ARTSEDGE: K-4 Dance

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Targeted Standards:

National Standards for Arts Education:

The standards outline what every K-12 student should know and be able to do in the arts. The standards were developed by the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations, through a grant administered by The National Association for Music Education (MENC).

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Content Standard 4

Applying and demonstrating critical and creative thinking skills in dance

Achievement Standard

Students explore, discover, and realize multiple solutions to a given movement problem; choose their favorite solution and discuss the reasons for that choice
Students observe two dances and discuss how they are similar and different in terms of one of the elements of dance by observing body shapes, levels, pathways

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