Standard set
Dance: Grade 3
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
Identify the following underlying principles of movement: alignment, balance, initiation of movement, articulation of isolated body parts, weight shift, elevation and landing, and fall and recovery.
1.2
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate simple combinations of non-locomotor and locomotor movements (e.g., twisty walk, bursting leap, or floating run).
1.3
Learning Expectation
Transfer a spatial pattern from the visual to the kinesthetic.
1.4
Learning Expectation
Develop simple rhythmic patterns and transfer to the kinesthetic.
1.5
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate a range of energy/movement qualities.
1.6
Learning Expectation
Design and perform a variety of spatial relationships (body part to body part and individual to individual); i.e., beside, between, over, under, together, and apart.
1.7
Learning Expectation
Memorize and reproduce given short movement sequences.
2.1
Learning Expectation
Create sequences or simple dances that demonstrate a smooth transition from beginning to middle to ending.
2.2
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate the following partner skills: contrasting and complementary shapes.
2.3
Learning Expectation
Identify and describe the choreographic elements of space, time, and energy.
2.4
Learning Expectation
Choreograph movement that demonstrates the structures or forms of AB and ABA.
2.5
Learning Expectation
Recognize the choreographic structure of a dance viewed in class, in the theatre, or on video/DVD.
3.1
Learning Expectation
Recognize the difference between pantomiming and abstract dance movement.
3.2
Learning Expectation
Create a dance that successfully communicates a given theme.
3.3
Learning Expectation
Differentiate between appropriate audience behavior for formal and informal dance performances.
4.1
Learning Expectation
Compare multiple solutions to a given movement problem.
4.2
Learning Expectation
Observe dances and compare them in terms of the elements of dance (space, time, and energy).
4.3
Learning Expectation
Compare individual opinions about dances in a supportive and constructive way.
5.1
Learning Expectation
Perform folk and social dances from various cultures and periods.
5.2
Learning Expectation
Describe the basic evolution of a dance form and how it reflects its culture.
6.1
Learning Expectation
Identify the parts of the skeleton and explain how these parts work relevant to dance.
6.2
Learning Expectation
Explain and compare how healthy practices enhance the ability to dance.
6.3
Learning Expectation
Describe how dance can improve one's general health and wellness.
7.1
Learning Expectation
Examine how the same idea can be expressed in dance and in other art forms.
7.2
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate and explain the connections between dance and other academic disciplines.
Framework metadata
- Source document
- Dance Curriculum Standards (3rd Grade) (2006)
- License
- CC BY 3.0 US
- Normalized subject
- The Arts