ALEX Classroom Resources

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7) Demonstrate movement and stillness using the basic elements of space, including line, shape, levels, and size.

Examples: Join with others to make a circle, then work with others to change it to a square.

Create a curved shape on a low level.

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11) Move safely in general space and start/stop on cue during activities, group formations, and creative explorations while maintaining personal space.

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7) Create movement and stillness using changing elements of space.

Example: Change body shapes, levels, and facings.

Move in straight, curved, and zigzag pathways.

Move with others to form straight lines and circles.

[ARTS] DAN (1) 11 :

11) Identify and explore personal space and general space within movement.

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2) Connect a variety of moments while manipulating the elements of dance through locomotor and non-locomotor movements.

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10) Demonstrate a range of locomotor and non-locomotor movements that alternate between personal space and general space.

Example: Skipping across the floor followed by skipping in place.

[ARTS] DAN (2) 11 :

11) Demonstrate safe movement in a variety of spatial relationships and formations with other dancers, sharing and maintaining personal space.

This activity includes four dance options, including exploring levels, pathways, space, and locomotor movement.  Students will create different shapes while exploring high, middle, and low levels.  They will identify and move through different pathways such as straight, curved, and zigzag.  They will practice moving safely through general space and kinesphere (self-space).  They will explore the eight basic locomotor movements - walking, running, hopping, skipping, jumping, galloping, leaping, and sliding.

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1) Differentiate between basic locomotor and non-locomotor movements.

Examples: Running, twisting, skipping, falling.

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4) Illustrate an idea, feeling, or image through improvised movement.

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16) Repeat, recall and respond to observed or performed dance movements.

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18) Select and demonstrate a movement in a dance and explain why it was chosen.

Example: Select a movement and explain what the movement may mean.

[ARTS] DAN (1) 7 :

7) Create movement and stillness using changing elements of space.

Example: Change body shapes, levels, and facings.

Move in straight, curved, and zigzag pathways.

Move with others to form straight lines and circles.

[ARTS] DAN (1) 9 :

9) Identify and demonstrate movement qualities.

Example: Bouncy, floppy, melting, or growing.

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18) Select and demonstrate several movements in a dance and explain why they were chosen.

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2) Connect a variety of moments while manipulating the elements of dance through locomotor and non-locomotor movements.

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8) Demonstrate movement on the accented beat in duple and triple meter.

Examples: Waltz, triplet, walking, or marching.

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15) Recognize dance movements that develop a pattern.

Example: Identify a movement that repeats within a phrase

In this lesson, students will learn about a range of dance styles from a video excerpt from the PBS KIDS series, PINKALICIOUS & PETERRIFIC™. The students will then use what they have learned as inspiration to make up their own dances. After warming up by dancing like robots, which the characters do in the video, children use creative movements to imitate animals, objects, and nature. After practicing their moves, students perform their dance in a class recital.

   View Standards     Standard(s): [ARTS] DAN (2) 1 :

1) Respond to movement with a variety of prompts and suggest additional sources for movement ideas.

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2) Connect a variety of moments while manipulating the elements of dance through locomotor and non-locomotor movements.

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3) Create a dance phrase with a main idea that has a clear beginning, middle, and end.

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7) Demonstrate clear directional movement that changes body shape, facings, or pathway in space.

Examples: Identify symmetrical and asymmetrical body shapes and examine relationships between body parts.

Differentiate between circling and turning as two separate ways of continuous directional change.

Students will draw their initials in upper case letters on paper and in the air. They will explore the pathways created by their initials while walking on the floor. They will identify the different types of lines created by the pathways. They will choreograph a three-part (beginning, middle, end) dance using their initials.