Learning Links
Sports / Effort / Body Language / Coordination / Transportation / Dance / Mime / Migration / Improvisation / Patterns / Waves / Gravity / Dynamics / Trajectory
Demonstrators should be read from top to bottom, but need not be demonstrated sequentially.
Elementary Demonstrators
• Demonstrate movement elements (e.g., locomotor and nonlocomotor).
• Express ideas/emotions through movement (e.g., body awareness, space awareness, time, force, technique, relationship).
• Demonstrate combined locomotor and nonlocomotor movement patterns.
• Analyze ideas or emotions expressed through a movement sequence using basic terms.
• Create a movement sequence with a beginning, middle, and end.
Middle School Demonstrators
• Demonstrate combined movement sequences that express an idea or emotion.
• Analyze a movement sequence.
• Create a complex movement sequence with a beginning, middle, and end.
High School Demonstrators
• Analyze the similarities and differences in a variety of dance forms (e.g., ballet, modern, jazz, ethnic, folk, social, and square) among diverse cultures.
• Choreograph a movement sequence that expresses ideas or emotions.
• Create and evaluate a dance performance using appropriate technical, performance, and thematic elements.
Sample Teaching/Assessment Strategies
Community-Based Instruction: Field Studies / Continuous Progress Assessment: Performance Events/Exhibitions / Graphic Organizers: Storyboard, Graphic Representations / Problem Solving: Creative Problem Solving, Role-play / Technology/Tools: Interactive Video, Games
These sample strategies offer ideas and are not meant to limit teacher resourcefulness. More strategies are found in the resource section.
Ideas for Incorporating Community Resources
• Attend community theatre, dance studios, clogging, and square dance performances.
• Interview sports participants about their use of movement.
• Discuss movement patterns with transportation planners, engineers, soil conversation planners, movers, and real estate agents.
Core Concept - Movement
Sample Elementary Activities
• Express emotions non-verbally through body language and facial expression (mime). Other students verbally express how they think you feel. OE, P
• Using clay, construct a sculpture of a person engaged in dance or gymnastic act", making sure figure is balanced. PE, P
• Interpret a work of art through movement. PE, P
• Select and read an account of a sporting event. Create a movement sequence that portrays the event. P
• Describe the growth of a plant, the blooming of its flower, and seed dispersal through a movement sequence. PE, OE, P
Sample Middle School Activities
• Pantomime a movement sequence to express your feelings about an event. PE, OE
• Play charades using historical events as your themes. PE
• Observe the non-verbal behaviors of a small group in the cafeteria. Create a dialogue based on your observations. PE, OE
• View a dance performance that tells a story. Express your interpretation of the story in another media and from another culture. P
• Write a paragraph expressing a personal conflict with another person. Dramatize the conflict. PE, OE, P
Sample High School Activities
• Illustrate the concept of the four levels of protein organization through team/body movements with each team member representing one amino acid. PE, P
• Review the works of a single visual artist and interpret the artists style through movement. PE, OE, P
• Pantomime to a concert singly or in a group. After identification of the concept, analyze and critique the pantomime in terms of the completeness and accuracy of the representation. PE, P
• Create a machine sculpture using student bodies and body movement. PE