Dance: Grade 4

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 increased kinesthetic awareness (body awareness) through coordination, concentration, and isolation of various body parts.

Demonstrate increased spatial awareness though continued explorations of spatial components: shape, personal and shared space, locomotor and nonlocomotor/axial movement, levels, direction, and pathway.

Demonstrate increased awareness of the element of force through continued explorations of sharp, smooth, heavy, light, tight, and loose movements.

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

Demonstrate the ability to work alone and in a small group using the choreographic principles of contrast, variety, and transitions.

Create a short choreographed sequence by repeating improvised movements.

Demonstrate the concepts of symmetry, asymmetry, AB, and ABA forms.

Identify and create movements to express feelings, stories, or ideas.

Identify and discuss the various factors that can affect the interpretation of a dance.

Identify and demonstrate differences between gesture/pantomime and dance.

Express personal feelings and experiences from participation in dance.

Express personal feelings and opinions about observed dance movement.

Describe observed dance movement using all dance elements.

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

Speculate on the meaning of a dance performance.

Investigate dance within Indiana's cultural history.

Learn a dance utilizing a cultural resource in the local community.

Investigate and demonstrate a dance from an historical period.

Identify dance movement activities that manage emotion and stress.

Introduce capabilities and limitations of the body.

Respond to a dance work using another art form (visual art, music, theatre).

Identify and compare similar concepts or themes/principles found in dance and other disciplines (language arts, mathematics, science, social studies).

Identify and attend live dance performances and discover ways in which community members help create and/or support the productions.

Identify various arts administration careers associated with dance.