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Using the State Curriculum: Dance, Grade K

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Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education:

Dance:

Standard 1.0 Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education

Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, perform, and respond to dance.

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Objectives
  1. Identify and demonstrate basic locomotor and non-locomotor movements that communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings
  2. Combine selected characteristics of the elements of dance, such as body parts and positions, shapes, levels, directions, general and personal space, energy, and tempo, and use sensory stimuli to create movement
Objectives
  1. Demonstrate locomotor and non-locomotor movements using kinesthetic awareness
  2. Demonstrate balance and timing in directed movement experiences
  3. Associate selected dance movements with specific dance genres
  4. Execute memorized movement phrases

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  • 3. Respond to dance through observation, experience, and analysis
Objectives
  1. Apply the language of dance to observed movement from different genres
  2. Select specific movements and describe their purposes

August 5, 2008