Dance: Grade 2

Acquire a basic understanding of movement skills with increasing proficiency.

Exhibit movement problem-solving experiences while demonstrating kinesthetic awareness of movement.

Develop a greater understanding of the elements of dance.

Compose and describe movement with guided criteria.

Understand the purposes of dance in relation to other cultures, times, and places.

Perceive the meaning and beauty of dance.

Identify and distinguish valid connections between dance, other subject areas, and everyday life.

Demonstrate physical fitness components: flexibility, coordination, agility, endurance, strength, control.

Demonstrate the ability to vary control and direct forces of human energy used in basic axial and motor skills.

Properly demonstrate and create locomotor movements with various accompaniment while employing spatial concepts of direction and pathways (e.g., sideways, curved, zigzagged).

Use improvisation to discover movements in response to texture, sound, and color movement problems.

Respond through movement to a wide range of stimuli, music, books, pictures, rhymes, and/or props.

Explore basic actions of the body while traveling (alone and with partners) through space in a given spatial pattern or design (e.g., circle, line, square).

Vary the time-value given to a specific movement to discover composition/movement possibilities.

Create shapes and movements using different spatial levels and positional concepts (e.g., low level shape in front of an object).

Create visual art to represent time, space, or energy in movement.

Create a phrase of shapes that demonstrate a beginning, middle, and end.

Create a sequence of movements that demonstrates how dance is different from other movements, such as sports or common gestures.

Perform folk and traditional dances of other countries.

Understand how dance is used as a form of storytelling in various cultures.

Identify and relate the relationship of dance in society to celebrations and family customs.

Identify and name dance movement using correct dance terminology.

Use dance terminology to identify and describe dance components within an observed or performed dance.

Explain how the arts are used in daily life.

Identify examples of how dance relates to other subject areas.