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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students complete this assignment after several lessons where they have experienced creating their own choreography. It can be done as homework or an in class assignment. It could also be completed at a writing station during a station activity. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students research the required elements of the short programs in men's and women's figure skating. They analyze the physical requirements of each move and relate the types of muscles, bones, and joints required to perform them. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students explain choreographic principles, processes, and structures. They improvise to generate movement for choreography. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Higher Ed
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Students study how to use video clips to enrich lessons about opera and social issues. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students experience choreography that originated from the Postmodern movement. They utilize a chance method by rolling a dice to change the order of a dance sequence. Then they compare this method to traditional methods. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students analyze the techniques of modern dance choreography. They keep a journal as they observe the movement of people and animals. They use the movements to create a dance piece. 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 »
- Grade Range
- 10th
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Students participate in a lesson guided by an essential question: in what ways does choreographer, Mark Morris' work, "The Office," reflect Eastern-European traditional folk dance? During the lesson's first sessions, students physically learn two to three traditional folk dances from selected regions in Eastern Europe. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students investigate the beginning, middle, and ending of a story using a dance technique. They work with the teacher to create different dances to express the story. Students write out the dance in choreography to relate to the story. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students produce a short choreography composition. Specific guidelines and choice of music are provided. The grade/evaluation takes place in the form of video documentation and a teacher-created rubric. Full Review »

