LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Goal 2

The learner will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

Objective 2.04

Improvise, create, and perform dances based on own ideas and concepts from other sources.

Resources aligned to this objective

Lesson plans on the web

Dancing winds
This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, introduces the expanding and condensing properties of air masses and the unequal heating of the Earth as the force behind the wind. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science and Dance Arts Education)
Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Sphere's density dance
This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, focuses on the structure of the earth's atmosphere and relates the concepts of layering, air density, and particles directly to dance concepts of level, kinesphere, and shape. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science and Dance Arts Education)
Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts