ARTSEDGE: 5-8 Dance

Related Resources:

Dancing A Christmas Carol

Dancing through Poetry

Systems of the Body: Movement and Choreography

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).

View the full text of the standards.

For reprint permissions, visit MENC.

Icon Legend:

		= part of the current spotlight

		= opens in a new window

Dance

View Supporting Text

Content Standard 7

Making connections between dance and other disciplines

Achievement Standard

Students create a project that reveals similarities and differences between the arts
Students cite examples of concepts used in dance and another discipline outside the arts (such as balance, shape, and pattern)
Students observe the same dance both live and recorded on video; compare and contrast the aesthetic impact of the two observations

Next Content Standard