Dance: Grade K

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.

Respond to a variety of stimuli (music/sound, text, objects, images, symbols, observed dance) using movement.

Explore different ways to use basic locomotor and non-locomotor movements by changing one or more of the elements of dance.

Improvise dance that has a beginning, middle, and end.

Express an idea, feeling, or image, through improvised movement moving alone, then with a partner.

Apply suggestions for changing movement through guided improvisational experiences.

Depict a dance movement by drawing a picture or using a symbol.

Make still and moving body shapes that show lines (for example, straight, bent, and curved), changes levels, and vary in size (large/small). Join with others to make a circle formation and work with others to change its dimensions.

Demonstrate tempo contrasts with movements that match to tempo of sound stimuli.

Identify and apply different characteristic s to movements (for example, slow, smooth, or wavy).

Demonstrate same-side and cross-body locomotor and non-locomotor movements, body patterning movements, and body shapes.

Move safely in general space and start and stop on cue during activities, group formations, and creative explorations while maintaining personal space.

Move body parts in relation to other body parts and repeat and recall movements upon request.

Dance for and with others in a designated space.

Select a prop to use as part of a dance.

Find a movement that repeats in a dance.

Demonstrate or describe observed or performed dance movements

Observe movement and describe it using simple dance terminology.

Find a movement that was noticed in a dance. Demonstrate the movement that was noticed and explain why it attracted attention.

Find an experience expressed or portrayed in a dance that relates to a familiar experience. Identify the movements that communicate this experience.

Describe and express through movement something of interest about a piece of visual art. Discuss questions concerning the artwork.

Describe or demonstrate the movements in a dance that was watched or performed.