Dance: Grade 5

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) by exhibiting proper body alignment, balance, coordination, and concentration.

Demonstrate increased spatial awareness by combining two spatial components.

Demonstrate increased awareness of the element of force by combining two different force components.

Demonstrate increased awareness of the element of time by utilizing various time components through movement.

Create movement phrases with a partner using contrast, variety, transitions, and repetition.

Choreograph a dance sequence based on students' ideas using improvised movement.

Create phrases of movement with transitions using symmetry, asymmetry, AB, and ABA forms.

Create and present simple dance sequences that communicate feelings, stories, or ideas.

Identify and explore theatrical elements that may affect the interpretation of a dance.

Create dance movements from everyday movements and gestures.

Identify and discuss personal feelings and thoughts from involvement in dance activities.

Express personal feelings and opinions about observed dance movement.

Analyze a dance looking at dance elements and the effect of theatrical elements.

Analyze a dance looking at choreographic principles, processes, and structures, and the effect of theatrical elements.

Compare opinions on the meaning of a dance performance.

Identify and describe dances from two or more cultures or historical periods.

Research and demonstrate a dance that represents a culture from the local community.

Identify and demonstrate a folk, social, or theatrical dance from a specific historical period.

Identify and discuss the importance of dance movement and its role in stress management.

Identify and discuss healthy and unhealthy practices that affect a dancer's body and its performance.

Investigate the creative processes of various art forms and how they relate to dance (visual art, music, theatre).

Describe and demonstrate how dance is related to other disciplines (language arts, mathematics, science, social studies).

Attend and support live dance performances and recognize that dance improves the quality of life in a community.

Identify other careers associated with dance.