AE17.D.1.20

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

AE17.D.1.20
Identify ideas for dance movements that demonstrate the big ideas of an illustrated story.

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?

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.

Design by Adaptive Theme