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Using the State Curriculum: Dance, Grade PK

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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 to communicate ideas and concepts
  2. Use improvisation to link two or more locomotor or non-locomotor movements
  3. Communicate ideas from stories, poems, or songs, using improvisation

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Objectives
  1. Communicate movement ideas using the elements of dance
  2. Demonstrate movement effects using repetition
  3. Use dance movement to tell stories

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Objectives
  1. Recognize how specific performance competencies, such as maintaining formation, maintaining personal space, entrance and exit, affect dance presentation
  2. Complete simple dances from beginning to end, following cues or models

August 5, 2008