Sphere's density dance
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2176/
A lesson plan for Grade 5 Science and Dance Arts Education
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 5
- Subjects
- arts (dance), science (environmental science), thinking skills (higher order thinking, information literacy, research skills), diverse learners (multiple intelligences), teaching methods (project-based learning)
- Provider
- The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
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In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students relate the science concepts of layering, air density, and particles directly to dance concepts such as level and shape.
Students will:
- relate their own personal body space to the concept of spheres—specifically the atmosphere;
- identify the three basic levels of space and relate them to the layers of the atmosphere;
- examine and experience the making of body shapes;
- use movement and dance as a means of communicating information;
- identify particles in space and air density; and
- explore the basic composition structures of motif and variation—rondo and canon.
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 assessment rubrics.
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 2.03: Demonstrate the ability to work alone and cooperatively in a small group during the choreographic process.
- 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 4.02: Examine multiple solutions to a dance movement problem and choose one solution based on given criteria.
- Objective 4.04: Select and utilize ways to evaluate dance.
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 3.03: Describe and analyze the formation of various types of clouds and discuss their relation to weather systems.
- Objective 3.04: Explain how global atmospheric movement patterns affect local weather.
- Objective 3.01: Investigate the water cycle including the processes of:
