Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: As dance is experienced, all personal experiences, knowledge, and context are integrated and synthesized to interpret meaning.
EQ: How does dance deepen our understanding of ourselves, other knowledge, and events around us?
EQ: How does dance deepen our understanding of ourselves, other knowledge, and events around us?
Skills Examples
- Perform a dance to express the coming of spring.
- Utilize shapes and movements of the body to improvise the metamorphosis of caterpillar to butterfly.
- Utilize dance to show a plant's life cycle.
- Utilize shapes to create a setting for a story.
- Demonstrate the shapes and movement of a dance that was performed at school or in the community.
- Identify attributes of cultural dance that was taught in class.
Vocabulary
- Elements of Dance
- Connect dance to a familiar experience.
- Connect dance to an illustrated story.
- Elements of dance
- Cultural Movement Practices
- Dance Literacy
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
