Dance: Grade 3

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.

Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness (body awareness) through isolation and coordination of various body parts.

Demonstrate an increased knowledge of 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, light, tight, and loose movements.

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

Create a variety of solutions to a movement problem in a small group and explore transitions from one solution to another.

Demonstrate the ability to repeat improvised movement using props and images.

Utilize all dance elements (body, space, force, and time) to create and demonstrate floor pathways.

Demonstrate and identify feelings, stories, or ideas through movement or gesture.

Discuss interpretations and reactions to a dance.

Identify and demonstrate similarities and differences between dance and human movement.

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

Express personal feelings about observed dance movement.

Describe observed dance movement activities using three dance elements.

Describe how an observed dance utilized choreographic principles, processes, or structures.

Compare and contrast dances from two cultures or historical periods.

Demonstrate an increased awareness of dances from various cultures.

Identify and demonstrate dances from two different historical periods.

Identify the benefits of concentration and focus during creative dance activities.

Identify and demonstrate healthy practices in dance.

Identify common themes found in other art forms and explore them through movement (visual art, music, theatre).

Explore subject matter or concepts of one other discipline area through movement (language arts, mathematics, science, social studies).

Experience live dance performances and discuss their contribution to the community.

Identify various production careers associated with dance.