Fine Arts: Dance (3rd Grade)

Performing (PR)

Creating (CR)

Responding (RE)

Connecting (CN)

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Organize and develop artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Construct meaningful interpretations of artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical contexts to deepen understanding.

Identify and demonstrate movements initiated by distal ends (fingers/toes). Apply constructive feedback from teacher.

Introduce an awareness of body alignment and core support while executing body shapes and movement characteristics in a dance sequence.

Move safely in a variety of spatial relationships and formations with other dancers, sharing and maintaining personal space while exploring levels, directions, and pathway designs.

Identifies foods that are beneficial for before and after physical activity.

Present three-dimensional shapes with positive and negative space. Perform movement sequences in and through space with intentionality and focus.

Fulfill specified duration of time with improvised locomotor and non-locomotor movements. Differentiate between "in time" and "out of time" to music. Perform movements that are the same or of a different tern i to accompaniment.

Change use of energy and dynamics by modifying movements and applying specific characteristics to heighten the effect of their intent.

Identify the main areas of a performance space using production terminology (i.e., stage directions).

Explore simple production elements (e.g., costumes, props, music, scenery, lighting, media) for a dance performed for an audience in a designated performance space.

Experiment with a variety of self-selected stimuli (e.g., music/sound, text, objects, images, notation, observed dance, experiences) for movement.

Explore manipulations of the elements of dance as tools to find a solution to a movement problem.

Identify and experiment with choreographic devices to create simple movement patterns and dance structures (e.g., AB, ABA, theme and development).

Develop a dance phrase that expresses and communicates an idea or feeling. Discuss the effect of the movement choices.

Identify a movement pattern that creates a theme in a dance work.

Demonstrate and explain how one dance genre is different from another or how one cultural movement practice is different from another.

Select specific context cues from movement. Use dance vocabulary to explain how they relate to the main idea of the dance.

Identify dance movements from different genres, styles, or cultures. Using dance vocabulary, describe ways in which they are alike and different.

Compare the relationships expressed in a dance to relationships with others. Explain how they are the same or different.

Observe a dance that communicates a perspective about a topic or event. Identify and explore key aspects through movement. Share findings through oral, written, or movement forms. Discuss how the findings deepen understanding of the topic/event.

Find a relationship between a movement in a dance and the culture, society, or community from which the dance is derived. Explain what the movements communicate about the key aspects of the culture, society, or community.