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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students choreograph a simple dance and have experience performing. students choose their own groups-usually of about 3-4, or assign the groups. Each group receives one dance card. They are to decide the order in which to do the steps. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students explore braiding and weaving through dance. They create their own braiding and weaving dance. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students use the Internet to research a Mexican folk dance known as "Los Viejos". They use their research to choreograph an example of the dance and perform it. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students develop an understanding of how African culture impacted modern dance in the United States. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students explore rhythm and quality of word and phrased to that of dance. They move to the rhythm of poetry. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 4th
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Students use a cardboard tubes as props as they create their own dance steps to express the emotions invoked in a portion of The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 4th
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Students use movement and dance in order to strengthen mathematical understanding of different geometric shapes. The movements are imitating the drawing of shapes and they pick one to make into a dance. Upon beginning the dance music can be added. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students listen to "Frank the Monster..." and discuss the dance map on the inside cover of the book. They create their own dance map using sentence strips to record the types of movement. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students investigate the meaning of different types of Native American music and dance. They determine how this music and dance has contributed to modern music and dance. They problem solve to determine the average length of the native songs and to chart the number of calories used in the native dances. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students discuss folk dances they know as well as reasons to dance. They work in small groups to cut illustrations of people dancing from magazines. Students create a collage of the pictures they find. They display their collages and discus the different reasons people are dancing. Students compare the illustrations with the list they generated at the beginning of class. Full Review »
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