreciate creativity and the values of the arts and the humanities

2.26 – Students recognize differences and commonalities in the human experience through their productions, performances or interpretations

Core Content for Assessment:

AH-E-2.2.32 – Discuss three purposes of dance: ceremonial (celebration, hunting), recreational (folk, social), and artistic (ballet).

AH-E-2.2.33 – Describe, using appropriate terminology, differences and commonalities in dances of different cultures (Colonial America) purposes and styles

Demonstrators:

Demonstrate movement elements (e.g., locomotor and non-locomotor)

Express ideas/emotions through movement

Explore a variety of art forms in dance

Experience and perform a variety of art forms in dance from diverse cultures

Express openness to differences and commonalities among diverse cultures.

Specific Activities:

AH-E-2.2.12 – Perform simple traditional folk dances

Suggested Activities:

Observing and discussing dances of diverse cultures, purposes and styles (American folk)

Critical Vocabulary:

Ceremonial, recreational, artistic, folk

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