Dance: Grade 2

Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education - Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, perform, and respond to dance.

Historical, Cultural, and Social Context: Students will demonstrate an understanding of dance as an essential aspect of history and human experience.

Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to create and perform dance.

Aesthetics and Criticism: Students will demonstrate the ability to make aesthetic judgments in dance.

Demonstrate knowledge of how elements of dance are used to communicate meaning

Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness and technical proficiency in dance movement

Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness and technical proficiency in dance performance

Respond to dance through observation, experience, and analysis

Demonstrate knowledge of dances from a variety of cultures

Relate dance to history, society, and personal experience

Demonstrate understanding of the relationships between and among dance and other content areas

Develop the ability to improvise dance

Develop the ability to combine the elements, aesthetic principles, and choreographic forms of dance to communicate meaning

Develop knowledge and execution of performance competencies in dance

Identify and apply criteria to evaluate choreography and performance

Identify and demonstrate locomotor and non-locomotor movements accurately that communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings

Combine selected elements of dance and use sensory stimuli to create movement patterns

Demonstrate movement patterns using kinesthetic awareness

Demonstrate movement patterns using kinesthetic awareness

Demonstrate characteristic movements from dance genres representative of world cultures

Execute memorized movement patterns accurately

Identify movement patterns from different genres using the language of dance

Select specific movements from a pattern and explain their purposes

View dances from cultures related to general classroom studies and explain their purposes

Perform selected traditional dances from various cultures using a variety of formations, partnering, and combinations of dance steps

Identify similarities and differences in content and form between and among contemporary and historical dance styles from other times and places

View dances, create patterns, and describe how each relates to personal experiences

Identify and explore themes common to dance and other content areas

Improvise movements in response to a variety of motivational stimuli

Improvise variations on given short movement sequences through manipulation of body, space, time, and energy

Improvise short movement sequences that communicate themes from stories, poems, and songs by emphasizing at least one element of dance

Manipulate the elements of dance to communicate the same idea or concept in a variety of ways

Demonstrate movement effects using repetition, sequence, contrast, and unity

Use choreographic forms, such as narrative, theme and variation, ABA, and AB, to communicate ideas through dance movement

Explain how awareness of space, physical discipline, and concentration affect dance presentations

Perform simple dances from beginning to end incorporating awareness of space, physical discipline, and concentration

Recognize and describe selected performance competencies, such as awareness of space and concentration, in dance performances

Describe how the elements of dance are combined in observed performances to create mood or communicate concepts

Identify conventions of audience etiquette and how they relate to dance performances in a variety of cultures and settings