FCPS Competency Assurance

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PRIMARY DANCE: KINDERGARTEN

PRIMARY DANCE: KINDERGARTEN // ELEMENTS

PROGRAM OF STUDIES:

Performance Standard

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

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 – Dance elements: Space (shape, level, direction, pathways), time (beat, tempo) and force (use of energy while moving)

Demonstrators:

Demonstrate movement elements (e.g., locomotor and nonlocomotor)

Explore the elements and principles of dance forms

Create or perform original or existing dances

Specific Activities:

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: KINDERGARTEN // 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

ACADEMIC EXPECTATION(S):

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

Core Content for Assessment:

AH-E-2.1.31 – Dance elements: Space (shape, level, direction, pathways), time (beat, tempo) and force (use of energy while moving)

Demonstrators:

Demonstrate movement elements (e.g., locomotor and nonlocomotor)

Specific Activities:

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: KINDERGARTEN // HISTORICAL/CULTURAL CONTEXT

PROGRAM OF STUDIES:

Performance Standard

Students will 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).

Demonstrators:

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

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

Critical Vocabulary:

Ceremonial, recreational, artistic, folk

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