Dance: Grade 2

Dance

Foundations – Fundamental concepts, principles, and skills

Creating - Expression of ideas, experiences, feelings, and images

Response – Reflection, analysis, and evaluation

Connections – Exchanging and relating ideas, experiences, and meanings

Identifies and demonstrates movement elements, skills, and terminology in dance

Understands and models dance etiquette as a classroom participant, performer, and observer

Recognizes concepts of anatomy and kinesiology in movement

Understands and applies music concepts to dance

Demonstrates an understanding of creative and choreographic principles, processes, and structures

Demonstrates an understanding dance as a way to communicate meaning

Demonstrates critical and creative thinking in all aspects of dance

Demonstrates and understands dance in various cultures and historical periods

Demonstrates an understanding of dance as it relates to wellness

Integrates the use of technology and new media

Demonstrates an understanding of dance as it relates to other areas of knowledge

Recognizes and applies terminology of creative movement elements and sub-elements to describe and create movements

Executes both instructed and created sequences of locomotor movements (e.g., walk, run, hop, jump, gallop, and skip) with increased changes in pathways, directions, and levels

Demonstrates contrasts of movement qualities and energy through a wide range of sequenced and simultaneous axial movements

Demonstrates body awareness and connections through stabilization, increased range of motion, simultaneous coordination of varied body parts (e.g., arms and head, opposite arm and leg) as well as sequencing (e.g., arm, arm, leg, leg; head, shoulders, hips, knees)

Demonstrates attentiveness, full participation and cooperation with others in the dance learning environment

Demonstrates focus and concentration in the performance of skills

Applies knowledge of appropriate behaviors and skills as an audience member and dance observer

Applies and translates knowledge of muscles, bones, and joints to specific actions in the dance class

Identifies and describes healthy practices that relate to dancing (e.g., warm up, cool down, nutrition, proper clothing)

Explores movement options and applies knowledge of a range of body parts in a creative movement context

Demonstrates structured movements to a steady beat

Executes instructed or created movements to simple rhythmic patterns

Responds to changes in tempo and qualities through movement

Works collaboratively with others

Utilizes basic partnering skills (e.g., copy, lead, mirror, follow)

Sequences phrases of movement with simple transitions

Extends awareness of dance elements (e.g., body, space, time, energy) through layering

Responds through movement to a variety of stimuli (e.g., scarves, songs, streamers, images)

Explores various approaches to solving a compositional question

Improvises and creates movement based on own ideas, feelings, concepts, and kinesthetic awareness

Recognizes and accurately describes movement and dance elements

Moves expressively to music and/or other accompaniment (e.g., sound, text)

Explains basic features that distinguish one kind of dance from another (e.g., speed, force/energy use, costume, setting, music)

Demonstrates the ability to describe one's own dance as well as another's dance

Describes, compares, and contrasts movement elements of dance

Begins to understand criteria for evaluating simple composition

Identifies the role of dance in personal heritage

Participates in dance activities representing various cultures

Recognizes the reason for dance in other cultures

Describes the similarities and differences in various dance styles (e.g., ballet, jazz, tap)

Explores the principles of a healthy body (e.g., nutrition)

Explores healthy practices that enhance dance

Demonstrates respect for one's well being and the well being of others

Compares and contrasts basic elements of dance through the use of media and technology

Develops an understanding of the various styles of dance through the use of media and technology

Compares and contrasts dance to other art forms

Explores commonalities of essential concepts shared between dance and other subject areas