Dance: Grade K

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.

Isolate various body parts through movement.

Explore the element of space through spatial components: shape, personal and shared space, locomotor and nonlocomotor/axial movement.

Explore the element of force through the use of sharp and smooth movements.

Explore the element of time through movement using tempo and rhythm.

Explore leading and following skills using contrasting ideas.

Explore the difference between improvised and learned movement.

Understand and demonstrate that dance has a beginning, middle, and end.

Explore the expression of feelings through movement.

Respond to dance movement from various sources/styles.

Explore the different ways that humans move.

Share personal feelings from participation in creative movement activities.

Express personal feelings about observed dance movement.

Describe observed dance movement activities using one dance element.

Identify the types of dance in various communities and cultures.

Explore dances from various cultures.

Introduce the physical and mental benefits of creative movement.

Introduce healthy practices in dance.

Explore similarities between dance and one other art form (visual art, music, theatre).

Explore connections between dance and one other discipline area (language arts, mathematics, science, social studies).

Show respect and appreciation during a live dance performance.

Identify that dance can be a career.