Standard set
Dance: Grade K
Standards
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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, and turning.
1.3
Learning Expectation
Practice 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, and twisted) at low, middle and high levels.
1.6
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate movements in straight and curved pathways.
1.7
Learning Expectation
Identify selected individual body parts.
1.8
Learning Expectation
Explore selected qualities of energy in movement (smooth, sharp, vibratory and swinging).
1.9
Learning Expectation
Move to a steady beat.
1.10
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate a basic understanding of spatial relationships between body parts (i.e., beside, between, over, under, together and apart).
2.1
Learning Expectation
Recognize the beginning, middle, and ending of a movement sequence.
2.2
Learning Expectation
Demonstrate the following partner skills: copying, leading and following.
2.3
Learning Expectation
Respond in movement to stories and music.
3.1
Learning Expectation
Observe how dance is different from other forms of human movement (such as sports or everyday gestures).
3.2
Learning Expectation
Create and share one's own dances (short movement studies) with peers.
3.3
Learning Expectation
Recognize appropriate audience behavior for informal classroom dance performances.
4.1
Learning Expectation
Explore a solution to a given movement problem.
4.2
Learning Expectation
Observe and describe dances.
5.1
Learning Expectation
Participate in a folk dance from a given culture.
5.2
Learning Expectation
Recognize and explore how people use dance as a part of ceremonies.
6.1
Learning Expectation
Discuss healthy practices.
7.1
Learning Expectation
Explore ways in which the same idea can be expressed in dance and in one other art form.
7.2
Learning Expectation
Explore the connection between dance and one other academic discipline.
Framework metadata
- Source document
- Dance Curriculum Standards (Kindergarten) (2006)
- License
- CC BY 3.0 US
- Normalized subject
- The Arts