Dance: Grade 2

Elements and Skills - Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

Choreography - Students will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

Creativity and Communication - Students will understand dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

Criticism - Students will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

Cultural/Historical - Students will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

Health - Students will make connections between dance and healthful living.

Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.

Demonstrate non-locomotor movements using more refined motor skills such as flick, dab, wring, dodge, and carve.

Demonstrate and compare eight basic locomotor movements (walk, run, hop, jump, leap, gallop, slide, and skip) traveling forward, backward, sideward, diagonally, and turning.

Demonstrate the difference between personal and general space.

Compare far-reach, mid-reach and near-reach in personal space.

Create and perform a variety of body shapes (straight, angular, curved, and twisted) at low, middle and high levels.

Create movements in straight, curved, and zigzag pathways.

Create movement using individual body parts.

Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness, concentration and focus in stillness and movement.

Create and perform movement showing the qualities of energy (smooth, sharp, free, bound, strong, light, vibratory, and swinging).

Execute movement to different meters and changing tempos.

Demonstrate spatial relationships (body part to body part, individual to individual and individual to group); i.e., beside, between, over, under, together, and apart.

Create a movement sequence with a beginning, middle, and ending.

Compare and demonstrate the following partner skills: leading, following, shadowing, and mirroring.

Show the ability to respond in movement to stories, poems, artworks, music, world cultures, natural science, and math concepts.

Demonstrate how dance is different from other forms of human movement (such as sports and everyday gestures).

Present one's dance to peers and discuss its meaning.

Model and explain appropriate audience behavior for informal and formal dance performances.

Create and perform multiple solutions to a given movement problem.

Observe dances and discuss how they are similar and different in terms of specific elements of dance.

Discuss opinions about dances with peers in a supportive and constructive manner.

Demonstrate and compare folk dances from various cultures.

Describe ways in which people used dance throughout history as a part of rituals, ceremonies, and entertainment, and as a means of social expression.

Identify and name the parts of the skeleton relevant to dance.

Describe healthy practices that enhance the ability to dance.

Identify ways dance can improve one's general health and wellness.

Demonstrate and explain how the same idea can be expressed in dance and in one other art form.

Explore and demonstrate the connections between dance and three or more other academic disciplines.