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- Grade Range
- 4th - 5th
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Students discover and appreciate the history, characteristics, and significance of a specific dance style. They to pick a dance style that they are interested in and would like to research. 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 - 8th
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Students discuss dance elements and create a dance map. They choose a dance theme and incorporate movement into their dance maps and choreography. They also experiment with different types of music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students, depending on grade levels, participate in different activities. They focus on history for their activities. 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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- 8th
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Students investigate modern-dance choreographer Merce Cunningham's historically significant contribution to dance-making history. Specifically, students explore and practice Merce Cunningham's choreographic use of chance operations (probability), through kinesthetic and movement exploration. Full Review »
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- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students practice various American, UK, and world dances in this Dance lesson for the upper-elementary classroom. Emphasis is placed on the use of local professional dance instructors to supplement classroom activities and materials. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students work in groups in order to research a specific music era or dance style to share with the class. They have studied different music styles that are included in the lesson and now they have the choice to research one. There is a test included in this lesson for assessment purposes. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students demonstrate and define basic modern dance vocabulary. Identify and explore a range of stimuli to create a dance movement. Recognize and explain how the creative process in dance is influenced by personal movement styles. Full Review »
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