Dancing winds
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2178/
A lesson plan for Grade 5 Science and Dance Arts Education
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- Appropriate grades
- 5
- Subjects
- arts (dance), English language arts (writing), thinking skills (higher order thinking, information literacy, visual literacy), teaching methods (demonstrations and modeling)
- Provider
- The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
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In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students learn about the expanding and condensing properties of air masses and the unequal heating of Earth as the force behind the wind.
Students will:
- lead and follow in a mirroring exercise;
- demonstrate locomotor and axial movement that uses shaking and sustained energy;
- create meaning and relationships with body movement, shapes, and placement;
- relate shaking energy to rising, expanding air, and sustained energy to falling and condensing air;
- create a movement motif that demonstrates the movement characteristics of air masses and the wind;
- create variations on a movement motif; and
- create a sequence of movement that transitions between motif and variations in the ABA choreographic form.
ARTSEDGE provides detailed instructions for completing the lesson, a supply list, suggestions for assessment and extension activities, and links to related web resources, student handouts, and an assessment rubric.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Dance Arts Education (2001)
Grade 5
- Goal 1: The learner will identify and demonstrate elements and skills in dance.
- Objective 1.01: Apply and utilize kinesthetic awareness in development of movement skills and dance techniques.
- Objective 1.02: Combine the elements of space, time, and energy/dynamics to create dance sequences with a variety of themes and concepts.
- Objective 1.03: Observe and describe the dance elements in various dance movement studies using appropriate movement/dance vocabulary.
- Goal 2: The learner will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
- Objective 2.01: Use improvisation to create dance sequences.
- Objective 2.02: Identify and utilize transitions in dance sequences.
- Objective 2.04: Improvise, create, and perform dances based on own ideas and concepts from other sources.
- Objective 2.05: Identify and explore various compositional structures and/or forms of dance.
- Goal 3: The learner will understand that dance can create and communicate meaning.
- Objective 3.01: Create and perform movement sequences that convey meaning.
- Goal 4: The learner will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.
- Objective 4.03: Analyze a dance composition in terms of more than one element of dance.
- Goal 7: The learner will make connections between dance and other content areas.
- Objective 7.02: Create a dance project that integrates understanding of a concept or idea from another content area.
Science (2005)
Grade 5
- Goal 3: The learner will conduct investigations and use appropriate technology to build an understanding of weather and climate.
- Objective 3.01: Investigate the water cycle including the processes of:
- Evaporation.
- Condensation.
- Precipitation.
- Run-off.
- Objective 3.02: Discuss and determine how the following are affected by predictable patterns of weather:
- Temperature.
- Wind direction and speed.
- Precipitation.
- Cloud cover.
- Air pressure.
- Objective 3.04: Explain how global atmospheric movement patterns affect local weather.
- Objective 3.05: Compile and use weather data to establish a climate record and reveal any trends.
- Objective 3.06: Discuss and determine the influence of geography on weather and climate:
- Mountains.
- Sea breezes.
- Water bodies.
- Objective 3.01: Investigate the water cycle including the processes of:
