Dance: Grade 4

Demonstrate a basic understanding of movement skills.

Demonstrate a problem-solving experience integrating kinesthetic awareness of movement.

Apply elements of dance to movement studies.

Compose, analyze, and compare movement with guided criteria.

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

Perceive and understand the diverse meaning, creation, and beauty of dance.

Translate the connections between dance, other disciplines, and everyday life.

Employ proper alignment in weight transfers while performing and creating movement.

Demonstrate anatomical knowledge of major body parts through arranging and creating axial movements with and without locomotor movements in various directions and pathways.

Use improvisational skills to problem-solve through assembling or sequencing movement and creating new movement.

Discuss and justify own movement choices and evaluate movement choices presented by others.

Explore one or more elements of dance simultaneously: space, time, shape and energy through improvisation.

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

Formulate and sequence movement that includes various energies, shapes, and transitions.

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

Relate to how dance is used in various cultures as a celebration of life experiences.

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

Understand the role of dance in Mississippi.

Perform dances to communicate personal meaning.

Develop self-awareness and confidence through dance.

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

Employ use of the arts in daily life.

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