School Improvement in Maryland

Using the State Curriculum: Dance, Grade K

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Creative Expression and Production:

Dance:

Standard 3.0 Creative Expression and Production

Students will demonstrate the ability to create and perform dance.

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Objectives
  1. Improvise movements in response to teacher and self-initiated stimuli
  2. Improvise variations on given movement patterns through manipulation of body and space
  3. Interpret ideas from stories, poems, or songs, using improvisation

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Objectives
  1. Communicate movement ideas using combinations of the elements of dance
  2. Demonstrate movement effects using repetition and sequence
  3. Use choreographic forms, such as narrative and theme and variation, to communicate ideas through dance movement

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Objectives
  1. Describe how awareness of space affects dance presentation
  2. Complete simple dances from beginning to end incorporating an awareness of space in relationship to other dancers and the performance area

August 5, 2008