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III. Analyze
- 4th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Students learn two social dances, such as the twist and the waltz, and discuss the similarities and differences in terms of one of the elements of dance.
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III. Analyze
- 4th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Demonstrate the ability to create a movement sentence and change same using selected elements of dance. Give reasons for choices made.
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III. Analyze
- 4th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Demonstrate the ability to create a dance study to present to peers, then analyze and discuss the process used.
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III. Analyze
- 4th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Students attend a dance concert or are participants in a children's concert. Discuss the experience.
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III. Analyze
- 4th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Select a human movement associated with a favorite sport or familiar work, execute the movement, and then change the movement so that it becomes dance-like.
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III. Analyze
- 4th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Demonstrate the ability to design a movement study of basic locomotor movements, and combinations of locomotor movements using movement elements.
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II. Create
- 4th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Students will be introduced to the use of a camera to record movement and given an explanation of the use of tracking.
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II. Create
- 4th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Demonstrate the ability to design a movement sequence using factors of the elements of time, space, and force.
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II. Create
- 4th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Explore, improvise, discover, and invent movement to solve movement problems.
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II. Create
- 4th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Identify a movement concept and create a dance study.
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II. Create
- 4th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
With musical accompaniment, demonstrate the ability to make a dance sentence that has beginning, middle, and end in personal and general spaces using axial and…
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I. Perform
- 4th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Mirror movement of a partner.
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I. Perform
- 4th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Using locomotor movements, demonstrate change of direction working with a partner holding one hand; two hands when the movement allows. Students demonstrate t…
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I. Perform
- 4th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Dance
Isolate body parts. Continue working with single focus. Introduce multi-focus.