Dance: Grade 3

Acquire a basic understanding of movement skills with increasing proficiency.

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

Develop and utilize elements of dance in movement.

Compose and describe movement with guided criteria.

Understand the purposes and functions of dance across cultures, times, and places.

Perceive and understand the meaning and beauty of dance.

Distinguish and use valid connections between dance and other disciplines.

Employ proper alignment in weight transfers while performing movement.

Demonstrate anatomical knowledge of major body parts through arranging and creating axial movements.

Show a variety of combinations of basic motor skills and locomotor movement.

Use improvisational skills to problem solve through assembling movements of creating new movement.

Organize the steps to an everyday task and perform, employing elements of dance (e.g., changing time, value, range/size of movement).

Discuss and justify movement choices.

Create symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes alone and with partners, emphasizing positive and negative spaces.

Explore movement qualities of dynamics: sustain, suspend, swing, percussive, vibratory, and collapse.

Collaborate with a partner (sharing weight, mirroring, leading, copying) to create and explore movement possibilities.

Formulate and sequence locomotor and non-locomotor movement for levels in space using directions and pathways.

Create a sequence with a beginning, middle, and end with or without rhythmic accompaniment.

Understand how dance is used in various cultures as a celebration of life experiences and community events.

Understand how dance has been used as a form of communication throughout history.

Recognize components of dance forms to include costume, music, formation, movement, and gender.

Respond to dance by expressing an understanding of content through writing, music, drama, painting, sculpting, etc.

Employ the use of the art disciplines to comment or reflect on current issues as well as historical issues.

Articulate similarities of the elements of the dance in relation to elements of other arts disciplines.