Dance: Grade K

Creating

Performing

Responding

Connecting

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation. Enduring Understanding: Space, time, and energy are basic elements of dance.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

Respond in movement to a variety of stimuli (for example, music/sound, text, objects, images, symbols, observed dance).

Explore different ways to do basic locomotor and nonlocomotor movements by changing at least one of the elements of dance.

Improvise dance that has a beginning, middle, and end.

Express an idea, feeling, or image, through improvised movement moving alone or with a partner.

Apply suggestions for changing movement through guided improvisational experiences.

Depict a dance movement by drawing a picture or using a symbol.

Make still and moving body shapes that show lines (for example, straight, bent, and curved), changes levels, and vary in size (large/small). Join with others to make a circle formation and work with others to change its dimensions.

Demonstrate tempo contrasts with movements that match to tempo of sound stimuli.

Identify and apply different characteristics to movements (for example, slow, smooth, or wavy).

Demonstrate sameside and crossbody locomotor and nonlocomotor movements, body patterning movements, and body shapes.

Move safely in general space and start and stop on cue during activities, group formations, and creative explorations while maintaining personal space.

Move body parts in relation to other body parts and repeat and recall movements upon request.

Dance for and with others in a designated space.

Select a prop to use as part of a dance.

Find a movement that repeats in a dance.

Demonstrate or describe observed or performed dance movements

Observe movement and describe it using simple dance terminology.

Find a movement that was noticed in a dance. Demonstrate the movement that was noticed and explain why it attracted attention.

Recognize and name an emotion that is experienced when watching, improvising, or performing dance and relate it to a personal experience.

Observe a work of visual art. Describe and then express through movement something of interest about the artwork, and ask questions for discussion concerning the artwork.

Describe or demonstrate the movements in a dance that was watched or performed.