Dance Arts Education and 21st Century Workplace Readiness Skills
(View Complete Item Description)Virginia’s dance arts instructional programs reinforce Virginia’s 21st Century Workplace Readiness Skills.
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Dance Arts SOL: Standard 9 Progression At-a-Glance
(View Complete Item Description)The purpose of this document is to highlight standard nine of the 2020 Dance Arts Standards of Learning. This standard in all grade levels relates connecting dance arts content, skills, and processes to career options, college opportunities, and the 21st Century workplace. Teachers and curriculum specialists can use this document to plan a sequence of instruction for grades K-12 that prepares students for career, college, and workplace connections in dance arts education.
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Dance Arts SOL: 5 Cs Alignment
(View Complete Item Description)The Dance Arts Standards of Learning (SOL) are intentionally and directly aligned with the skills outlined in the Profile of a Virginia Graduate. This document demonstrates conatins statements taken directly from the 2020 Dance Arts SOL document and re-organized to show alignment to the “5 Cs”.
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Examples of Careers in Dance
(View Complete Item Description)This document provides a list of dance-related career examples.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: K-2 Dance Exchange
(View Complete Item Description)The teacher can direct a short class performance of a dance of local, state, or national significance. The performance is recorded then sent to a similar class in another community, state, or part of the world. The exchange school will send a performance back. When students receive the recording from the other class, they can respond to what they “see, think, and wonder” about the work they have viewed.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Student Created Dance Video Tutorials
(View Complete Item Description)After learning about the elements of dance, various dance styles, dance technique, or a dance step, students plan and create their own dance video tutorial.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Dance History Comes to Life
(View Complete Item Description)After learning about various famous dancers and their contributions to dance history, students select one famous dancer to research more and create a multimedia presentation about their dancer.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 The Water Cycle in Motion
(View Complete Item Description)Students can use the water cycle (Science SOL 3.9) as inspiration for choreography.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Worldwide Dance Event
(View Complete Item Description)Participate in a local, state-wide, national, or worldwide dance event such as Dance for Kindness or National Dance Day. Students will learn the choreography and create videos of the performance. If possible, the teacher can connect with other dance groups who are also participating in the dance event and set up a video conference so that students can form deeper connections. For example, a dance teacher in Virginia can connect their students with a dance teacher’s class in Mexico. Students can also write letters to their peers around the world. Finally, the teacher, students, and other participants will submit their video submissions to the event coordinator so that they can make a worldwide dance montage.
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Digital Learning Integration: 6-8 Global Dance Collaboration
(View Complete Item Description)Collaborate with a dance class of the same age group from another country or location through video conferencing media.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 6-8 3-D Animation to Study Anatomy
(View Complete Item Description)Use digital applications to allow students to explore bone and muscle anatomy in interactive, three-dimensional views.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 6-8 Multimedia Dance Portfolios
(View Complete Item Description)Dancers document performances and creative processes with video, photos, and reflections of learning, then create digital portfolios to store, organize, maintain, and share their work with appropriate audiences and for auditions.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 9-12 Multimedia Summative Portfolios
(View Complete Item Description)Students include both process and product documentation as well as reflections of learning. The portfolio could take the form of a website, slidedeck, interactive PDF and more.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 9-12 Video Performances from Home
(View Complete Item Description)With the onset of the global Covid-19 pandemic, dancers and choreographers found themselves confined to their homes and unable to meet and work together in common spaces. Creative solutions for dance rehearsal and performance were developed over the months of quarantine as dance companies found ways for their members to collaborate in the virtual world. Dancers rehearsed at home and recorded their performances. Choreographers created and directed from afar, instead of in-person. These adjustments resulted in innovative solutions such as the use of the split-screen, remixing digital work, or the layering of video performances into one final product.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 9-12 Dance Vlog
(View Complete Item Description)Students create a dance vlog (video blog or video log) about various dance topics either assigned by the teacher or chosen by students.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 The Golden Ratio in Dance
(View Complete Item Description)Introduce students to the Fibonacci Series, also known as the Golden Ratio, a phenomenon in nature that has fascinated mathematicians, scientists, designers, and artists. Students will be invited to apply it to creating choreography. In the sequence, each number is the sum of the two numbers that precede it so that it begins 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, and so on forever.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Dance Marketing Communications
(View Complete Item Description)Students design, create, and publish dance marketing content such as a video advertisement, email marketing content, and/or community outreach content (a flyer, poster, or QR code) to promote their dance program or a dance performance.
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Instructional Plan: Strong Dancers
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will explore how two strong dancers create original choreography to express themselves and to share their cultural backgrounds. Students will compare and contrast two performances to determine how personality and culture can be reflected in movement. They will create short movement phrases to express some aspect of their own personality strength.
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Instructional Plan: About Face: How Dancers Use Space
(View Complete Item Description)A study of how the element of space is used in dance for fourth and fifth grade students. Students will explore how the dancer’s orientation and relationship to the space can be varied to create interest in choreography.
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Instructional Plan: Elements of Dance for Elementary Students
(View Complete Item Description)This unit plan contains seven lessons taking students through activities related to elements of dance skills and vocabulary.
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