Dance: Grade 3

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 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

Demonstrate knowledge of the contexts of dances from a variety of cultures

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 apply criteria to analyze choreography and performance

Identify, analyze, and apply criteria to evaluate choreography and performance

Identify and describe the elements of dance, such as body, space, time, and energy, used in movement sequences that communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings

Apply the elements of dance and use sensory stimuli to create movement sequences

Perform movement sequences demonstrating kinesthetic awareness

Execute movement sequences using balance and timing effectively

Demonstrate characteristic movements from a minimum of two different genres representative of world cultures

Execute memorized movement sequences accurately

Identify movement sequences in different dance genres using the language of dance

Select specific movements in a dance and explain their purposes

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

Identify the reasons why people in various cultures dance

Share a dance experience that has personal meaning

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

View dances and identify ways that choreographers use dance to comment on history, society, and personal experience

Identify various dance genres

Identify and interpret themes common to dance and other content areas

Perform movements that demonstrate relationships between dance and other art forms

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

Identify the reasons why people in various cultures dance

Share a dance experience that has personal meaning

Improvise movements in response to selected sensory and motivational stimuli

Improvise variations on given individual dance studies through manipulation of body, space, time, and energy

Improvise dance studies individually to communicate personal ideas or experiences by emphasizing two or more elements of dance

Create individual dance studies that integrate the elements of dance, choreographic forms, and aesthetic principles to communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings

Use repetition, sequence, contrast, unity, balance, and proportion to vary movement

Demonstrate a variety of movement effects using repetition, sequence, contrast, unity, balance, and proportion

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

Explain how consistent application of performance competencies and technical proficiency are essential in dance rehearsals and performances

Execute movement with technical proficiency and demonstrate performance competencies

Recognize and describe selected aesthetic principles, such as repetition, unity, variety, sequence, proportion, transition, balance, harmony, climax, and contrast, in dance performances

Identify criteria that might be used to critique personal performances, both improvised and choreographed, and the performances of others

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

Identify how the elements of dance, aesthetic principles, choreographic forms, and performance competencies affect audience response

Describe sources of ideas for personal performances, improvisations, and choreography

Recognize and describe selected aesthetic principles, such as repetition, unity, variety, sequence, proportion, transition, balance, harmony, climax, and contrast

Identify criteria that might be used to critique personal performances, improvised and choreographed, and the performances of others

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

Identify how the elements of dance, aesthetic principles, choreographic forms, and performance competencies affect audience response

Describe sources of ideas for personal performances, improvisations, and choreography