Standard set
Dance: Grade 1
Standards
Showing 32 of 32 standards.
1.0
Standard
Elements and Skills - Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.
2.0
Standard
Choreography - Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
3.0
Standard
Creativity and Communication - Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.
4.0
Standard
Criticism - Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.
5.0
Standard
Cultural/Historical - Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.
6.0
Standard
Health - Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.
7.0
Standard
Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.
1.1
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate non-locomotor movements such as bend, twist, stretch, and swing.
1.2
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate eight basic locomotor movements (walk, run, hop, jump, leap, gallop, slide and skip) traveling forward, backward, sideward, diagonally, and turning.
1.3
Learning Expectation
Explore movement in personal and general space.
1.4
Learning Expectation
Explore personal space (far-reach, mid-reach and near-reach).
1.5
Learning Expectation
Create a variety of body shapes (straight, angular, curved, twisted) at low, middle and high levels.
1.6
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate movements in straight and curved pathways.
1.7
Learning Expectation
Identify and move individual body parts.
1.8
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness in stillness and movement.
1.9
Learning Expectation
Explore the qualities of energy through movement (smooth, sharp, free, bound, strong, light, vibratory and swinging).
1.10
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate moving to a steady beat and explore responding to changes in tempo.
1.11
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate a basic understanding of spatial relationships (body part to body part and individual to individual); i.e., beside, between, over, under, together and apart.
2.1
Learning Expectation
Use improvisation to explore and invent a sequence showing a beginning, middle, and end.
2.2
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate the following partner skills: copying, leading and following, and mirroring.
2.3
Learning Expectation
Show the ability to respond in movement to stories, poems, artworks and music.
3.1
Learning Expectation
Explain how dance is different from other forms of human movement (such as sports or everyday gestures).
3.2
Learning Expectation
Present one's dance to peers and explain its meaning.
3.3
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior for dance performances.
4.1
Learning Expectation
Explore multiple solutions to a given movement problem.
4.2
Learning Expectation
Observe dances and identify similarities and differences.
5.1
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate a folk dance from a culture.
5.2
Learning Expectation
Identify one way in which people have used dance throughout history as a part of a ceremony.
6.1
Learning Expectation
Identify the basic parts of the skeleton.
6.2
Learning Expectation
Identify healthy practices (such as nutrition and safety) that enhance the ability to dance.
7.1
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate how the same idea can be expressed in dance and in one other art form
7.2
Learning Expectation
Explore the connections between dance and a minimum of two other academic disciplines.
Framework metadata
- Source document
- Dance Curriculum Standards (1st Grade) (2006)
- License
- CC BY 3.0 US
- Normalized subject
- The Arts