Elementary Dance Curriculum
This guide represents a collaborative effort of teachers and dance specialists from several school districts across the Puget Sound Region. It's purpose is to provide a bare-bones working model for the K-5 level, based on current Washington State Standards, for the Arts and the Dance Framework from O.S.P.I. supported by both the Washington State Arts Commission and the Washington Alliance for Better Schools. This manual exists as a model for districts throughout the state for use in developing and implementing standards based Dance and Creative Movement curriculum for the non-specialist elementary classroom teacher (K-5)
The Organization of the Curriculum Model
Dance Strand |
Grades K-1 |
Grades 2-3 |
Grades 4-5 |
- The BrainDance (for all grade levels)
- Cooling Down (for all grade levels)
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Space
(self and general space, level, directions, pathways, relationships, focus, shape) |
• Move Safely in Space
• Basic Move and Freeze
• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
• Shrinking Space |
• Move and Freeze Shadowing
• Level Boogie
• Sculpture Museum
• The Sculptor and the Clay |
• Opposites
• Shapes to Pathways
• Diamond Shadowing |
Time
(fast, slow, beat, rhythm) |
• Tempo Tantrum
• Paint with Your Body |
• Count Control
• Body Part Dance |
• Making Machines
• World Rhythms |
Energy
(sharp, smooth, strong, light, free, bound) |
• Smooth and Sharp, Sounds and Moves
• Popping Plastic |
• Energy Diamond
• Volcano |
• Rocket Ship
• Negative Space Shapes |
Movement
(locomotor, nonlocomotor) |
• Magical Movement
• Traveling Tribes
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• Half and Half
• Follow the Leader |
• 8 Count Movement Phrases
• Add-On Dance |
Choreography
(repetition, form, theme) |
• Personal Expression
• Enter and Exit
• Beginning, Middle, and End Dances |
• Word Cards (ABA)
• Movement Conversations |
• Cinquain
• ABA Dances |
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