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Using the State Curriculum: Dance, Grade PK

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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. Demonstrate selected 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, energy, fast and slow, and use sensory stimuli to create movement
Objectives
  1. Explore locomotor and non-locomotor movements using kinesthetic awareness
  2. Respond to feedback related to timing while executing locomotor and non-locomotor movements
  3. Perform and name selected dance movements
  4. Reproduce movement demonstrated by the teacher

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  • 3. Respond to dance through observation, experience, and analysis
Objectives
  1. Apply the language of dance to observed movement
  2. Explore the uses of dance movements

August 5, 2008