Level 3
Developing Practical Knowledge in Dance (PK)
Students will explore through movement, combine, and contrast the dance elements of body awareness, space, time, energy, and relationships.
Developing Ideas in Dance (DI)
Students will select, combine, and use elements of dance to develop ideas.
Communicating and Interpreting in Dance (CI)
Students will present dance and respond to their own and others' dance works within their school communities.
Understanding Dance in Context (UC)
Students will explore and describe how dance is used for different purposes in a variety of cultures.
Learning Examples
- Identify and share the ways people greet each other in different cultures.
Find out about and describe a dance used within a welcoming ceremony, and
learn and present it as a greeting for visitors. Create original dances
of welcome and present them to others. (UC, CI, DI)
- Move in different directions and levels with different body shapes and
pathways. From a selection of movements, make a dance about arriving and
leaving. Share the dance with others. (PK, DI, CI)
- Combine movements (e.g., leaping, rolling, spiralling) to achieve contrasts
in speed, level, and energy. Create contrasting movement sequences to share
with others. Identify and describe images suggested by others' movement
sequences and make a list of words to describe these movements. (PK, DI,
CI)
- View a dance performance and describe what the dance is about, what its
purpose is, and how movements and groupings are used to convey its meaning
and purpose. Identify and record the images suggested by the dance. (CI,
UC)
- Explore matching and contrasting movements with a partner, and create
a dance on the theme of being the same and being different. Present the
dance to others, who may comment on how the theme is developed in it. (PK,
DI, CI)
- Identify, view, and talk about one or more dances used to celebrate cultural
occasions (e.g., the dragon dance at Chinese New Year, the English morris
dance on May Day). Select, learn about, rehearse, and present an appropriate
dance to contribute to the celebration of a particular cultural occasion
in the school or local community. (UC, CI)
- Suggest through movement how an electric circuit works. Investigate how
energy can be transferred from one body part to another or from one person
to another. Using these experiences, develop a group sequence that shows
how movement can be passed through an individual body and then on to others
in a complete circuit. (PK, DI)
- Investigate the who, what, when, why, where, and how of social dance gatherings
in a variety of cultures (e.g., barn dances, ceilidhs, balls, corroborees).
Select a particular social dance gathering and learn dances appropriate
to it. Using the dance vocabulary of one of these dances, choreograph an
original class dance. Present the dance to others at a school or community
social dance evening. (UC, PK, DI, CI)
- Explore the ways in which a simple prop (e.g., a stick, streamer, fabric)
can provide an extension to the body by making shapes, lines, and pathways
while the body is standing still or moving. (PK)
- View videos of the opening ceremonies of the Olympic and Commonwealth games. Talk about the dances in each ceremony and describe how they are used to promote the spirit of the event and to reflect the identity of the host country. (UC)
