Standard set
Dance: Grade 4
Standards
Showing 28 of 28 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 and describe 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 a combination of non-locomotor and locomotor skills in short movement patterns.
1.3
Learning Expectation
Transfer spatial patterns from the visual to the kinesthetic when working with a partner.
1.4
Learning Expectation
Develop a variety of rhythmic patterns and transfer to the kinesthetic.
1.5
Learning Expectation
Design and perform a variety of individual to group spatial relationships.
1.6
Learning Expectation
Memorize, reproduce and perform short dances.
2.1
Learning Expectation
Create sequences or simple dances that demonstrate repetition.
2.2
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate the following partner skills: giving and taking weight.
2.3
Learning Expectation
Categorize and compare the choreographic elements of space, time and energy.
2.4
Learning Expectation
Choreograph movement that demonstrates the structures or forms of AB, ABA, canon, and call and response.
2.5
Learning Expectation
Describe and reproduce the choreographic structure of a dance viewed in class, in the theatre, or on video/DVD.
3.1
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate the difference between pantomiming and creating abstract meaning through dance movement.
3.2
Learning Expectation
Create a dance that successfully communicates a chosen theme and teach to another dance student.
4.1
Learning Expectation
Establish and utilize aesthetic criteria for evaluation of dance.
5.1
Learning Expectation
Perform and compare folk and social dances from various cultures and historical periods.
5.2
Learning Expectation
Explain how dance is a reflection of its culture.
6.1
Learning Expectation
Describe how muscles relate to dance.
6.2
Learning Expectation
Design a health plan that will enhance one's ability to dance.
6.3
Learning Expectation
Explain how dance has improved one's personal health and wellness.
7.1
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate how dance and other art forms share the same themes and concepts.
7.2
Learning Expectation
Examine the connections between dance and other academic disciplines.
Framework metadata
- Source document
- Dance Curriculum Standards (4th Grade) (2006)
- License
- CC BY 3.0 US
- Normalized subject
- The Arts