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- 6th - 8th
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Students demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students explore and experience jazz as a social dance form. They study how jazz was an important piece of African-American culture and how it developed. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students complete a unit of lessons on the definition of dance. They view videos of various dances, compare/contrast the dances viewed, categorize a list of words about dance on a handout, write journal responses, and perform dance movements. Full Review »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Kindergarten - 4th
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Students explore the elements of tempo, beat and rhythm. They create rhythm patterns and an original dance. In groups, students perform their phrases for their peers. As a class, they explore choreographic principles, processes and structures. 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
- 5th - 12th
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Students explore dance. They analyze and outline the movements of the dance "Roger de Coverly" from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Students choose music and choreograph a dance similar to "Roger de Coverly." They perform the dance. Students analyze dances on video that reflect similar dances of the time. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students engage in a lesson that is about the concept of shapes. They practice moves that are used to illustrate different types of shapes. Students participate in body movements that are focused around the directions of the body like anterior moves and posterior movements. Full Review »

