Dance: Grade 2

Learning Dance Skills and the Creative Process

Analysis, Culture, and History

Healthy Practices

Integration

Community and Careers

Students demonstrate knowledge and skills of dance elements.

Students understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

Students understand and demonstrate dance as a way to create and communicate.

Students reflect upon, evaluate, and analyze dance experiences.

Students understand and demonstrate dance from diverse cultures and historical periods.

Students demonstrate connections between dance and healthy living.

Students integrate dance with the other arts and disciplines outside the arts.

Students value the role of dance in the life of the community and identify its associated careers.

Identify various body parts and demonstrate their range of motion.

Demonstrate and identify the element of space using its spatial components: shape, personal and shared space, locomotor and nonlocomotor/axial movement, levels, direction, and pathway.

Demonstrate and identify the element of force through the use of sharp, smooth, heavy, and light movements.

Demonstrate and identify the element of time through movement using tempo and rhythm.

Explore a variety of solutions to a movement problem alone and with others.

Demonstrate the ability to repeat an improvised movement using a prop.

Identify, demonstrate, and create floor pathways.

Express feelings, stories, or ideas through movement or gesture.

Respond to and discuss dance movement from various sources/styles.

Compare human movement to dance.

Share personal feelings and experiences from participation in creative movement activities.

Express personal feelings about observed dance movement.

Describe observed dance movement activities using two dance elements.

Describe the role dance plays in cultural celebrations and historical events.

Identify and demonstrate dances from various cultures.

Identify and explore dance in a particular culture and historical period.

Demonstrate self control in creative dance activities and identify increased knowledge of fitness benefits of participation.

Demonstrate healthy practices in dance.

Identify common vocabulary used in dance and one other art form (visual art, music, theatre).

Explore and compare connections between dance and two other discipline areas (language arts, mathematics, science, social studies).

Demonstrate respect and appreciation during a live dance performance.

Identify various artistic careers associated with dance.