Dance: Grade 3

Creating

Performing

Responding

Connecting

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and works.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and works.

Refine and complete artistic works.

Analyze, interpret, and select artistic works for presentation

Develop and refine artistic works for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic works.

Identify and analyze artistic works.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic works.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic works.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make artistic works.

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

Experiment with a variety of student chosen stimuli (music/sound, text, objects, images, notation, observed dance, experiences) for movement.

Explore a given movement problem. Select and demonstrate a solution with teacher guidance.

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

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

Revise movement choices in response to feedback to improve a short dance study. Describe the differences the changes made in the movements.

Depict directions or spatial pathways in a dance phrase by drawing a picture map or using a symbol.

Judge spaces as distance traveled and use space three-dimensionally. Demonstrate 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 time orientation to accompaniment. Use metric and kinesthetic phrasing.

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 time orientation to accompaniment. Use metric and kinesthetic phrasing.

Replicate body shapes, movement characteristics, and movement patterns in a dance sequence with awareness of body alignment and core support.

Adjust body-use to coordinate with a partner or other dancers to safely change levels, directions, and pathway designs.

Recall movement sequences with a partner or in group dance activities. Apply constructive feedback from teacher and self-check to improve dance skills.

Identify the main areas of a performance space using production terminology (for example, stage right, stage left, center stage, upstage, and downstage).

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

Find a movement pattern that creates a movement phrase 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. Explain how they relate to the main idea of the dance using basic dance terminology.

Identify dance movements from specific genres, styles, or cultures. Using basic dance terminology, compare and contrast characteristic movements from these dances.

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

Research a question about a key aspect of a dance that communicates a perspective about an issue or event. Explore the key aspect through movement. Share movements and describe how the movements help to remember or discover new qualities in these key aspects. Communicate the new learning in oral, written, or movement form.

Find and discuss relationships between movement in a dance from a culture, society, or community and the culture from which the dance is derived.