Dance: Grade K

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 basic locomotor and non-locomotor movements that communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings

Combine selected characteristics of the elements of dance, such as body parts and positions, shapes, levels, directions, general and personal space, energy, and tempo, and use sensory stimuli to create movement

Demonstrate locomotor and non-locomotor movements using kinesthetic awareness

Demonstrate balance and timing in directed movement experiences

Associate selected dance movements with specific dance genres

Execute memorized movement phrases

Apply the language of danceto observed movement from different genres

Select specific movements and describe their purposes

View selected dances from a variety of cultures and identify their purposes

Perform selected traditional dances from various cultures using a variety of formations and partnering

View and discuss selected contemporary and historical dance styles from other times and places, label them as old or new, and tell why

Create movements that express contrasting moods

Explore ways line, shape, time, and movement are used in dance and other content areas

Improvise movements in response to teacher and self-initiated stimuli

Improvise variations on given movement patterns through manipulation of body and space

Interpret ideas from stories, poems, or songs, using improvisation

Communicate movement ideas using combinations of the elements of dance

Communicate movement ideas using combinations of the elements of dance

Demonstrate movement effects using repetition and sequence

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

Describe how awareness of space affects dance presentation

Complete simple dances from beginning to end incorporating an awareness of space in relationship to other dancers and the performance area

Recognize and describe selected aesthetic principles, such as repetition, unity, variety, and sequence, in dance performances

Recognize selected characteristics of the elements of dance, such as body parts and positions, shapes and levels, tempo, directions, general and personal space, and percussive and sustained energy, in performances

Identify conventions of audience etiquette and how they relate to dance performances