Dance: Grade 3

Creation and Performance

Dance Movement Skills

Responding

Connecting

Use choreographic principles, structures, and processes to create dances that communicate ideas, experiences, feelings, and images.

Understand how to use performance values (kinesthetic awareness, concentration, focus, and etiquette) to enhance dance performance.

Understand how to use movement skills in dance.

Use a variety of thinking skills to analyze and evaluate dance.

Understand cultural, historical, and interdisciplinary connections with dance.

Create simple dance sequences by combining dance phrases.

Use teacher-led improvisation to expand movement possibilities for creating dance sequences.

Use abstraction of everyday movement to create sequences that communicate feelings, ideas, and stories.

Use safe and respectful movement practices in the dance setting.

Understand how use of concentration enhances performance.

Use teacher and peer feedback to refine performance quality in dance.

Recognize beginning principles of dance technique, including rotation, elevation, and landing in dance movement.

Use transitions between multiple body shapes.

Exemplify dance quality in performing locomotor and non-locomotor (axial) movement.

Recall dance movement phrases containing rhythmic patterns in various meters.

Understand a variety of spatial designs and relationships used in dance.

Compare movement elements (body, space, time, energy) observed in dance.

Identify examples of movement skills and elements observed in dance from one's own and different cultures.

Exemplify how dance is used by various groups for artistic expression within the local community.

Exemplify connections between dance and concepts in other curricular areas.