Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Music Movement

Subject Area

Arts Education
Physical Education

Grade(s)

1

Overview

The students will move to the music based on its beat, words, tune, and other variables.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

    Physical Education (2019) Grade(s): 1

    PE19.1.1.4

    Combine locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative skills in rhythmic activities.

    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 1 - Dance

    AE17.D.1.1

    Respond with movement to a variety of prompts.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.D.1.1

    Vocabulary

    • Prompts
    • elements of dance
    • choreography
    • structure
    • content and inspiration for movement
    • improvisation
    • dance phrase
    • feedback and revision
    • notation

    Essential Questions

    EU: Choreographers use a variety of sources as inspiration and transform concepts and ideas into movement for artistic expression.
    EQ: Where do choreographers get ideas for dances?

    Skills Examples

    • Create movement based on music/ sound, artwork or tactile prompts.
    • Demonstrate a leap in a different direction, a turn on a different level or a run in different timing.
    • Observe a dance and discuss how it began (low level in stillness), what happened in the middle (became fast) and how it ended (dancer exit).
    • Discover how movements and elements can change the emotion of a dance, such as slow and curved movements can express sadness.
    • Perform a dance in different ways, changing the elements of the movement.
    • Create a personal key of symbols for movements (i.e., Jump ↑, turn ⟲, bend ↶).

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 1 - Dance

    AE17.D.1.2

    Experiment with changing a movement, utilizing the elements of dance.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.D.1.2

    Vocabulary

    • Prompts
    • elements of dance
    • choreography
    • structure
    • content and inspiration for movement
    • improvisation
    • dance phrase
    • feedback and revision
    • notation

    Essential Questions

    EU: Choreographers use a variety of sources as inspiration and transform concepts and ideas into movement for artistic expression.
    EQ: Where do choreographers get ideas for dances?

    Skills Examples

    • Create movement based on music/ sound, artwork or tactile prompts.
    • Demonstrate a leap in a different direction, a turn on a different level or a run in different timing.
    • Observe a dance and discuss how it began (low level in stillness), what happened in the middle (became fast) and how it ended (dancer exit).
    • Discover how movements and elements can change the emotion of a dance, such as slow and curved movements can express sadness.
    • Perform a dance in different ways, changing the elements of the movement.
    • Create a personal key of symbols for movements (i.e., Jump ↑, turn ⟲, bend ↶).

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
    Link to Resource

    CR Resource Type

    Lesson/Unit Plan

    Resource Provider

    Teacher.org
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    License Type

    Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
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