Why dance?

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Dance Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

• Goal 3: The learner will understand that dance can create and communicate meaning.
  • Objective 3.01: Show ideas, feelings, and stories through dance movement.
  • Objective 3.02: Discuss various dance movement experiences.
• Goal 7: The learner will make connections between dance and other content areas.
  • Objective 7.01: Identify connections between dance and at least two other content areas.

Grade 2

• Goal 3: The learner will understand that dance can create and communicate meaning.
  • Objective 3.01: Identify and demonstrate ideas, feelings, and stories through movement or gestures.
• Goal 7: The learner will make connections between dance and other content areas.
  • Objective 7.01: Explain connections between dance and at least three other content areas.

Grade 3

• Goal 3: The learner will understand that dance can create and communicate meaning.
  • Objective 3.01: Create movements to express ideas, feelings, or stories.
• Goal 7: The learner will make connections between dance and other content areas.
  • Objective 7.01: Investigate connections between dance and other content areas.

Grade 4

• Goal 7: The learner will make connections between dance and other content areas.
  • Objective 7.02: Create a dance sequence that demonstrates understanding of a concept or idea from another content area.

Kindergarten

• Goal 3: The learner will understand that dance can create and communicate meaning.
  • Objective 3.01: Express ideas, feelings, and stories through dance movement.
  • Objective 3.02: Respond to dance movement experiences in a variety of ways.
• Goal 7: The learner will make connections between dance and other content areas.
  • Objective 7.01: Identify connections between dance and one other content area.

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.02: Use various techniques to create visual effects using texture.
• Goal 7: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
  • Objective 7.01: Uses reading, writing and math in the creation of art.

Grade 2

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.05: Depict self and others in a variety of real and imaginary situations.

Grade 3

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.07: Depict self and others in a variety of real and imaginary situations with increasing detail.
• Goal 7: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
  • Objective 7.01: Begin to acknowledge similarities among all the arts including vocabulary, concepts, and use of composition.

Grade 4

• Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
  • Objective 4.01: Create extended visual narratives based on one's own life and experiences.
• Goal 7: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
  • Objective 7.01: Recognize that in a particular place or time, shared beliefs or knowledge will affect the ideas, issues or themes in all disciplines.

Kindergarten

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.08: Create original pictures of self, others, animals and objects.
• Goal 7: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
  • Objective 7.01: Make use of commonalties in the subject matter of visual arts and other disciplines.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.02: Use words that name characters and settings (who, where) and words that tell action and events (what happened, what did ___ do) in simple texts.
  • Objective 4.03: Use specific words to name and tell action in oral and written language (e.g., using words such as frog and toad when discussing an expository text).

Grade 2

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.08: Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization.

Grade 3

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.07: Compose a variety of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama selections using self-selected topics and forms (e.g., poems, simple narratives, short reports, learning logs, letters, notes, directions, instructions).

Grade 4

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.07: Compose fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using self-selected and assigned topics and forms (e.g., personal and imaginative narratives, research reports, diaries, journals, logs, rules, instructions).

Kindergarten

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.02: Use words that name and words that tell action in a variety of simple texts (e.g., oral retelling, written stories, lists, journal entries of personal experiences).
  • Objective 4.03: Use words that describe color, size, and location in a variety of texts: e.g., oral retelling, written stories, lists, journal entries of personal experiences.