AE17.D.2.16

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 2 - Dance

AE17.D.2.16
Observe or perform dance movements from a specific genre or culture and describe or demonstrate the movements.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
EQ: How is dance understood?

Skills Examples

Students create a call and response hand clapping rhythm and allow students to identify the pattern.
Students create a short phrase that includes a pattern of movement, then have other students identify the pattern.
View and/ or perform the Russian Troika, Charleston Bump, or Hoe Ana cultural dances.
Sauté to show surprise, melt to show sadness, leap to show happiness.
Identify the characters and describe the story in a narrative dance.
Draw a picture and write a caption in response to a live or recorded performance of dance.
Create short sentence that tell a story and have students improvise movement to describe the sentence.

Vocabulary

Identify recurring movement.
Create recurring movement.
Perform dance movements from a culture or genre and describe movement.
Identify meaning utilizing simple dance terminology.
Identify and explain movement to convey a theme or concept.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Aligned Learning Resources

Navajo Weaving

What Is Flamenco Dancing?

Dance Space

The Way West - The Oregon Trail: Theme and Variation Folk Dance

Design by Adaptive Theme