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442 Modern dance lesson plans Lesson Plans
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- 7th
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Students explore spatial awareness and then choreograph a dance. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students create dances by manipulating shapes with their bodies. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students move across a space practicing a dance as they work on focus and energy. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students develop an understanding of how African culture impacted modern dance in the United States. Full Review »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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 »
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- 1st - 5th
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Students create short movement studies using modern dance as a model of dance genre in which movement is sculpted in time, space and with a variety of qualities. This lesson emphasizes the dances of Mexico and lasts about 4 days. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students conclude the semester with an individual movement study utilizing basic elements of dance and choreography previously covered in class. They will choose from three choreographic prompts presented a few days before giving them class time to begin their process. Full Review »
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