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Navajo weaving

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A lesson plan for Grades 1–2 Dance Arts Education and Visual Arts Education

Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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Appropriate grades
1–2
Provider
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students explore various aspects of Native American cultures and Navajo weavings. Using the patterns on the Navajo Rugs, they devise dance patterns and perform a traveling pattern based on Navajo weavings.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Dance Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

  • Goal 3: The learner will understand that dance can create and communicate meaning.
  • Goal 4: The learner will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.
    • Objective 4.01: Demonstrate at least two different solutions to a given creative movement problem.
  • Goal 5: The learner will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

Grade 2

  • Goal 4: The learner will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.
    • Objective 4.01: Demonstrate three or more different solutions to a given dance movement problem.
  • Goal 5: The learner will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.
    • Objective 5.01: Describe the various roles of dance in communities and cultures.
    • Objective 5.02: Identify and demonstrate dances from various cultures and historical periods.

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

  • Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
    • Objective 5.01: Recognize that art from other times and cultures does not look the same.
    • Objective 5.02: Recognize that artwork from many cultures can be made of material that the student has experienced (wood, stone, paint, etc.)

Grade 2

  • Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
    • Objective 5.02: Identify selected characteristics of art from a particular culture.
    • Objective 5.04: Become aware of the ideas of time and history (what came before and after).
    • Objective 5.05: Begin to realize that there have been diverse cultures in the world and each culture has produced art.
    • Objective 5.06: Recognize selected works of art from various cultures.