Dance: Grade 3

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 of 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

Executes and combines a wide range of locomotor movements and movement combinations (e.g., walk, run, hop, jump, gallop, and skip) and foundational technical dance steps (e.g., chasse, grapevine, step-hop) with appropriate energy and coordination, in a variety of pathways, directions, and qualities

Executes a range and sequence of axial movements comprised of space, force, body shapes and qualities (e.g., levels, sharp/smooth, curved/straight, heavy/light, swing/float)

Demonstrates clear weight transfer and directional and facing changes in both axial and locomotor combining movements

Demonstrates the ability to perform a sequence of movements in response to oral instruction and improvise from a sequence of general prompts

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 knowledge of healthy practices for dance, such as proper warm up and cool down

Describes the concept of alignment

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

Creates and sequences movements in association with simple rhythmic patterns

Adapts to changes in speeds and tempos within instructed and improvisational dance

Demonstrates how music or sound can influence movement quality

Explores working collaboratively with others

Utilizes dance elements and technique to create more complex dance compositions

Creates movement based on their own ideas, feelings, concepts, and kinesthetic awareness

Explores problem solving skills through movement

Responds through movement to a variety of stimuli (e.g., literature, visual art, props)

Implements various approaches to solving a compositional question

Uses improvisation to discover and invent movement and to solve movement problems

Uses a combination of improvisation and choreographic tools to create movement based on one's own ideas, feelings, concepts, and kinesthetic awareness

Recognizes and accurately describes movement and movement elements.

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

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

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

Describes, compares, and contrasts movement elements of dance

Demonstrates an understanding of dance as a means of communication, expression, and interaction

Responds to criteria for evaluating simple composition

Explores dances from a personal, community or regional heritage

Understands the role of dance in various cultures

Identifies a correlation between historical periods and styles of dance

Recognizes the reason for dance in other cultures (e.g., Why we dance?)

Compares and contrasts various dance styles (e.g., ballet, jazz, tap, folk)

Explains how health and nutrition enhance dance ability

Develops and practices habits of safe moving

Explores life skills as they apply to dance

Explores a personal definition of dance as an art form 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

Relates and transfers meanings, ideas, and experiences from other disciplines and areas of knowledge to dance