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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students make choices about dance elements and organize them in expressive ways. They plan and present dance works for a familiar audience. They identify dance elements in their and classmates work. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
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Students explore dance activities from three different Spanish speaking countries. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 5th
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Students perform a folk dance and discuss its cultural and historical meanings. They review the dance and perform it, beginning with four individuals who dance with confidence right from the start. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students explore the traditional dances of various immigrants into the United States. While attending a cultural event from a specific immigrant group, students observe cultural dances. They interview members of the ethnic group and learn the dance. Pupils create a formal presentation to be given in class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th
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Students examine various dances focused on issues faced by society. While viewing, they identify and analyze the movements and how they relate to the sociocultural issues. To complete the lesson, they develop their own dance with costumes describing their own feelings about one issue. Full Review »
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- 12th
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Students investigate Ekon kon or Djola or Jola (dance), a noncompetitive, communal dance performed by the Djola people from the Sene-Gambia region of West Africa. They listen to a lecture by the teacher about the West African cultures that include this dance. The lesson includes many resources for the teacher as well as explicit directions for performing the dance. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 12th
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Students explore West African Ku Ku dance. As a class, learners discuss the influence African dances have on the United Sates of today, as well as the history of the dance. Students observe and participate in a dance demonstration. They practice movement patterns and write movement vocabulary in their journals. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to the various career opportunities in dance. Using the internet, they research the educational requirements and starting salaries. They write a paper on the information they collected and share their statistics with the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - 12th
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Students create a small group dance that addresses free-flowing techniques and transitions for in-class performance. This lesson meets state arts standards and includes rubric for assessment. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students evaluate a dance and write sentences that describes an emotion or action that is associated with it after watching an example of a ballet. They observe how ballet expresses an emotion without words. They design a dance project that demonstrates an emotion or action. Full Review »
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